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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Stack Infrastructure (STACK) has expanded its APAC partnership with ESR Group with the development of a new 72MW data centre campus in Osaka, Japan.
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Malaysia’s plan for a state-owned 5G network has hit a snag as the country’s newly appointed Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said that those plans were not formulated transparently.
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Australia’s state-owned wholesale broadband network has turned to Ericsson to expand reach with fixed wireless access (FWA) technology.
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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.
