Asia Pacific
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Recent damage to undersea cables in the Baltic Sea has sparked fears of sabotage, but experts urge caution before assigning blame. -
The Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) of Taiwan has partnered with the UK’s Digital Catapult to drive forward Open RAN innovation.
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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.
Forthcoming events
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Australian carrier Vocus is to acquire Challenge Networks, which provides 4G and 5G private mobile networks.
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Two SoftBank companies have launched a 10Gbps broadband service for enterprise customers in a wholesale deal with rival operator NTT.
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Latvia-based carrier Avelacom has expanded its network to Hong Kong and appointed Timothy Wong to be VP of sales in the Asia Pacific
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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.
