Asia Pacific
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Filipino operator Now Telecom has lost its licence to operate after the country’s telco regulator ruled it failed to meet key regulatory and operational requirements. -
Microsoft is reportedly pulling the plug on additional data centre projects, with planned sites in Indonesia and Australia now joining a string of cancellations across the US, UK, and Europe, signalling a possible rethink of its AI strategy.
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AirTrunk is securing a US$1.7 billion (SG$2.2 billion) green loan to fund an 80.2MW data centre in Singapore—yet no one in the industry seems to know where this new facility will be located.
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Australia’s telecoms regulatory has laid out its views on options for the future use of spectrum licences, expressing favour in extending most licences due to expire between 2028 and 2032.
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Vodafone Idea has picked Nokia to upgrade and expand its optical metro and circle networks across India.
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A consortium in Japan is set to build an offshore floating green data centre, marking a major step in the evolution of sustainable AI infrastructure.
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Singtel has partnered with Singaporean defence and security agencies to deploy network slicing technologies to bolster the country’s national security.
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Southern Cross Cable claims to have connected the world’s first transpacific 1 terabits per second (Tb/s) single-carrier wavelength over the world’s longest single optical submarine cable segment.
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Telstra is set to launch a joint venture with Accenture to expand its use of AI across the business.
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DE-CIX has penned an agreement with Japanese ISP internet service provider (ISP) GLBB to provide its customers with access to its interconnection ecosystem.
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The Australian Government has unveiled a $3 billion equity injection to upgrade Australia’s remaining fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) network to fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP).
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SK Telecom has partnered with SK hynix and Penguin Solutions to jointly develop and offer AI data centre solutions.
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Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (IOH) and ZTE Corporation have joined forces to transform digital connectivity across Indonesia by deploying ZTE’s iFlexiTrunk microwave backbone technology.
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Telstra has partnered with SpaceX's Starlink to bring direct-to-device messaging to users in Australia.
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AWS is set to invest $5 billion in Thailand with the launch of a new cloud infrastructure region.
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Microsoft has continued its global cloud and AI infrastructure investing efforts, unveiling plans to spend $3 billion in India.
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Asia Pacific data centre operator Digital Edge has raised more than $1.6 billion to expand its services across the region.
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POET Technologies, which designs and develops photonic hardware for data centres, AI and telecom workloads, has completed its acquisition of Chinese photonics firm Super Photonics Integrated Circuit Xiamen Co (SPX).
