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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EdgeConneX has set up a joint venture with a Philippines group to build two data centres in the Manila area and elsewhere.
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Tata Communications has launched a private 5G global centre of excellence (CoE) in Pune, India as it looks to accelerate Industry 4.0 applications for enterprises.
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Vantage has announced a third data centre on its Cyberjaya campus in Kuala Lumpur as it opens the second.
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Customers of Veon’s Banglalink are to benefit from faster 4G services after the company has started to use the new spectrum it procured in April 2022.
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Weeks after he retired as CEO of Telstra, Andy Penn appears to be regretting the company’s policy towards the National Broadband Network (NBN), the Australian government-owned wholesale network.
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Optus says it is investigating the possible unauthorised access of current and former customers’ information after a cyberattack.
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Satellite company Iridium is starting an exercise in the Indian and Pacific oceans next week to demonstrate its abilities to the Pentagon and other countries.
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The US government last night banned two Chinese companies, China Unicom and Pacific Network, from providing international telecoms services in the country.
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OneWeb will resume satellite launches in the next few weeks, using an Indian rocket instead of the Russian Soyuz rockets that have been blocked because of the war against Ukraine.
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Digicel Pacific – now owned by Telstra – has extended its partnership with satellite company SES to provide resilient communications to Tonga, which was cut off by a volcano earlier this year.
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India rivals China for the biggest population in the world. Sumit Mukhija, CEO of data centre operator STT GDC India, tells Alan Burkitt-Gray how the company is expanding to meet demand
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irix, formerly known as PPTEL, confirms the 'soft launch' of the Batam Sarawak International Cable System (BaSICS) cable and its Tier IV data centre (irix DC).
