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.
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OneWeb has revived the idea that India might launch its future satellites.
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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.
