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 US Department of Commerce has added Huawei to the country’s Entity List, restricting the firm’s access to items produced domestically and abroad from US technology and software.
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RETN has selected Accedian’s Skylight solution to monitor its network and services with continuous microsecond-level performance visibility.
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Indosat Ooredoo has partnered with cloud networking firm NetFoundry to develop network-as-a-service (NaaS) solutions that can be introduced to the industry.
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Shenzhen has set a number of new records after achieving its target of blanket 5G coverage before the end of August 2020.
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Megaport Limited (Megaport) confirms the upcoming release of Megaport Virtual Edge (MVE).
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Three of the world’s top five economies are now in recession, after Japan recorded a 7.8% decline in GDP, April to June.
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MEF has begun its work to define Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) services as part of its certified MEF 3.0 network services.
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The telecoms industry has not faced sterner test than the Covid-19 crisis.
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PLDT Enterprise has selected NetFoundry to extend the PLDT Zero-Trust Acceleration Platform (ZAP) to the cloud.
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New regulations in India are likely to result in a full ban against ZTE and Huawei participating in the country’s 5G trials.
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This episode features editor-in-chief Joao Marques Lima, editor-at-large Alan Burkitt-Gray, deputy editor Melanie Mingas and senior reporters Abigail Opiah and Natalie Bannerman.
