Asia Pacific
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Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison is working with GoTo to launch an open source language model designed for local Indonesian languages. -
US security agencies claim Chinese-affiliated hackers are conducting a “broad and significant cyber espionage campaign” against US telco operators.
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Vietnamese carrier Viettel has launched an Open RAN 5G Network, leveraging hardware from Qualcomm to provide enhanced connectivity across the country.
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) has been ordered to halt shipments of AI-related chips to Chinese customers by US export officials.
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Singtel-backed Australian operator Optus has been fined more than A$12 million (US$7.9 million) after it failed to provide access to emergency services following a nationwide outage.
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Full allocation of the 6GHz spectrum band to Wifi could significantly boost India's economy, according to the Dynamic Spectrum Alliance (DSA).
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Google Cloud announced the promotion of Karan Bajwa (pictured) as its new leader for Asia Pacific. He currently leads Google Cloud in India.
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Yuen Kuan Moon, the new group CEO of Singtel, has started in his new role.
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Reliance Industries Limited has called on the Indian government to intervene and end what it has described as "illegal acts of vandalism by miscreants" in Punjab and Haryana.
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SK Telecom has announced the launch of ‘SKT 5GX Edge’, the first 5G edge cloud service in Korea, in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS).
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The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) has halted its plan to delist the shares of China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom.
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Industry veteran Sangho Jo has been appointed president and CEO of Southeast Asia and Oceania at Samsung.
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The biggest stock exchange in the US is to delist shares of three Chinese telcos in the latest move in the deepening financial battle between the US and China.
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Capacity shares 5 key stories from around the world making headlines today!
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Rounding off a tumultuous year TMT deals didn’t stop over the holiday season.
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Australians have started the year debating the future of its national broadband project after a government minister declared it “built and fully operational”.
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Telecom Egypt provides Google with a TransEgypt meshed solution and Mediterranean capacity to EuropeCairo, 04 January 2021: Telecom Egypt, Egypt’s first integrated telecom operator and one of the largest subsea cables operators in the region, signed an agreement with Google to provide Google with the first of its kind layer three meshed solution on multiple Telecom Egypt’s redundant and resilient Egypt crossing network infrastructure.
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Consolidation activity across the TMT space reached fever pitch this year, driven mostly by the pandemic.
