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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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.
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AirTrunk has announced plans to build a new 110MW hyperscale data centre in West Tokyo, named AirTrunk TOK2 (TOK2).
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5G upload speeds that support enterprise applications are disappointing according to Cellsmart’s Global Cellular Performance study.
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HGC Global Communications has established an agreement with Digital Realty to boost customers’ edge connectivity.
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SoftBank is setting up a high-altitude platform company to improve rural mobile coverage, in Australia with Lendlease, a multinational construction, property and infrastructure company.
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The US$350 million Southern Cross NEXT submarine cable that will connect Sydney, Auckland and Los Angeles has been granted provisional acceptance.
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Avaroa Cable, which operates the Cook Islands’ subsea connection, has appointed Mike Schwarz as its new CEO, taking over from Ranulf Scarbrough.
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NTT has announced the launch of its new hyperscale data centre campus with its first data centre in Mumbai, India.
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While exercising during Melbourne’s long, hard Covid lockdown, Brian Evans conceived the idea of a new subsea connection between east Asia, Australia and the US. Alan Burkitt-Gray asks about his grand plan
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The cloud is forcing change in product delivery and marketing strategy, and PCCW Global is reacting to it all, CEO Marc Halbfinger tells Alan Burkitt-Gray
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Swarmio has teamed with the Philippines’ largest telco operator Globe Telecom to launch its Ember gaming platform across the country.
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Singapore company UnaBiz has rescued Sigfox and its French subsidiary from bankruptcy by buying up the companies via the Commercial Court of Toulouse.
