Indosat and Transsion to bring affordable smartphones to Indonesia

The Indian government has instructed major smartphone vendors to pre-install its Sanchar Saathi cybersecurity app on all new devices in an effort to curb spam, fraud and rising cybercrime, Reuters reported.

As part of what appears to have been an upbeat overview of the country’s ICT sector the Egyptian Minister of Communications and Information Technology recently highlighted some ambitious plans for local phone production.