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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Capacity shares five key 5G stories to know for January 4, 2022.
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Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd is to provide backhaul services for "one of the world's largest MNOs", allowing it to deploy 4G voice and data services over LTE.
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Cinia has teamed with Far North Digital to build a fibre optic cable station that will link Europe and Asia through the Arctic.
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NEC has announced it has successfully demonstrated OpenRAN capabilities for the Global Plugfest event at five of its venues.
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China Mobile is aiming to raise up to 56 billion yuan ($8.8 billion) in the country’s biggest public offering for over a decade.
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EdgeConneX has announced it has made a strategic investment in leading data centre provider Chayora.
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BT and other wholesale partners of satellite company OneWeb will start testing services in January, Capacity understands, with commercial services likely to be on offer several months later.
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Southern Cross Cable Network (SX) has announced its NEXT cable (SX NEXT) has landed in Coogee beach in New South Wales, Australia as part of the final stage of the submarine cable rollout between Los Angeles and Sydney.
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Chile’s Desarrollo Pais has selected H2 Cable LP as its strategic partner for the development of the first submarine cable to connect Latin America with the Asia Pacific and Oceania.
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The US government last week recommended that Google and Meta’s undersea data cable to Asia should be approved for use.
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Southern Cross Cable Network (SX) has completed the marine lay portion of its new Southern Cross NEXT (SX NEXT) cable branch into Kiritimati, Kiribati.
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The viability of Dito, the new mobile competitor in the Philippines, is threatened by the US decision to ban China Telecom, says one of the country’s leading politicians.
