Cisco has announced plans to invest $100m in India, including $40m to fund early-stage and growth-stage companies and train 250,000 students in India by 2020. Cisco says it will collaborate closely with state governments in India on strategic initiatives including the addition of six new innovation labs, three centers of expertise, funded university collaborations and skills investments. The new activities form part of its global 'Country Digitization Acceleration' "whereby select countries across the world receive major strategic investment to accelerate…

Etisalat announced its consolidated financial statements for the 12 months ending December 31st 2015. Etisalat Group aggregate subscribers until 31 December 2015 reached 167 million. In the UAE the active subscriber base grew to 11.6 million subscribers in the fourth quarter of 2015 representing a year on year growth of 6%.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector investment arm of the World Bank Group, are to each provide $150m loan funding to Ooredoo Group's fully owned subsidiary Ooredoo Myanmar to expand its mobile network in Myanmar. Since Ooredoo's entrance into Myanmar it has provided 3G mobile coverage to more than 80 percent of the population. Ooredoo says the financing will support its strategy for Myanmar, enabling it to accelerate the reach for the…