Asia Pacific
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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.
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Macquarie Asset Management and Warburg Pincus, another private equity firm, are closing in on an investment in Chinese data centre firm Bohao Internet Data Services.
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India’s 5G launch is imminent, Ashwini Vaishnaw, the country’s telecoms minister revealed on Twitter.
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PLDT has fired up the US-Transpacific Jupiter Cable system, which is the Philippines’ fastest direct data cable link to the US and Japan.
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Philippines-based Globe Telecom has agreed to sell and lease back over 5,700 of its mobile towers.
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TPG Telecom, Australia’s second-largest telecoms provider has selected Adtran’s Gfast fibre extension to roll out gigabit services in the country.
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Colt has announced it has reduced the latency between the Singapore and Australia exchanges, realising the fast connectivity in the market of less than 87ms.
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Flow Digital Infrastructure has agreed to buy DXN Limited for around US$17 million.
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Insurance firm Ping An says it will trial a new data centre that will set a “benchmark” for energy-saving and emission-reduction technology in China’s financial data centres.
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The new owners of Superloop’s former business in Hong Kong and Singapore have relaunched the company as Xenith Infrastructure Group (Xenith IG).
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North Asian private equity firm MBK Partners has joined the list of investment firms reportedly considering an offer for Chinese data centre company Vnet.
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Telstra and Microsoft have expanded their partnership to support Australia’s digital growth.
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Zayo says it has introduced a new, fast route from Japan to the west coast of the US, with further links to Chicago, Dallas and New York.
