Asia Pacific
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Samsung Electronics has inaugurated its new semiconductor research and development facility, NRD-K, in Korea. -
SK Telecom has launched a customer service centre tool driven by a proprietary AI model tailored to enhance agents' handling of customer queries.
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Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison is working with GoTo to launch an open source language model designed for local Indonesian languages.
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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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Australian telco Telstra has reached a settlement with Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) to pay A$50 million ($36.8 million) for mis-selling its services to indigenous customers.
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Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX) has announced an initial investment of $55 million to build its third IBX data centre in Osaka, Japan.
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US investor Digital Colony has made its second new investment in towers in two days, by buying Eco-Site, just a day after it bought Phoenix Towers in Brazil.
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PCCW Global has formed a new collaboration with RingCentral to provide on-demand private network connections to RingCentral’s global unified communication services.
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21Vianet Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: VNET) announced its unaudited financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2020.
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With over 185 million internet users, Indonesia is one of the biggest online markets worldwide. As of July 2020, online penetration in the country stood at over 68%.
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Hawaiki Submarine Cable LP is to deploy Ciena’s WaveLogic 5 Extreme solution to meet fluctuating capacity demands.
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US nano-satellite company Swarm Technologies has launched its latest 24 satellites, using a launchpad on New Zealand’s Māhia peninsula operated by Rocket Lab.
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Nokia has been appointed to deliver IoT services on behalf of China Mobile IoT (CMIoT).
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Airtel founder Sunil Mittal will be executive chairman of the revived satellite company OneWeb, which has emerged from US bankruptcy protection.
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NEC, the vendor that is already supplying open-source 5G equipment to Japan’s Rakuten, is to set up a centre of excellence in the UK.
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Mobile operators are set to earn more than $52.2 billion from RCS by 2028, according to the findings of a report by business messaging intelligence company, Mobilesquared.
