Asia Pacific
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Nokia has secured a contract extension with Taiwan Mobile to boost the performance and capacity of its 5G network and upgrade its 4G/LTE network. -
SK Telecom has unveiled plans to build an “AI infrastructure superhighway” which includes constructing gigawatt-scale data centres across Asia and the 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.
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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.
Forthcoming events
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Veon has completed a US$15 million investment as part of a Series A round of funding for Dastgyr, a Pakistani-based B2B e-commerce marketplace platform.
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XL Axiata, an Indonesian telco, has selected Juniper Networks’ Segment Routing over IPv6 (SRv6) and MX Series Universal Routing Platforms to bolster its network infrastructure.
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Stack Infrastructure (Stack) in partnership with Hickory, an Australian commercial real estate developer, to develop an Australian national data centre platform.
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As India’s 5G spectrum auction was again delayed, leading Indian telcos Airtel, Jio and Vodafone Idea have opposed plans to offer 5G spectrum to private captive networks, claiming it could provide back door entries to private companies.
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Deutsche Telekom Global Carrier has launched a new point-of-presence (PoP) in Singapore, using the Equinix SB1 location.
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Equinix is to build its third data centre in Mumbai, at a cost of more than US$86 million.
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Internet usage patterns in majority Muslim countries changed drastically as they observed Ramadan according to research from Ookla.
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The name “Telecom New Zealand” has finally disappeared from the industry’s landscape, with the decision to scrap the name TNZI, formerly the group’s global wholesale unit.
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ST Engineering iDirect and ComClark have announced a partnership that will improve connectivity for the Philippines’ public-school network.
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Regulators in Nigeria and Mozambique have approved the start of broadband satellite services via Starlink, part of Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
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Kazakhstan’s Kcell has successfully handed over 3G and 4G mobile signals between its terrestrial network and SES’s O3b satellites.
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As Canada finally followed its Five Eyes allies in banning Huawei and ZTE equipment, diverse supply chains become essential to ensure telcos are not reliant on a small handful of operators.
