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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Global management consulting firm Bain & Company has published its 2022 Global M&A report which found that telecoms M&A experienced a dramatic rebound during 2021.
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A very British approach to regulation; altimeter checks in Norway and the cold side of quantum computing
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Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison and Inligo Networks have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to build a new subsea cable system, Inligo Networks Asia Connect Cable System or ACC-1.
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Revenue and profit increased across the board for both América Móvil and Globe as the former reaped the rewards of its Tracfone sale and the latter reported its network investments had paid off.
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Telstra will build two major telecoms infrastructure projects in support of Australia's growing digital economy.
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX is in negotiations with Fiji’s telecoms operator Fintel to establish a ground station in the country as it helps restore internet connectivity.
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Activist investors; shareholding U-turns; and STL's Ankit Agarwal
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SpaceDC will be working with global real estate services firm JLL to build the largest data centre in the Philippines.
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6GHz WiFi spectrum is critical to enable technology innovation in Australia according to a new report.
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India’s finance minister has confirmed that a 5G airwaves auction will take place in the country later this year.
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Speaking at the Huawei webinar "5Grows Together: Innovation for a 5Gigaverse Society" on 13 January, Daisy Zhu, VP of wireless marketing, outlined how 5G is rapidly on the rise around the world, growing to over half a billion users since mobile operators started launching the technology two and a half years ago.
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NTT DOCOMO is to begin rolling out IPv6 single-stack support for selected DOCOMO devices, while Japan's other carriers continue operating with IPv4 addresses – for the time being.
