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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International bandwidth is expected to surge at a compound annual growth rate of 38% between 2021 and 2028, TeleGeography reports.
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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.
