12+ hour, 23+ min ago   (248+ words) Data centre company Equinix has reportedly expanded its Colombia data centre footprint and increased its investment, bringing online the second phase of BG2, its second data centre in Colombia, doubling the site's cabinet capacity in Bogota. The BNamericas website says the…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (308+ words) Paratus Uganda said on Monday it has become the first service provider in the country to launch Starlink’s LEO satellite service after the Uganda Communication Commission approved Starlink’s provisional operational licence in May. Paratus Uganda said the integration of Starlink…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (329+ words) Telikom PNG subsidiary Datec PNG officially launched Kumul Cloud Infinity – billed as Papua New Guinea’s first sovereign cloud and AI data centre – on Friday in partnership with CloudSigma. Datec PNG gave no details on the load capacity of the new…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (232+ words) Omantel announced on Monday it has partnered with Chinese LEO satellite operator GalaxySpace to explore ways to cooperate in next-gen satellite connectivity in Oman, to potentially include direct-to-device (D2D) satellite technologies. Under the framework agreement, Omantel and GalaxySpace said they will…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (260+ words) Latin American data centre firm Terranova, the hyperscale data centre platform backed by the Actis infrastructure fund, described as one of the largest and longest-standing sustainable infrastructure investors globally, has started work on a new data centre campus outside Sao…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago   (292+ words) India is set to see the launch of locally designed smartphones from three companies within the next 10-14 months, as the government pushes manufacturers to develop original devices rather than copy existing products. India's ICT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw told The Economic…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (252+ words) The Dominican Institute of Telecommunications (Indotel) has announced the award of radio spectrum frequency blocks to operators Viettel and Claro Dominicana after a recent public tender. Viettel obtained 240MHz in the 700MHz, 2.3GHz and 3.6GHz bands, while Claro Dominicana acquired 20MHz in the 700MHz band. The…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (345+ words) Revenue rose 14% to ZAR 12.6 billion (US$786 million), while service revenue increased 6% to ZAR 11.6 billion. Reported EBITDA reached ZAR 5.5 billion, although this included one-off gains from the restructuring. Adjusted EBITDA, excluding these items, was ZAR 2.4 billion. The balance sheet reset was…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (263+ words) Ciena announced on Thursday that Indonesia’s ION Network (a.k.a. Parsaoran Global Datatrans) is deploying its WaveLogic 6 Extreme (WL6e) on its new ION Cable System 1 (ICS1) that will connect Jakarta with Singapore. The 2,000-km ICS1 system will run on Ciena’s 6500 platform powered by WL6e coherent…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago   (128+ words) Telefonica Chile has signed a multi-year managed services agreement with Amdocs as the operator looks to simplify its technology operations and accelerate modernisation under new owner Millicom. The companies said the partnership is intended to help Millicom's Chilean operations speed…...