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.
Forthcoming events
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Actis has appointed a former AWS exec to head its data centre investments as it looks to expand its portfolio in Africa, Asia and other key regional markets.
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Data centre investors and occupiers in the Asia-Pacific region have a new point of contact at JLL.
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Australian group TPG Telecom, which merged with Vodafone Hutchison Australia (VHA) in 2020, has agreed a network-sharing deal with rival operator Telstra.
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Princeton Digital Group has raised more than US$500 million in an equity fundraise that saw three investors backing the firm.
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Japanese operator KDDI has chosen Californian vendor Wind River for its O-RAN-compliant 5G virtualised base station plans.
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Digitalisation and a new corporate strategy are paying off for Axiata Group Berhad according to its full year 2021 financial results.
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NEC Corporation confirms the general availability of its 4G/5G Converged Core.
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Tonga has been reconnected to the world’s subsea cable networks, nearly six weeks after a volcano blew an 80km gap in it.
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SubCom and the SEA-ME-WE 6 consortium confirm that contract is in force and it has started the supply and installation of the SEA-ME-WE 6 subsea cable.
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The European Union is challenging China’s use of its courts to block non-Chinese telecoms vendors from backing their patents.
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China Mobile is building an optical network to connect the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao area.
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True and Total Access Communication – AKA Dtac – have received approval from their respective boards and entered into an agreement to create the new, listed telecom-tech company, they first announced last year.
