31 Mar 2023

US-based Vanu, which describes itself as a global provider of turnkey mobile communications solutions that allow MNOs to serve off-grid markets, is deploying a minimum 200 telecoms towers for Orange... more

Vodafone Hungary – a subsidiary of local telecoms/IT group 4iG since 31 January – has been ordered to pay a fine of HUF932.4 million (USD2.664 million) by the Hungarian antimonopoly... more

The festoon submarine cable connecting Guinea-Bissau to the Africa Coast to Europe (ACE) cable in Dakar (Senegal) has reportedly entered service. The 464km unrepeatered cable runs from Bissau to Dakar... more

Starlink, the satellite broadband division of SpaceX, is set to launch operations in Ecuador from 1 April. The Ministry for Telecommunications and Information Society (Mintel) announced earlier this week that... more

Malaysia’s government has announced the launch of a new fixed broadband plan for the ‘B40’ lower income group, as well as pensioners and disabled users, The New Straits Times reports.... more

US-based vendor Adtran has announced that Israel’s Partner Communications is leveraging its open, disaggregated 10Gbps fibre access platform to offer multigigabit broadband services, increase competitiveness and grow market share. In... more

Lithuanian cellco Bite is discontinuing the brand of its broadband fixed wireless access (BFWA) subsidiary MEZON tomorrow (1 April 2023). The company’s website informs MEZON customers: ‘On 1 April 2023... more

New Zealand’s competition regulator has highlighted potential competition issues related to the proposed NZD1.076 billion (USD671 million) sale of 2degrees’ passive mobile towers to Connexa, the company set up to... more

Airtel Kenya has been saved from forcibly selling a 30% stake to local investors after US tech giant Amazon successfully lobbied President William Ruto to drop the foreign ownership rules... more

Italy’s WINDTRE is close to agreeing a sale of its active mobile antenna network and part of its backbone infrastructure to Swedish investment fund EQT. Following "speculation regarding a sale":https://www.commsupdate.com/articles/2023/03/15/windtre-considering-network-sale-5g-tdd-coverage-passes-66/... more

Jessica Rosenworcel, the chairwoman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), has proposed new rules under which the watchdog would periodically reassess and consider renewing existing authorisations for foreign-owned telecoms providers... more