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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Colt has followed the sale of 12 edge colocation centres across Europe by announcing expansion of its hyperscale data centres in Europe and the Asia-Pacific regions.
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SK Telecom has announced the launch of the ‘SK ICT Alliance’ to jointly develop and invest in convergence technologies alongside SK Square and SK Hynix.
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IBM confirms that LG Electronics has joined the IBM Quantum Network to advance industry applications of quantum computing.
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In this episode of the Digital Digest, we roundup the biggest stories of the week from Subsea cables to roaming charges and satellite launches.
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STL has announced its commitment to become a carbon-neutral company by 2030.
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SK Telecom and Qualcomm have discussed the possibility of working together at CES 2022.
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KT Corporation, NTT DOCOMO and Fujitsu have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to further their cooperation on a 5G Open RAN Ecosystem.
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Hughes Network Systems and Bharti Airtel have formed a JV to combine their VSAT operations to provide satellite broadband services in India.
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Ooredoo group and CK Hutchison have completed the merger of Indosat Ooredoo and H3I, after receiving all required shareholder and regulatory approvals.
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Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite internet venture has been informed by the Indian government to refund all pre-orders in the country.
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The metaverse will converge and build on what already exists, while tapping into evolving technologies like sound waves, to transform this into a new fully immersive, persistent, and sensory environment. Haifa El Ashkar, executive director corporate strategy, CSG, writes
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#ICYMI - Capacity shares five key telecoms stories that were making headlines in December!
