Asia Pacific
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The Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) of Taiwan has partnered with the UK’s Digital Catapult to drive forward Open RAN innovation. -
Colt Data Centre Services (Colt DCS) has formed a joint venture with investment firm RMZ to invest $1.7 billion in the Indian data centre market.
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Samsung Electronics has inaugurated its new semiconductor research and development facility, NRD-K, in Korea.
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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.
Forthcoming events
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The importance of diversity and inclusion has only increased as we become more connected across time zones, businesses and locations.
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With a global pandemic, major geopolitical developments, bankruptcies, landmark legal events in europe and a global recession, the first half of 2020 packed in more than the last decade... And there’s still another half to complete. Melanie Mingas explores the outlook to year end and the factors that could shape the industry.
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OneWeb’s new launch plans; Seoul’s $315m data centre; T-Mobile’s deal with American Tower and malware on smartphones
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Avaroa Cable Ltd (ACL) and the OPT Group through its subsidiary ONATi in French Polynesia, are partnering to deliver the first international fibre cable connectivity to the Cook Islands.
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Australia’s NBN Co is to invest A$4.5 billion as it continues highspeed internet rollouts across Australia that will create 25,000 jobs.
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OneWeb is to re-start satellite launched in December and plans to have most of its fleet in service by the end of 2022.
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As with most industries, for a long time women were excluded from the telecommunications and tech industry in general. Nowadays that has fortunately changed, however women are still a minority in the industry and often under-recognized.
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Mobile network operators are being urged to step up their security game after a series of scandals involving malware on devices.
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The Philippines’ NOW Telecom has been granted an extension of its provisional authority, allowing it to operate as the country’s fourth telco.
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Edgecore Networks has announced the launch of MLTG-Series, a 60 GHz mmWave PTP/PTMP solution that can deliver multi-gigabit speeds.
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Private equity firm Actis is set to take a 75% stake in a new joint venture with GS E&C, the construction arm of GS Group - one of Korea’s largest conglomerates.
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Chinese data centre operator GDS Holdings Limited (NASDAQ: GDS) has extended a legally-binding offer to acquire 100% of the equity interests in target companies which own a major data centre in the Shunyi district of Beijing. It is expected to be fully utilised in 2022.
