7 Apr 2022

New Angolan network operator Africell announced today that it has launched commercial mobile services, bringing fresh competition to the country’s two established cellcos Unitel and Movicel. The start-up’s initial service... more

A new mobile network operator (MNO) has entered Papua New Guinea, doing so under the Vodafone banner. Local press outlet The Post Courier reports that Digitec Communications – part of... more

Digicel Group Holdings Limited (DGHL) has announced that Digicel Panama intends to apply for voluntary liquidation and withdraw from the Panamanian telecoms market. Describing the decision as ‘regrettable’, Digicel says... more

Smile Communications expanded its 4G LTE mobile broadband services to Zanzibar last month, with customers on the island now able to access maximum speeds of 50Mbps. ‘Following Smile Tanzania's recent... more

The Anti-Red Tape Authority (ARTA) of the Philippines has granted its approval for NOW Telecom’s application for an automatic extension of its mobile licence permits, paving the way for it... more

A rural 5G network sharing agreement involving Italian operators WINDTRE and Iliad has moved one step closer with the news that the firms have reached an agreement with trade unions... more

Lynk Global has announced the successful launch, deployment, and initial on-orbit check-out of Lynk Tower 1. The spacecraft is the company’s sixth ‘cell-tower-in-space’ satellite and is now in position to... more

T-Mobile US CEO Mike Sievert has revealed that more than 40% of the operator’s post-paid mobile subscriptions now have a 5G device, and 5G traffic already accounts for roughly half... more

Slovak cellco 4ka, which is part of the SWAN group, has activated 5G services in a third market, with a switch-on confirmed in the city of Trnava. A report from... more

BH Telecom announced the launch of commercial NB-IoT services over an 800MHz guard-band network in Bosnia-Herzegovina on 1 April, under the ‘NB-IoT Connectivity’ banner. The operator’s NB-IoT services are aimed... more

Bell has claimed ‘the fastest internet speeds of any major provider in Canada’ with the launch of a fibre broadband service offering download and upload speeds of 3Gbps, noting that... more

Tunisie Telecom (TT) and its local partners have reached an agreement to sell the Mauritanian cellco Mattel to UK-based group Telecel Group, which currently has operations in South Africa, Liberia... more

The Indian government has deferred the planned merger of state-owned providers Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL) and Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), the Economic Times writes, citing Minister of State... more

Pan-African mobile carrier MTN Group has selected JPMorgan Chase & Co to act as its advisor on the planned separation of its financial technology business Fintech, people with knowledge of... more

The EU has referred ten member states to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) over their failure to transpose the EU Electronic Communications Code (EECC) into national law. In February... more