Sri Lankan telco Dialog Axiata said on Friday it has wrapped up a successful trial with Meta to integrate AI into its network to enhance network optimisation and quality of experience (QoE) for its customers.

Qvantel is back in the MWC25 news headlines. The BSS specialist has announced a significant milestone in its partnership with Uzbek mobile operator Perfectum and tech giant Nokia.

Tune Talk, described as Malaysia’s fastest-growing digital telco, has signed a memorandum of agreement (MOA) with Mavenir, the cloud-native network infrastructure provider, which will provide it with a cutting-edge cloud-native digital OSS and BSS platform. The announcement was made at MWC 2025.

Turkish telco Turkcell signed its second AI-related deal at Mobile World Congress 2025 on Tuesday – this one with Ericsson to develop, deploy and adopt generative AI (GenAI) solutions across Turkcell's networks and operations.

Turkish operator Turkcell and tech vendor Nokia have signed an agreement to elevate fixed broadband performance and customer experience across the Turkcell network by using Nokia’s AI-powered fixed network analytics solution.

Professional services group the EY organisation has announced at MWC25 the launch of the EY Telecom.ai agentic solution, a suite of artificial intelligence (AI) agents for telecommunication providers that will operate across the critical functions of finance, network, customer service and content life cycle management.

At MWC25, the prpl Foundation, the open-source organisation dedicated to transforming the software architecture of home gateways, will highlight its innovative platform and the collaborative efforts of its members in advancing home connectivity and home services and solutions.

Digital BSS specialist Qvantel has announced at MWC25 that it has secured a major contract from global digital operator Veon to provide managed services to run BSS operations for Veon digital operators.

Network APIs innovations are set to make a powerful impact at MWC2025, says Orange, whose Orange LiveNet division will present a comprehensive array of activities and demonstrations, showcasing cutting-edge solutions that redefine industry standards.

Operator Ooredoo Qatar and tech giant Ericsson say they have further strengthened their partnership with the integration of Ericsson Mediation into Ooredoo Qatar’s network.

Depending on which news outlet you access, the latest strategic move by British multinational corporation Lyca Group either implies a sharper focus on markets like Africa, a cost and staff-cutting exercise in the face of a number of economic challenges, or both.

Digital technology, the web and data analysis for predictive maintenance have come together in a new services agreement between Saudi Railway Company (SAR) and smart and sustainable mobility company Alstom.

How should the telecommunications industry respond to the transformation that technology evolution – and especially AI – will drive? It’s a transformation that will affect strategy, services and operations, as Huawei’s Liu Kang explained at OTF2024.

Pakistan operator Jazz has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the country’s National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) and the National Information Technology Board (NITB).

Service provider e& UAE and leading technology company Huawei have announced a strategic collaboration focused on what they describe as  revolutionising voice network innovation through convergence and voice over new radio (VoNR).

Tech vendor Ericsson and service provider e& United Arab Emirates (UAE) have announced the successful implementation of low latency, low loss, scalable throughput (L4S), a time-critical communication technology, in a 5G commercial network for the first time in the Middle East and Africa.

iBASIS, a provider of communications solutions for operators and digital players worldwide, and TelEm Group, one of the leading mobile networks in the Caribbean island of Saint Maarten, have announced a five-year exclusive partnership to manage TelEm’s international voice services in key markets.

We’ve written a lot this year about the effect of the devaluation of naira on telecoms services in Nigeria. But another African country where service providers have been hit by the devaluation of its currency is Ethiopia, whose state-owned telecom provider, Ethio Telecom, has now announced tariff increases across many of its services.

A reminder that there has been other telecoms news coming out of Bangladesh recently apart from the recent internet disruption comes from Grameenphone, Bangladesh’s largest telecommunications service provider with more than 85 million subscribers, which has partnered with Mobileum, a provider of analytics and network solutions.

This week has seen yet another airline announce an alliance with a telecoms company with the news that Kenya Airways has signed a strategic partnership with Kenyan operator Safaricom.

Huawei, TM Forum, and eight carriers have jointly released the New-Generation Intelligent Operations White Paper 2.0 at Digital Transformation World (DTW) 2024, in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Qatari telecommunications company Ooredoo has made two service-related announcements in recent days – one alongside Nutanix, a leader in hybrid multi-cloud computing, for Qatar Airways, and the other, with digital transformation specialist Netcracker Technology, to enhance Ooredoo’s own CRM offering.

Telkom Indonesia’s international arm Telin announced on Thursday that it has signed a new Master Service Agreement (MSA) with Sri Lankan telco Dialog Axiata to provide managed services for international A2P SMS traffic to help it combat spam and fraud.

Indian company Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a major name in IT services, consulting, and business solutions, has announced the opening of a new delivery centre in Londrina, a city in southern Brazil.