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.
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Four UK government departments are considering moves to spend millions to enable some of the country’s surviving telecoms engineering talent to rebuild a manufacturing capability.
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Qualcomm Ventures, the investment arm of Qualcomm Incorporated, has taken a 1.5% equity stake in Jio Platforms for US$97 million as the Indian telco looks to advance 5G services.
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Technology is going to become regionalised, but “that does not mean that a full splinternet is inevitable”, says a new report from Fitch Solutions.
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Vodafone New Zealand has become the country’s first provider to deploy technology with a transmission capacity of 800 billion bits per second.
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Australia’s wholesale-only National Broadband Network (NBN) has announced plans to cut 800 jobs.
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The owner of PCCW Global is looking at options for the international carrier following toughening relations between the US and China, especially following China’s new security law for Hong Kong.
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Appointments in global and national businesses confirmed by CEO Jason Goodall (pictured).
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Huawei says it will take “months” to assess the impact of tightening restrictions on using chips designed with US patents.
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The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) is actively checking on mobile providers to ensure they comply with new rules to protect customers from porting fraud and ID theft.
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Adoption of blockchain-based solutions is increasing across the business world, with TMT, financial services and non-food manufacturing industries identified as leading the trend.
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Three major telcos in South Korea have collaborated with an insurance firm to launch the blockchain-based Mobile Notification Service (MNS) for insurance customers.
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The US is on the verge of winning its battle to persuade the UK to ban Huawei from its telecoms networks, says a former spy chief.
