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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Veon and Amdocs have today announced a seven-year agreement that will enable digital services for Veon customers in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.
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Jian Wen, vice director in ZTE’s corporate branding & communications department, about the equipment maker’s contribution toward a carbon neutral future
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Tokyo has been named as the world's largest retail colocation market with 13.8 million square feet of gross retail capacity reported in 2021.
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Nokia has announced that its 5G Core is serving Asia Pacific Telecom’s (APT) live 5G Non-Standalone (NSA) and VoLTE service.
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PLDT is to build a "first of its kind" hyperscale data centre in the Philippines designed to Tier-3 standards and Tier-4 ready once operations begin.
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Digicel Group has entered into an agreement to sell its subsidiary Digicel Pacific, to a subsidiary of Australian telco Telstra Corporation, at a purchase price of $1.6 billion.
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As reporting season kicks off for the latest quarter, AT&T, Tata Communications and Zain KSA have all posted their latest earnings.
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Toshiba says that it has developed photonic integrated circuits that can use quantum technology to encrypt metro communications with speeds of 100Gbps.
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Nokia has deployed its 5G standalone (SA) core network for Taiwan Mobile.
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Connections to 5G networks worldwide remain on track to triple this year to 637 million and more than double in 2022 to 1.34 billion according to predictions from CCS Insight.
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HGC Global Communications Limited (HGC) has appointed Cliff Tam as its senior vice president of global data strategy and operations, international business.
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The 17th annual Global Carrier Awards (GCAs) was back live in London during this year's Capacity Europe conference.
