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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Google will open its first data centre in Japan in Inzai City, Chiba in 2023.
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STL is collaborating with Vocus Group for its Project Horizon, 2000km fibre cable link, in Western Australia.
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Equinix confirms its expansion to Indonesia with plans for a $74 million International Business Exchange (IBX) data centre in Jakarta.
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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.
