12 Apr 2022

Sector watchdog the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has published its recommendations for the auction of spectrum for 5G services, advising the government to release all available spectrum in... more

Finnish telecoms equipment giant Nokia released a statement this morning confirming that it is exiting the Russian market, whilst aiming to enable support for existing networks there. Nokia will take... more

MTN Nigeria has announced that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has granted it final approval to provide mobile payment banking services to its customers. In November last year MTN... more

Telekom Deutschland, the domestic fixed and mobile unit of Deutsche Telekom (DT), says it has expanded the capacity and coverage of its mobile network at 1,055 locations nationwide in the... more

British mobile network operator (MNO) Vodafone UK has announced the switch-on of its 5G network in twelve new locations, those being: Coventry, Dursley, Golborne, Keynsham, Llantwit Major, Lydney, Redditch, Rickmansworth,... more

Mobile network operator (MNO) XL Axiata is continuing to improve its 4G LTE network, announcing that it has recently completed work to further densify its infrastructure in the Riau Islands... more

Telecom Malagasy (Telma) and Ericsson have deployed the Swedish vendor’s three-sector, dual-band Radio 6626 across five major sites in Madagascar’s capital, Antananarivo. Combining three sectors and two frequencies in one... more

In response to the arrival of new competitor Africell on 7 April, Angola’s established mobile operators Unitel and Movicel have both introduced tariff promotions in attempts to combat the threat... more

Guyanese Prime Minister Mark Phillips has requested that industry regulator the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) develop a set of quality of service (QoS) benchmarks for operators to abide by, following... more

Globe Telecom said it rolled out 1.4 million fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) connections across the Philippines last year as fibre capacity improved by 38.6% and end-user subscriptions climbed by 36.5%. In a... more

Orange Poland says it has now installed fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) networks that pass 335,000 households under the government-subsidised Operational Programme Digital Poland (Programu Operacyjnego Polska Cyfrowa, POPC). Telko.in reports that networks... more

Spark New Zealand has launched a process to explore the introduction of third-party capital in its mobile network infrastructure spinoff, dubbed Spark TowerCo, comprising approximately 1,263 sites. The company intends... more

Vodafone Spain is considering hiring a merchant bank to coordinate the sale of its fixed line assets, Expansion reports. According to the business daily the telco is open to selling... more

The US Treasury has exempted the provision of internet communication services from US sanctions against Russia, in a move welcomed by human rights and open access groups, Datacenterdynamics.com reported. A... more