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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Epsilon Telecommunications (Epsilon) has launched three points of presence (PoPs) in South Korea.
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Blackstone Group has entered the Asian data centre market with the planned launch of two hyperscale data centres in India.
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The Asia-Pacific (APAC) region is viewed as an area of ample potential, and investment groups are actively pursuing ways to establish a foothold in the region’s data centre industry, a report from datacenterHawk indicates.
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Telstra Corporation (Telstra), Optus Internet (Optus), and TPG Internet (TPG), have been ordered by the Australian Federal Court to pay penalties of $33.5 million.
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AdaniConneX confirms the opening of Chennai 1, its hyperscale data centre campus located at SIPCOT IT Park in Chennai, India.
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DE-CIX and GetaFIX, the Philippines’ largest neutral IX, have partnered to connect the Philippines to DE-CIX’s Southeast Asian distributed interconnection ecosystem.
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Digicel Pacific is bolstering its coverage in Papua New Guinea using SES’s O3b medium-earth orbit (MEO) satellite system.
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Kacific Broadband Satellites has installed resilient infrastructure for Tonga’s state-owned telecoms company, to make connections more secure after this year’s volcano.
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Indian state-run operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is reportedly considering partnerships with Jio for its 4G and 5G national network upgrade.
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Telstra has expanded ground stations in Perth and Merredin, Western Australia with additional antennas to support the I-6 F1 satellite from Inmarsat.
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Four Malaysian mobile operators say they have agreed to use the government’s state-owned 5G network, paving the way for an increased rollout in the country.
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The science arm of the Australian state of Victoria is taking a stake in quantum computing company ColdQuanta to set up a new research unit in Melbourne.
