Asia Pacific
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Internet Exchange operator DE-CIX has partnered with submarine cable firm GCX to resell the IX’s India’s services to end global end customers. -
Mobily and Telecom Egypt have partnered to launch a submarine cable linking Saudi Arabia and Egypt via the Red Sea to expand connectivity in the region.
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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.
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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.
Forthcoming events
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India’s government has advised people not to subscribe to Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starlink Internet Services until it receives an operating license in the country.
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T-Systems has announced that it has reached Amazon Web Services (AWS) Premier Tier as a Consulting Partner
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Capacity shares five key stories from around the world making headlines today!
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EllaLink's new connection and KKR's latest spending spree
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HyperOne, Australia’s new national fibre network, is set to unlock the economic potential of regional Australia.
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RETN has upgraded its Europe to Asia gateway, TransKZ, adding a new route linking the Kazakh town of Dostyk with Beijing, and a new point of presence (PoP) in Beijing.
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Three Chinese operators including China Unicom have deployed Huawei’s 5G MetaAAU solution in Beijing, Hangzhou, Shanghai and Xiamen.
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CEO Andrew Kwok teases Alan Burkitt-Gray with promises of a significant announcement about the company’s digitisation ‘in the coming quarter’
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The cloud units of Alibaba and Baidu have been summoned by authorities in China to discuss fraud and cybersecurity.
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The Internet Initiative Japan (IIJ) has turned to Zella DC to launch a new edge data centre solution in the market, DX edge.
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Macquarie Telecom, part of Macquarie Telecom Group, confirms that it has deployed its SD-WAN services to 6,000 sites across Australia.
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KKR is among a few companies contemplating bidding for data centre company Global Switch Holdings.
