China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has reportedly kicked off a pilot programme to allow foreign investors to operate wholly-owned data centres and other telecoms-related services in select locations.
After a lengthy investigative process, Mexico’s telecommunications regulator Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones (IFT) has fined America Movil’s subsidiary Telcel MXN1.78 billion (US$93.3 million) for alleged monopolistic practices.
The military government in Myanmar, which seized power in a coup in February 2021, has enacted a new cybersecurity law which imposes wide-ranging controls on the flow of information. The measures were announced last Friday in state-run newspapers,…
The widely reported sale by international service provider Telefonica of its Argentinian division to Telecom Argentina for US$1.245 billion, a deal agreed in February, is now on hold, apparently by order of Argentina’s government.