Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) has landed a fat fajita of a contract in Mexico for a new carrier, Altan Redes. In what is the Finnish vendor's largest ever contract win in Latin America, Nokia will design, build and operate a new nationwide LTE network over the 700MHz band. The contract forms part of the Red Compartida (or Shared Network) project, a public-private partnership that is expected to generate a total investment of $7 billion over nine years.

Sky , the UK-based pay-TV giant, is hoping its acquisition of social content producer Diagonal View will help it engage better with a younger and more digitally savvy audience. Diagonal View's content, it says here, ranges from quantum physics to The Fresh Prince of Bel Air. We know which one we'll be watching.

Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) is to open its latest IoT & AI Insider Lab this month, in Munich, offering companies the chance to access Microsoft technology and its boffins' expertise in machine learning, AI and the cloud. Two other such labs are already up and running, one in Shenzhen, China and the other in Redmond, Wash.

Ericsson AB (Nasdaq: ERIC) says its new range of 600MHz products will be ready for commercial deployment in North America by the third quarter of 2017. US operators will receive access to the spectrum for wireless broadband services following the FCC's completion of the final phase on its incentive auction. Separately, the "Cicscosson" partnership of Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO) and Ericsson has secured its first contract in Brazil, supplying and installing IP routers for Nextel. (See Cisco + Ericsson: From Soup to Nuts.)

— Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, Light Reading