Aptilo Networks, a provider of systems to manage data services with functions for authentication, policy control and charging, announces Aptilo SMP Wi-Fi Calling, a 3GPP AAA application for the Aptilo Service Management Platform (SMP) to enable Wi-Fi Calling.

Nuage Networks, the Alcatel-Lucent start-up venture focused on SDN (software-defined networking) solutions announced that CTCC, the Cloud Computing Branch of China Telecom, has selected its SDN technology to help deliver scalable, self-serve public cloud services in China’s cloud computing market.

Nuance Communications, Inc. announced that it has partnered with CT-IN to deliver a new cloud-based voice messaging solution in Vietnam with Vinaphone, a mobile network provider. As a result, Vinaphone’s mobile subscriber base of more than 30 million people will have access to a voice messaging system that will provide them with both recorded audio messages and their transcriptions. The launch also marks Nuance’s first ever voicemail-to-text deployment in Asia.

Orange and pan-African banking group Ecobank have rolled out a service that will enable Orange Money subscribers who also have bank accounts with Ecobank to transfer money between their respective accounts. The service has already been launched in Mali and will be rolled-out in several other African countries, including Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea Conakry, Niger, Senegal and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, during the first half of 2015.