This week, we focus on companies that operate mainly in Asian and Middle Eastern markets.

Headquartered in Qatar, Ooredoo is a telecoms operator offering mobile, fixed, broadband and enterprise services in the Middle East, North Africa and Southeast Asia.

The South African regulator has introduced its new "innovation spectrum" plan, which opens up the 3.8-4.2 GHz and the lower 6 GHz band. A public consultation on the framework will…

Axiata Group Berhad is a Malaysian telecommunications group with investments across several Asian countries in mobile network operations, communications infrastructure and digital services.

Reliance Jio Infocomm is the largest mobile operator in India by subscriber count. It is also the second largest operator in the world using the same measure. Only China Mobile…

SoftBank Corp, part of the SoftBank Group headed by Masayoshi Son, is a Japanese mobile operator.

China Mobile, the largest mobile operator in the world, has more than one billion subscribers. It passed that particular milestone in June 2024. As of December 2024, the company had…

Moscow appears to be responding to operators’ demands to provide them with other spectrum for 5G apart from the 4.8-4.99 GHz band.

NTT Docomo is Japan’s largest mobile operator in terms of subscribers. The company also holds more spectrum than its rivals.

Bharti Airtel is the second-largest mobile operator in India and runs mobile networks in 14 African countries, with an ambitious parent company looking to expand its reach locally and overseas.

The National Telecommunications Commission, the country’s telecoms regulator, declined to renew the right of NOW Telecom to operate a mobile network using 3520-3540 MHz.

The Belarusian government has chosen to join the small group of countries planning to deploy 5G using a single wholesale network.

Māori-run communications provider Tū Ātea is building New Zealand’s first commercial 5G private network using 3.5 GHz spectrum.