Asia Pacific
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Intel is reportedly expanding its chip packaging and testing facility in Chengdu, China despite the embattled firm’s scaling back expansion projects in Europe. -
Nokia has expanded its work with Vietnamese service provider Viettel, with the operator set to deploy its optical transport solutions to scale network performance following their joint achievement of a record optical transmission speed.
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The 2024 Huawei Mobile Broadband Forum (MBBF) kicked off in Istanbul yesterday, with industry leaders gathering to discuss the future of mobile networks, artificial intelligence (AI), and digital transformation.
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Gopal Vittal, Bharti Airtel’s long-serving CEO will step aside in 2026 to be replaced by Shashwat Sharma.
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The US Treasury Department has issued a Final Rule restricting US investments in foreign technologies deemed to pose a “national security concern,” specifically targeting sectors like semiconductors, quantum technology, and AI.
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SK Telecom and Samsung have developed AI technology capable of optimising 5G base stations.
Forthcoming events
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Internet providers in Vietnam are facing severe problems as four out of five subsea cables that connect the country are experiencing issues.
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Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (IOH) has completed nationwide network integration in Indonesia using Multi Operator Core Network (MOCN) technology.
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Uzebkistan will benefit from advanced telecoms infrastructure as a result of a signed contract between Toyota Tsusho, Internet Initiative Japan (IIJ), NEC Corporation and NTT Com and local operator JSC Uzbektelecom.
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the launch of its second AWS infrastructure region in Australia, the AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region.
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A quantum computing company co-founded by a winner of last year’s Nobel Prize for physics has raised €100 million in funding.
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Australian data centre operator AirTrunk is to build a 150MW data centre in Malaysia, taking the group’s total capacity to 1.35GW.
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The US$150 million Philippine Domestic Cable Networks (PDSCN) is scheduled to be completed in April this year, according to Globe Telecom.
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The new 15,840km Southern Cross Next cable from Australia and New Zealand to the US, is now offering Ethernet services at 400Gbps.
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Aqua Comms has bought an Indian infrastructure company to further its project to build EMIC-1, the planned Europe Middle East India Connect subsea cable.
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Arelion has announced a new point of presence (PoP) in Osaka, Japan.
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Telecoms operators of Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan have signed their agreement on building not one subsea link across the Caspian Sea, as part of the Digital Silk Way project, but two.
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GreenGeeks, a green energy web hosting platform, confirms the launch of a new data centre location in Singapore.
