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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Life is about to heat up for Chinese equipment vendor ZTE, as the company stands accused by the US of conspiring to commit visa fraud.
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The US has revoked the licences to operate of two subsidiaries of China’s CITIC Telecom International Holdings
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The Indian government is reportedly considering lowering the price for 5G spectrum for its auction that is set to take place later this year.
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Rakuten Symphony snaps up Robin.io and telco cloud IP
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In this episode of the Digital Digest, we roundup the biggest stories of the week from tower sales to contract announcements and the use cases for 6G.
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Capacity shares five key stories making headlines around the world today.
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China Telecom has taken the latest step to exit the US following its ban by the US regulator.
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Macquarie Telecom Group is partnering with Blacktree Technology to deliver defence-ready data co-location services.
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The economic potential of unlicensed access to the 6 GHz band could add up to US$187.63 billion to the Indonesian economy, and up an accumulated $150.19 billion to the economies of Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa.
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ICT arm of PLDT is set to build the additional data centre capacity in Santa Rosa, Laguna province
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Vodafone is looking to sell its entire 28.1% stake in India’s largest cell tower firm Indus Towers according to several reports.
