-
1 week ago | 
developingtelecoms.com | Vaughan O'Grady
Details Vaughan O'Grady 19 June 2025 7 Sub-Saharan Africa South Africa Data Centres Cloud Services Low Latency Data Sovereignty Africa Data Centres Cassava Technologies Platforms Disaster recovery Digital Infrastructure Blue Turtle Colocation services Africa Data Centres, part of pan-African technology group Cassava Technologies, has formed a commercial partnership with Blue Turtle, a South African enterprise IT solutions provider, to deploy colocation services in its Cape Town and Midrand...
-
1 week ago | 
developingtelecoms.com | Vaughan O'Grady
Details Vaughan O'Grady 19 June 2025 25 Middle East North Africa Saudi Arabia Satellite communications Digital Transformation ST Engineering iDirect Solutions by STC Saudi Vision 2030 STC Group Satellite communications company ST Engineering iDirect has announced a strategic partnership with Solutions by STC, an enabler of digital transformation in Saudi Arabia and the region and part of the massive ICT services company STC Group, to deliver advanced satellite communication services across...
-
1 week ago | 
developingtelecoms.com | Vaughan O'Grady
Details Vaughan O'Grady 19 June 2025 22 Latin America Mexico America Movil SIM Cards Telcel IFT Fines Oxxo After a lengthy investigative process, Mexico's telecommunications regulator Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones (IFT) has fined America Movil's subsidiary Telcel MXN1.78 billion (US$93.3 million) for alleged monopolistic practices. It seems that Telcel is being punished for striking exclusivity deals with convenience store chain Oxxo to sell its SIM cards. According to Reuters, the...
-
1 week ago | 
developingtelecoms.com | Vaughan O'Grady
Details Vaughan O'Grady 18 June 2025 46 Asia-Pacific India Smartphones Mobile Broadband Connectivity Satellite communications Vodafone Idea AST SpaceMobile Indian operator Vodafone Idea and AST SpaceMobile, which is building a space-based cellular broadband network accessible directly by everyday smartphones, have announced a strategic partnership to expand mobile connectivity across India’s unconnected regions. India has over 1.1 billion mobile subscribers. While there is widespread 4G and...
-
1 week ago | 
developingtelecoms.com | Vaughan O'Grady
Details Vaughan O'Grady 18 June 2025 77 Apps Asia-Pacific Ericsson Bangladesh Artificial Intelligence AWS Gen AI Agentic AI Ericsson has announced that Grameenphone, a leading mobile operator in Bangladesh with over 84.8 million subscribers, has become the first communication service provider (CSP) to use the new Ericsson and AWS Gen-AI Lab to create an agentic AI-powered OSS/BSS solution. The Gen-AI Lab, which Ericsson and AWS say they are launching for CSPs worldwide, is described as a...
-
1 week ago | 
developingtelecoms.com | Vaughan O'Grady
Details Vaughan O'Grady 17 June 2025 414 Capacity Caribbean Ekinops Internet Subsea Cable Guadeloupe Data Sovereignty Optical Transport Platforms Global Caribbean Network Global Caribbean Network (GCN), a provider of wholesale capacity to a number of telcos in the Caribbean, has upgraded its existing subsea cable network using the Ekinops360 WDM platform with FlexRate technology from optical transport and network access specialist Ekinops. GCN operates a cable system in the Guadeloupe region...
-
1 week ago | 
developingtelecoms.com | Vaughan O'Grady
Details Vaughan O'Grady 17 June 2025 20 Latin America Ecuador Fraud Prevention Anti-Spam A2P Messaging Claro Ecuador Platforms Network Monetisation Vox Solutions A2P Voice Claro Ecuador, a leading mobile operator in Ecuador, has appointed VOX Solutions as the exclusive gateway for international application-to-person (A2P) SMS and voice traffic delivery into is network. VOX Solutions describes itself as a tech company dedicated to empowering MNOs, carriers, aggregators and enterprises...
-
1 week ago | 
developingtelecoms.com | Vaughan O'Grady
Details Vaughan O'Grady 17 June 2025 25 Asia-Pacific India Infrastructure TRAI FttH Internet Access Wi-fi Hotspots PM WANI The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) is apparently capping connectivity costs for public Wi-Fi providers in what is widely seen as an effort to boost internet accessibility, but one that has not been well received by the companies whose infrastructure is helping to enable public Wi-Fi. Broadband connectivity costs of public Wi-Fi service providers are now...
-
1 week ago | 
developingtelecoms.com | Vaughan O'Grady
Details Vaughan O'Grady 17 June 2025 46 Sub-Saharan Africa Zimbabwe Points of Presence Digital Transformation Fibre Networks Paratus Group Powertel Communications Paratus Zimbabwe Paratus Zimbabwe, a subsidiary of Paratus Group, a company that provides ICT network solutions, fibre and satellite connectivity that cross-link Africa and the world, has signed a major deal with PowerTel Communications, the ICT arm of Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) to launch a new high-capacity...
-
1 week ago | 
developingtelecoms.com | Vaughan O'Grady
Details Vaughan O'Grady 16 June 2025 50 Apps Middle East North Africa Saudi Arabia Remittances Money Transfers Digital Wallet MoneyGram tiqmo Global payments network MoneyGram has announced a partnership with tiqmo, a smart payment company and financial app in Saudi Arabia. Through this partnership, tiqmo users across Saudi Arabia can now send international money transfers to over 200 countries and territories via the global MoneyGram network. With this integration, say the partners, tiqmo...
