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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Far North Fiber’s Ethan Berkowitz tells Alan Burkitt-Gray that Japanese, US and European businesses have teamed up to build the first cross-Arctic cable, which will cut latency between Europe and Japan by 100ms
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Equinix confirms its market entry into Malaysia with plans to build a new International Business Exchange (IBX) data centre located in Johor, called JH1.
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Telstra has expanded its Telstra Private Cloud to Melbourne, following the successful launch of the service in Sydney in March.
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The APAC region was an early adopter of 5G and led implementation of the technology, but is falling behind. Saf Malik looks at why this is happening and whether 5G tower deals are now possibilities
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International Gateway Co (IGC), a subsidiary of ALT Telecom, and Zenlayer, have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to deliver edge networking services to Thailand and the Indochina region.
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SK Telecom (SKT) has signed an MoU with Singtel to grow the metaverse businesses where both operate, starting with Singapore.
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) confirms the launch of its second AWS infrastructure Region in India—the AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) region.
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India’s mobile companies are calling on operators of so-called over-the-top (OTT) apps to pay them for carrying their traffic.
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Veon is to sell its operations in Russia to the management for the equivalent of US$2.1 billion, more than twice the current market cap of the whole group.
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DigitalBridge Group has taken an ownership stake in AIMS Group from TIME dotcom Berhad.
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ESR Group has begun construction on its first 19.2MW data centre at Nanko Kita, Osaka, Japan.
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Google Cloud and Telkom Indonesia are to work together on a project to develop Indonesia’s digital economy, dubbed Indonesia Digital 2024.
