Bharti Airtel forged a partnership with India’s third-largest private bank Axis Bank to jointly develop a range of fintech offerings, aiming to speed adoption of digital services in tier-two and -three markets across the country. In joint statement, Axis Bank MD and CEO Amitabh Chaudhry noted the collaboration will help...

By Oystein Bergmann, Senior Correspondent Scandinavia and Celestine Okorie, Senior Correspondent South Africa Ericsson has joined MTN in pledging to commit to a Road to Zero strategy and committing to realizing a Net Zero carbon emission future by 2040. MTN has called on partners including Ericsson to work together to...

By Ron Chen, Senior Correspondent ASEAN Region Sony Group Corporation  and Honda Motor Co., Ltd. have announced that they have agreed to deepen discussion and exploration of forming a strategic alliance that aims to create a new era of mobility and mobility services. Specifically, the two companies have signed a...

By Peter Cohen Before carriers and enterprises can monetize the metaverse, it still has to be built. Verizon and Meta staked their claims this week with the announcement of a “first-of-its-kind strategic partnership” at Verizon’s Investor Day 2022 event on Thursday. The new collaboration will forge foundational metaverse technology, according...

By Jonathan Easton Comcast Technology Solutions (CTS) has announced a new partnership with Ideal Systems throughout the APAC region. Thepartnership will see Ideal Systems serve as a strategic reseller of Comcast Technology Solutions’ CTSuite portfolio of products and services. It will offer companies in the region access to CTS’s Cloud...

By Stuart Thomson Swiss commercial broadcast group CH Media and Liberty Global-backed service provider Sunrise UPC have forged a joint venture allieance that will see streaming service oneplus become an integral component of the TV offer of Sunrise UPC. The Liberty Glboal-backed operator will in turn acquire a 20 per...

By James Blackman Deutsche Telekom has teamed up with Japanese module maker Murata and Dutch chip company Nowi on a small-sized energy-harvesting NB-IoT module that uses the German operator’s proprietary iSIM solution, NuSIM. The trio have called it the world’s smallest battery-less NB-IoT module; it has been presented this week...

By Ron Chen, Senior Correspondent ASEAN Region A top value-added distributor and preferred cybersecurity solutions provider servicing the Middle East and Africa, Spire Solutions has announced a strategic partnership with a recognized leader in application security, Synopsys’ Software Integrity Group to jointly minimize business risks across the software development life...

By Caio Castro With more than 240 million smartphones owned and 118 million users, Brazil is established as one of the biggest mobile internet markets globally, only trailing China, India, the United States, and Indonesia. Still, the country’s overall contribution to 3G, 4G, and 5G standards hasn’t been up to...

By Jonathan Easton US streaming operator fuboTV has announced a partnership with analytics firm Kantar. fuboTV said that it would leverage Kantar’s media effectiveness product Brand Lift Insights to allow advertisers and marketers to better understand the effectiveness of their campaigns. Advertisers can pair Kantar’s ad effectiveness capabilities with fuboTV’s...