Wireless Logic, a provider of IoT solutions, has announced its acquisition of Arqia, Brazil’s largest independent authorised MVNO.
Vodacom South Africa has instituted what it calls a community-based model to secure towers against battery theft. The community of Kamberg in the coastal province of KwaZulu-Natal has partnered with Vodacom KwaZulu-Natal region to implement additional security measures at the operator’s base station sites in the area.
ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (India) has announced plans open a new artificial intelligence (AI)-ready data centre campus in New Town, Kolkata, the primary financial and commercial centre of eastern and northeastern India, in the second quarter of 2025. The planned investment is said to be INR4.5 billion (aboutUS$52.7 million).
Vodacom Group CTO Dejan Kastelic (pictured) believes satellite providers like Starlink are not a threat to mobile operators but rather an opportunity to enhance telecom services in emerging markets with challenging infrastructure deployment.
Following hard on the heels of a Nokia-Vodafone Idea agreement announced earlier this week, tech giant Nokia and Indian operator Bharti Airtel say they are expanding their partnership with the deployment of Nokia’s Packet Core appliance-based and fixed wireless access (FWA) solutions.
It's true. The localization of content, applications, and compute in local hubs like São Paulo—paired with submarine cable delays, network buildout logistics, and the simple fact that bandwidth demand can't keep doubling—has slowed bandwidth demand in Latin America.
At Mobile World Congress 2025, Developing Telecoms spoke with IPv6 Forum President Latif Ladid to discuss IPv6 and Net 5.5G development, and their impact on global digitization in the AI era.
Satellite services provider Q-KON has reportedly brought South African telecoms player Vox onboard as a reseller of its Twoobii Super Smart Satellite Solutions for enterprise customers powered by Eutelsat OneWeb’s LEO satellite network.
Vietnam has reportedly given SpaceX regulatory clearance to establish at least one ground station in the country for its upcoming Starlink pilot offering, which would not only optimise traffic but also enable the government to police it.
Thailand’s Association of Digital Television Broadcasting (ADTEB) reportedly urged the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) on Monday to either scrap its plan to auction 3500-MHz spectrum to telcos or postpone it until it comes up with a feasible migration plan for digital TV broadcasters.