(AETOS Wire) -- Andersen Global today announced a collaboration agreement with Țuca Zbârcea & Asociații, a law firm with offices in Bucharest and Cluj-Napoca and its tax arm, Țuca Zbârcea & Asociații Tax. This is the first collaboration agreement in Romania, and continues Andersen Global’s expansion in Eastern Europe.

Țuca Zbârcea & Asociații is a full-service independent"...

(AETOS Wire)-- China’s mobile ecosystem added RMB5.2 trillion ($750 billion) in value to the country’s economy last year, equivalent to 5.5 per cent of China’s GDP in 20181, according to a new GSMA report. The data features in the first ever China edition of the GSMA’s Mobile Economy report series, which is published today at a special roundtable event in Beijing to discuss the latest developments in the Chinese mobile industry as it enters the 5G era.

Her Excellency Sheikha Hind bint Hamad Al Thani, Vice Chairperson and CEO of Qatar Foundation (QF), attended the closing ceremony of the fifth edition of the International Universities Arabic Debating Championship (IUDC) organized by QatarDebate, a member of QF.

The championship – held under the patronage of Her Excellency Sheikha Hind bint Hamad Al Thani – took place at Qatar National Convention Centre from March 16-20, 2019, and included"...

The mobile network operator, Zain has resumed its operations in Duk Pagak County of South Sudan’s Jonglei State last week after it was shutdown in 2013, a local official said on Sunday.

The county commissioner, James Yien Jal told Radio Tamazuj that resumption of the mobile network’s operations has excited citizens.

Yien said the locals can now connect to relatives"...

To mark the 30th anniversary of the invention of the worldwide web, Africa-focussed venture capital firm TLcom hosted Internet founder and pioneer, Sir Tim Berners-Lee at Westwood Hotel, Ikoyi, Lagos on Tuesday 13 March. The VC firm welcomed Sir Tim to an intimate tech industry reception, with key figures from Africa’s tech community in attendance, including Elo Umeh, CEO of Terragon and Etop Ikpe, CEO of Cars45.

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India’s embattled Jet Airways put photographs of smiling women employees on social media last week for Women’s Day, using the tagline “Standing tall; touching the skies” but few passengers reacted cheerfully.
“‘Touching the skies’ is a good joke at a time when your flights are getting grounded,” said a respondent on Twitter, while others expressed anger and dismay at cancellations, delays in refunds and long response times to telephone calls.
India’s second-largest"...

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Microsoft Corp. and Telecom Egypt have announced their collaboration to extend Microsoft's cloud network to Egypt.

Telecom Egypt will provide low-latency connectivity into and across Egypt to help enhance performance and increase reliability for customers of Microsoft services. The partnership will increase Microsoft's reach to the large Egyptian market in addition to improving connectivity across North Africa and the Middle East.

Liquid Telecom South Africa, part of the pan-African telecoms group Liquid Telecom, has secured its first customer MTN, to offer 4G roaming to millions of South Africans.

This includes LTE services to fuel the growing demand for high speed mobile broadband. The wholesale roaming service will be made available across Liquid Telecom’s network nationwide.

According"...

(JUBA) - South Sudan’s telecoms agency decided to increase call tariffs by 40 per cent due to face inflation and the falling exchange rate of South Sudanese pound.

There are only two cell companies in South Sudan, Kuwaiti Zain and South African MTN. Both say they are facing difficulties but project to overcome the current losses in the future.

South Sudan’s"...