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.
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Philippines operator PLDT has sold its tower infrastructure for 77 billion pesos (US$1.5 billion), while its rival, Globe, has said it is looking for “strategic partnerships” for its own infrastructure.
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Philippines fixed and mobile operator Globe more than doubled its fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) connections last year, the company has announced.
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Capacity shares five key stories making headlines around the world today.
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Digicel is fighting with the government of Papua New Guinea (PNG) over a demand that it pay in tax US$100 million if it sells its Pacific operations to Telstra.
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Meng Wanzhou (pictured), Huawei’s chief financial officer (CFO) will serve as rotating chairwoman of the company.
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The Philippines will be the first country in south-east Asia to be served by SpaceX’s Starlink satellite service, the government has announced.
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Singtel has bought Australian tower company Axicom in association with an Australian pension fund.
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Yondr Group has entered the Malaysian market with the launch of a 200MW hyperscale facility in JCorp’s 700-acre Sedenak Tech Park, formerly known as Kulai Iskandar Data Exchange (KIDEX).
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Following a series of Singapore focused announcements, BDx has moved its headquarters to Singapore, with the office set to open in April.
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Macquarie Data Centre’s latest facility in Sydney has been officially opened by Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison.
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One of the big operators in the Philippines says a new law on international shareholding will make “no impact” on it, but might bring in new players to the market.
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ZTE’s new management, put into place after the US discovered it was smuggling banned kit to Iran, means it is a different company now.
