Satellite operator SES said on Wednesday that it has signed a financial package worth almost EUR60 million (US$65.4 million) with European Investment Bank’s global arm EIB Global and the European Commission for a project to provide satellite internet connectivity to remote rural areas in Central Asia.

PLDT Group’s data centre arm Vitro announced on Wednesday it has kicked off proof-of-concept (PoC) trials with Nokia to develop data centre solutions tailored for AI workloads, including generative AI (GenAI) training and inference.

Vodafone Idea (Vi) has launched 5G services in Mumbai.

Abu Dhabi’s Department of Government Enablement has announced an agreement with Microsoft and Core42, a G42 company specialising in sovereign cloud, AI infrastructure and digital services. G42 is an artificial intelligence development company based in Abu Dhabi.

Underlining the continuing effect of the AI boom on Asia, Thailand has reportedly approved an estimated US$2.7 billion of investments in data centres and cloud services from both local and foreign firms.

StoneX Group and Bamboo Payment Systems say they are planning a leading solution for global merchants and financial institutions that need to collect and make payments in Latin America.

Global digital operator Veon and Cohen Circle Acquisition Corp, a special purpose acquisition company, have announced the signing of a business combination agreement that will result in the listing of Ukraine operator Kyivstar on the Nasdaq Stock Market in the United States.

MyRepublic Indonesia is a provider of fiber optic internet and subscription TV services that offers solutions for the internet and entertainment needs of Indonesians. The company has been working with ZTE to boost high-speed internet access in Indonesia. We spoke to Mei Zhonghua, President of Asia-Pacific and CIS, ZTE Corporation, and Timotius Sulaiman, CEO of MyRepublic, to learn more.

Indonesian market leading operator Telkomsel has signed a mobile video advertising deal with Novosol to boost high-margin mobile ad revenue in the country.

ZTE Corporation has unveiled a range of new, AI-enabled devices during MWC2025 in Barcelona, under the banner of its "AI for All" product strategy.

At Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2025, Huawei emphasised the urgent need for operators to construct future-proof optical networks to capitalise on the surge in data demand driven by AI-powered applications.

Safaricom M-Pesa announced on Monday it is partnering with Ethiopian fintech startup LakiPay Financial Technologies to enhance digital payment services in Ethiopia.

Indonesia’s Telkom Group announced on Monday that it plans to implement Meta’s Llama open-source AI model into the customer chatbots of its enterprise clients to encourage them to adopt WhatsApp as a customer channel.

Japan’s NTT Data announced on Monday that its long-awaited Malaysia, India, Singapore Transit (MIST) subsea cable system will be commissioned by June this year as it also outlined plans to double its data centre capacity in India over the next few years.

The three partners behind MANTA, a new subsea cable system connecting Mexico and the USA with Central and Latin America, have announced that  SubCom, which engineers, manufactures, and installs subsea fibre optic data cables, has been awarded a contract for the design, manufacture and installation of the MANTA system.

Wholesale connectivity provider WIOCC has joined forces with iColo, a carrier-neutral data centre provider, in a strategic colocation agreement aimed at accelerating the growth of internet service providers (ISPs) in Mombasa, a coastal city in southeastern Kenya, and across the country.

Malaysian operator Maxis has introduced a Gen AI assistant, Mia (Maxis Intelligent Assistant), developed in collaboration with AWS for its B2B subscribers.

Veon Group has appointed Singapore-based operator StarHub’s consumer chief, Johan Buse (pictured), as the new CEO of its Banglalink unit, in a move to accelerate its digital expansion in emerging markets.

The Zambia Tourism Agency (ZTA) and operator Airtel Zambia have signed what the two groups describe as a landmark memorandum of understanding (MoU) to enhance tourism planning and development using anonymised telecommunications data.

At MWC25, Intracom Telecom's CTO Christos Rizos spoke to us about how the company is implementing Agentic AI across its offering to boost customer service, network monitoring, energy saving, and more.

We caught up with Intracom Telecom at MWC25 to discuss how their multigigabit solutions deliver the high capacity of fibre at a much lower TCO.

During MWC Barcelona 2025, the World Broadband Association (WBBA) hosted an industry summit themed "Smarter Broadband: Investment. Innovation. Intelligence."