14 Apr 2023

Airtel Nigeria, the country’s third largest mobile network operator by subscriptions, has announced the launch of VoLTE services. The operator states that the new offering provides customers with ‘crystal clear’... more

Senegal’s Regulation Authority for Telecommunications and Posts (L’Autorite de Regulation des Telecommunications et des Postes, ARTP) plans to introduce national roaming between the country’s mobile network operators (MNOs) in order... more

Finnish cellcos DNA and Elisa have announced 5G network expansions, extending their coverage to Multila (DNA) and Masku and Lapinjarvi (Elisa). DNA reported that the works bring its total 5G... more

Ooredoo Kuwait announced that it has successfully completed ‘Advanced 5G’ technology tests using ‘Two Carrier Aggregation (2CC CA)’ to deliver download speeds over 3Gbps. The test was conducted by aggregating... more

Hungarian telecoms/ICT group 4iG yesterday disclosed that one of its subsidiaries DIGI is planning to divest some of its mobile network assets in the short term, Budapest Business Journal (BBJ)... more

Russian cellco MegaFon claims that new US sanctions targeting its parent group, Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov’s USM, will have ‘no material impact’ on its business, Reuters reports. The mobile operator... more

Chinese state-owned telecom firms China Telecom, China Mobile and China Unicom are developing a USD500 million submarine fibre-optic cable aiming to link Asia, the Middle East and Europe, four people... more

Belgian cable operator VOO has unveiled plans to connect almost 27,000 homes in underserved rural communities to fibre with the aid of a subsidy from the Wallonia region, L’Echo reports.... more

Finnish fibre infrastructure operator Valoo has selected domestic vendor Nokia to deploy a 10G fibre broadband network that will connect 200,000 homes in around 30 cities by the end of... more

Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite communications operator OneWeb has been selected for two trials to connect remote communities for the UK government’s Very Hard to Reach Premises connectivity programme. OneWeb’s... more

Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) is reorganising its stake in the UK mobile infrastructure operator Cornerstone Telecommunications Infrastructure (CTIL), fuelling speculation of a potential sale, broadbandtvnews.com writes. VMO2 previously divided its... more

Consolidated Communications has confirmed that it received a non-binding takeover proposal letter from Searchlight Capital Partners and British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (collectively: the Searchlight Group) on 12 April 2023.... more

Kent-based fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) ISP Trooli has been sold to Agnar UK Infrastructure. According to a Companies House filing unearthed by ISP Review, Agnar UK took significant control over Trooli on... more

The day-to-day running of Mocambique Telecom (Tmcel) has been transferred to its 90% shareholder, state asset management agency Instituto de Gestao das Participacoes do Estado (IGEPE). A report from O... more