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developingtelecoms.com | Vaughan O'Grady
Details Vaughan O'Grady 12 May 2025 1 Apps Sub-Saharan Africa Ethio Telecom Ethiopia Kenya Safaricom e-commerce TeleBirr Safaricom Ethiopia MSMEs Earnings The two competitors in the Ethiopian mobile communications duopoly can both claim to have inspired positive headlines in recent days, with Ethio Telecom announcing a major new e-commerce service launch and Safaricom Ethiopia highlighting improved financial results. Ethio Telecom has announced the launch of Zemen GEBEYA, a digital...
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developingtelecoms.com | Vaughan O'Grady
Details Vaughan O'Grady 12 May 2025 1 Latin America Carbon Footprint Infrastructure Colombia Customer Experience Energy Efficiency Claro Colombia 5G networks Claro Colombia, a leading mobile telecommunications operator with more than 40 million users, has announced that it is implementing the modernisation of its more than 10,000 antennas nationwide. Claro will work to upgrade more than 1,000 of its antennas in the country this year, simplifying its hardware and modernising key components...
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developingtelecoms.com | Vaughan O'Grady
Details Vaughan O'Grady 12 May 2025 1 Latin America Towers Telefonica Argentina Uruguay Millicom Paraguay Mergers and Acquisitions Tigo Paraguay Tower Leaseback SBA Communications Corporation ATIS Group Towerco Investments Lati Paraguay ATIS Group, a digital infrastructure provider in Latin America, announced late last week that it had entered into a definitive agreement with Millicom, a provider of fixed and mobile telecommunications services in Latin America, to acquire Lati Paraguay, a...
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developingtelecoms.com | Vaughan O'Grady
Details Vaughan O'Grady 12 May 2025 1 Asia-Pacific India Thailand Malaysia Singapore Connectivity Submarine Cable Sri Lanka Dialog Axiata Landing Stations Axiata Group IAX IEX BBG MSC Sri Lankan service provider Dialog Axiata has announced the launch in the country of the IAX (India Asia Xpress) submarine cable system, which it describes as a significant part of its total investments in international connectivity infrastructure (said to be over US$100 million) aimed at bolstering Sri Lanka’s...
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developingtelecoms.com | Vaughan O'Grady
Details Vaughan O'Grady 09 May 2025 33 Latin America Asia-Pacific PayPal Emerging Markets EMEA B2C B2B Payment Platforms dLocal dLocal, a cross-border payment platform for emerging markets, has announced what it calls an expanded relationship with financial technology company PayPal to offer businesses access to payment processing and local payment methods in more than 40 new untapped emerging markets. By leveraging dLocal’s platform, global customers of the PayPal Enterprise Payments service...
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developingtelecoms.com | Vaughan O'Grady
Details Vaughan O'Grady 09 May 2025 35 OSS Asia-Pacific PLDT Philippines Customer Experience Microsoft Amdocs Customer Engagement Platforms Amdocs, a provider of software and services to communications and media companies, has announced the successful go-live of the Amdocs Customer Engagement Platform for Philippines service provider PLDT. Amdocs explains that the successfully deployed customer service solution allows PLDT to streamline operations and improve case resolution efficiency while...
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developingtelecoms.com | Vaughan O'Grady
Details Vaughan O'Grady 09 May 2025 1 Asia-Pacific Data Centres Malaysia Google Equinix Hyperscale Google Cloud Gamuda Pearl Computing Malaysia Malaysia is back in the data centre news again. Hard on the heels of news that Equinix has completed the second phase of a new data centre in Cyberjaya, Selangor, has come the announcement of an award by Google related to the building of a hyperscale data centre in the country. Google has in fact awarded leading infrastructure and real estate company...
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developingtelecoms.com | Vaughan O'Grady
Details Vaughan O'Grady 09 May 2025 1 Asia-Pacific India Wi-fi Routers FttH Recycling Sustainability Wi-Fi 6 Wi-Fi 7 Optical network terminals GX Group GX Group, a Netherlands-based fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) and optical networking gear maker, has extended what it calls its ‘Ecoverse’ initiative aimed at manufacturing Wi-Fi routers and GPON optical network terminals (ONTs) with recycled and biodegradable materials. In this case it plans Wi-Fi routers made from Khadi and bamboo, with, it seems,...
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developingtelecoms.com | Vaughan O'Grady
Details Vaughan O'Grady 08 May 2025 35 Asia-Pacific Data Centres Indonesia Thailand Malaysia Philippines Equinix Renewable Energy There are both positive developments and a few problems for the digital infrastructure company Equinix in Malaysia, according to recent headlines. Equinix has completed the second phase of its KL1 International Business Exchange (IBX) data centre in Cyberjaya, Selangor. The latest expansion adds 450 cabinets to the KL1 facility, bringing its total capacity to 900...
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developingtelecoms.com | Vaughan O'Grady
Details Vaughan O'Grady 08 May 2025 1 Asia-Pacific Data Centres Pakistan Capacity Nokia Backbone Infrastructure Optical Fibre Fibre Broadband Low Latency Optical Transport Cybernet Technology vendor Nokia has announced that Cybernet, Pakistan’s leading fibre broadband provider, has chosen Nokia’s optical transport solution for its new long-haul optical fibre cable (OFC) network. Designed to deliver 1.2 terabits per second (Tbps) per wavelength, this next-generation infrastructure will power...
