22 Apr 2022

Safaricom Telecommunicaitons Ethiopia (Safaricom ET) is reported to have reached an agreement in principle with local telecoms incumbent Ethio Telecom related to interconnection and the sharing of cell sites and... more

Vodacom Tanzania has signed a contract with the National Information Communication and Technology Broadband Backbone (NICTBB) worth USD4.59 million that will allow it to use the state-owned fibre-optic infrastructure to... more

The regional government of Wallonia has approved an increase in electro-magnetic radio emissions by mobile antennas to enable the deployment of 5G services in southern Belgium. In accordance with the... more

Chris Bannister, CEO of WOM Colombia, has exited the company after overseeing the deployment of 3,832 cell sites ‘in record time’. He will be replaced by Argentinean Ramiro Lafarga. Signing... more

Venezuelan mobile operator Digitel has unveiled plans to introduce VoLTE connectivity in 2023, following the virtualisation of its packet core. Also on the agenda for the cellco is the launch... more

The Polish telecoms regulator, the Office of Electronic Communications (Urzad Komunikacji Elektronicznej, UKE), has opened a consultation regarding the extension of the 2100MHz spectrum licence held by cellco Plus (registered... more

The 2Africa consortium has announced that the 2Africa submarine cable has made its first landing in Genoa (Italy). Vodafone, the 2Africa landing party in Genoa, has partnered with Equinix to... more

Dhivehi Raajjeyge Gulhun (Dhiraagu), the Maldives’ incumbent telecoms operator, has announced the expansion of its fibre broadband and DhiraaguTV service to Feeali, an inhabited island in Faafu Atoll. The firm’s... more

Eurofiber has announced a new partnership with Walloon Infrastructure Financing Company (SOFICO) to bring very high speed fibre-optic connectivity to companies in Wallonia’s business parks. Thanks to the non-exclusive agreement,... more

Hong Kong-based wireless network solutions provider IPLook Technologies has been selected by Connect, a Wireless Internet Service Provider (WISP) in Lebanon, to deploy high speed 4G fixed wireless access (FWA)... more

Kuwait-based telecoms group Zain has published its consolidated financial results for the three months ended 31 March 2022, reporting a 7% increase in revenues year-on-year to KWD408 million (USD1.3 billion),... more

Saudi Arabian mobile network operator (MNO) Etihad Etisalat (Mobily) has published its financial results for the three months ended 31 March 2022, reporting a 5.8% year-on-year increase in revenues to... more

US telecoms giant AT&T Inc has reported consolidated operating revenues of USD38.1 billion for the three months ended 31 March 2022, down 13.3% from USD43.9 billion on an annualised basis.... more

Chinese full-service providers China Mobile and China Unicom have published financial results for the first three months of 2022. China Mobile has reported operating revenue of CNY227.3 billion (USD35.3 billion)... more

The Jersey Competition Regulatory Authority (JCRA) has published its key findings and recommendations resulting from a market study into retail prices for broadband, fixed line and mobile phone services in... more