Veon Group plans to invest US$20 million in its financial services subsidiary Mobilink Microfinance Bank, as the company looks to scale digital banking services in Pakistan.
At the start of each year, it’s been my practice to report on the behaviour of the Internet’s inter-domain routing system over the previous 12 months, looking in some detail at some metrics from the routing system that can show the essential shape and behaviour of the underlying interconnection fabric of the Internet.
The year ahead undoubtedly holds challenges for the telecoms industry, but progress on a number of fronts appears assured.
India’s government has approved a fresh batch of electronics manufacturing projects worth INR418.6 billion (US$4.6 billion), as it steps up efforts to build domestic supply chains for telecoms, mobile and IT hardware.
Starlink will offer free broadband services in Venezuela until 3rd February following the US airstrikes on Caracas which led to the arrest of the country’s former leader Nicolas Maduro.
Cambodian mobile users now have access to 5G services after the country’s three main operators, Cellcard, Metfone and Smart, launched their respective networks at the start of the new year.
Ground has been broken on a new data centre for the Saudi Arabian government in Riyadh, described as the world’s largest government data centre.
Ethiopian Airlines Group, a leading African airline, has signed a strategic agreement with Nucore Technologies to advance its digital transformation efforts – and in particular to strengthen the services it offers via the platform it calls the Ethiopian Airlines’ Agency Portal.
Satellite service provider Starlink has shut down access to its satellite internet service in Uganda after receiving instructions to do so from the country’s regulator, the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC).
Egypt’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) and operator Orange Egypt have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) aimed at expanding the use of telemedicine and delivering integrated, high-quality digital healthcare services to villages and to remote and deprived areas.