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Advanced technologies company Thales and operators Singtel (Singapore), Optus (Australia), AIS (Thailand) and Globe Telecom (Philippines) have announced the successful deployment of the world’s first multi-operator enterprise eSIM connectivity network for the Internet of Things (IoT).

India's fast-changing data centre landscape continues to make headlines. This time home-grown company Webyne has announced that it has achieved 10 MW Tier III data centre capacity across Delhi-NCR (National Capital Region) and is targeting 100 MW expansion.

Malaysian broadband operator Time dotCom announced on Friday it has formalised a strategic Memorandum of Collaboration (MoC) with local cybersecurity services company LGMS to strengthen Malaysia’s cybersecurity ecosystem.

Senegalese telco Sonatel says it has boosted its teleport in Gandoul with the deployment of Eutelsat OneWeb's Satellite Portal Network (SNP), which includes 16 LEO satellite antennas and a Tier III technical room.

New Caledonian operator OPT-NC has successfully completed its first satellite mobile connectivity test in New Caledonia in partnership with satcoms company Lynk Global.

Google has signed a deal with agroforestry carbon removal firm Thryve.Earth to purchase 260,000 tons of carbon removal credits from a reforestation project in Sulawesi, Indonesia.

The Bank of Central African States (BEAC) has officially joined the Pan-African Payment and Settlement System (PAPSS), which aims to enable the efficient flow of money securely across African borders.

Mercantile Space, a leading Nepalese communications technology company, is partnering with Rivada Space Networks to provide what is described as a unique next generation connectivity network with the necessary security and performance to drive digital innovation and transformation.

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) announced on Thursday it has launched a new initiative to develop frameworks that ensure that the behaviour of AI agents are trustworthy and accountable.

Airties is set to acquire Bengaluru-headquartered Aprecomm, a provider of self-healing network and customer experience solutions.

Operator Vodafone says is trialling energy-saving 5G technology in Turkey, using new radio antennas and advanced engineering designed to boost performance and resilience while saving power.

Agribusiness seems to have become a very attractive proposition for IoT equipment and services providers, as a recent announcement from the LoRa Alliance, the organisation defining, evolving and promoting the LoRaWAN standard, indicates.

Airtel Africa reduced diesel consumption by 9.1 million litres during its 2025/26 financial year as the operator accelerated efforts to lower emissions and improve the sustainability of its network operations.

East African cloud services provider Angani has joined the London Internet Exchange (LINX)’s Nairobi interconnection hub for regional peering in Kenya.

Saudi telco Zain KSA said on Tuesday it’s collaborating with open-source solutions provider Red Hat to make its internal digital backbone ready to support AI app development and deployment across its businesses.

NEC XON Systems and PowerX have announced a strategic partnership to deliver intelligent remote management system (RMS) and energy efficiency solutions for large, distributed telecommunications networks across Africa.

Underlining the continuing difficulties faced by telecoms companies in extending broadband rollout is news of complaints from a recent forum hosted by the Association of Telecoms Companies of Nigeria in Lagos.

A recently announced collaboration is set to deliver Eutelsat OneWeb low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite services to heavy industries operating across Southern Africa.

South Africa mobile network operator rain and technology giant Huawei say they are jointly accelerating the deployment of a sub-1GHz massive MIMO 5G network across South Africa, with plans to deploy a multi-thousand-site scale commercial network.

Sri Lankan telco Dialog Axiata announced on Tuesday it has launched Dialog Pay, a unified payments and financial services ecosystem designed to boost adoption of digital payments.

Agentic AI and automation solutions provider Flytxt announced on Tuesday it is partnering with Digicel Trinidad & Tobago (T&T) to optimize its customer value management (CVM) platform with AI.

Nepalese cloud service provider DataHub has teamed up with Hosted AI, a turnkey platform for GPU orchestration, monetisation and neocloud operations to launch an AI cloud offering in Nepal.

Latin American digital infrastructure provider Cirion Technologies confirmed that it has restored 62% of the services knocked out by the two recent earthquakes in Venezuela.

Gabon has inaugurated its first Tier III international-standard data centre, in a move widely described as being aimed at strengthening the country’s digital sovereignty and expanding its digital infrastructure.

Tech giant Huawei and the Argentinian Agricultores Federados Argentinos (AFA) association have signed a cooperation agreement to accelerate the digital transformation of Argentina’s agricultural sector.

French satellite startup Univity – which plans to launch very low earth orbit (VLEO) satellites for wholesale 5G direct-to-device (D2D) services – said on Monday it has signed an MoU with Telkom Indonesia’s satellite arm Telkomsat to cooperate on satellite-based connectivity solutions.

ZTE revealed on Monday it has signed an MoU with Indonesian telecoms infrastructure and network provider MoraRepublic to collaborate on developing and expanding fixed wireless access (FWA) and fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) services for residential and enterprise customers.

Among recent data centre headlines from Malaysia has been news that digital infrastructure company Vertiv is increasing manufacturing capacity, while a deal involving hyperscale data centre specialist Airtrunk aims to secure renewable energy supply for the company’s data centre platform.

Latvia’s SJSC Latvijas dzelzceļš, a group of transport, logistics and technology companies mainly focused on the provision of a competitive railway infrastructure, will be the first railway company in the Baltics to use a private 5G network technology provided by Latvian operator LMT Group.

India has increased its policing of online technology platforms as it has reportedly demanded messaging services Telegram and Signal explain their safeguards around users keeping their phone numbers hidden, after WhatsApp saw its usernames rollout paused.

Papua New Guinea saw movement on the 5G front on Friday after Digicel PNG announced its mobile network is now officially 5G-ready, while the country’s regulator released two draft plans for 5G spectrum bands.

Paratus Zimbabwe and Powertel Communications, the ICT arm of Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA), announced on Friday that the first phase of their national fibre backbone project is now live and carrying traffic.