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Nokia has signed frame agreements with China's big three operators worth more than €2 billion ($2.28 billion), covering the supply of wireless and fixed networking equipment and related services.

The contracts with China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom were signed at the China International Import Expo in Shanghai yesterday. They are valid through to the end of next year.

Participants at the Global Infrastructure Forum 2018 agreed that scaling up infrastructure investment requires nuance, innovation, and cooperation.

The Malaysian government has announced a 1 billion ringgit ($239.7 million) initiative to improve the nation's telecoms connectivity in the market in order to promote growth of its digital economy.

The allocation for the National Fiberisation and Connectivity Plan (NFCP) was announced in the government's recent Budget, the New Straits Times reported.

It will focus on expanding…

The Philippines' Globe Telecom has reported a nearly 37% increase in net profit for the first nine months of 2018 to 15.1 billion pesos ($284.5 million) as a result of strong demand for mobile data.

The operator closed the nine month period with consolidated service revenue of 101.9 billion pesos, up 9% year-on-year.

Mobile revenue increased 8% to 79.13 billion pesos, with…

ITU re-elects Zhao Houlin secretary-general

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has announced the re-election of Zhao Houlin as ITU secretary-general during its 20th Plenipotentiary Conference in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Zhao (pictured) will begin his second, and last, four-year term on 1 January 2019, the ITU said in a statement.

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