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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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.
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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.
