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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Finland's Cinia and Japan's ARTERIA Networks (ARTERIA) have formed a joint collaboration to build a subsea cable system linking Europe and Asia through the Arctic.
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The US financial regulator has made South Korean telco KT pay a total of US$6.3 million for bribing politicians in South Korea and Vietnam.
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Capacity shares 5 key stories to watch from around the world today.
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Ericsson broke rules in Iraq for an eight-year period in the last decade – just when the US was saying Huawei and ZTE was selling equipment to Iran, against US sanctions.
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Mike Foster, the former CEO of Fujitsu A/NZ has been named as the new director of the strategic growth, defence and national security portfolio at Macquarie Government.
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Pakistan’s 5G spectrum auction will be concluded by the end of this year or early next year according to Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) chairman Amir Azeem Bajwa.
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Jio Platforms Limited (JPL) and SES have formed a joint venture – Jio Space Technology Limited – to deliver broadband services in India leveraging satellite technology.
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Capacity is now accepting entries for its annual 20 Women to Watch power list!
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The Singapore-based DC Alliance is to "explore the commercial viability" of a tier-rated data centre in the Republic of Palau following an MoU with the Pacific Blockchain Corporation and the launch of a Digital Residency scheme in the country.
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400Gbps technologies are expected to drive service provider router market growth, according to a report by Dell’Oro Group.
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Last month’s volcano destroyed or damaged more than 80km of subsea cable connecting the Pacific islands of Tonga to Fiji.
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China Telecom and Huawei have completed the lab verification of a 200G+ large-capacity transmission system.
