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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Analysis from GlobalData claims that initial public offerings (IPOs) in the telecoms, media and technology (TMT) space increased 72% last year when compared to 2020.
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Softbank Group has a new leadership line-up and speculation is mounting that further appointments – and departures – could be confirmed in the coming weeks.
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CITIC Telecom International CPC Limited (CITIC Telecom CPC) has appointed Brook Wong (Ching Wa Wong) as its new chief executive officer (CEO).
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Reconnecting Tonga; rebuffing KKR; digital investments down under; and BDx's Braham Singh
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Bharti Airtel (Airtel) and Google are to partner on a long-term, multi-year agreement to accelerate the growth of India’s digital ecosystem.
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NEC Corporation has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Blue Danube Systems.
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Satellites have reconnected Tonga in the south Pacific following the volcano disaster two weeks ago – but the 105,000 population have less than 20% of the capacity they are used to via subsea cable.
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Bharti Airtel subsidiary Airtel Africa will join the Financial Times Stock Exchange (FTSE) 100 on January 31, 2022.
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Lightstorm is to provide direct connectivity to DE-CIX’s Internet Exchanges from over 45 multi-tenant data centres (MTDC) where Lightstorm has a presence.
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Digital Realty has opened its first data centre in South Korea, and the first carrier-neutral facility in the country.
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Jazz, the Pakistani offshoot of the Veon telecoms group, has started a 300-rack data centre in the country’s capital, Islamabad.
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Airtel’s data centres and switching centres in the Indian state of Maharashtra are to be powered by a new, 21MW solar plant.
