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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Nokia is launching a charging configurator microservice for its existing Nokia Converged Charging (NCC) solution.
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Eutelsat, which last week rejected a takeover offer from Patrick Drahi, has raised its stake in satellite company OneWeb to almost 23%.
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Ooredoo Group has selected Ericsson as its next-gen digital transformation partner for Business Support System (BSS) solutions.
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To support new, mission-critical applications associated with cloud architectures, 5G and Industry 4.0, IP networks must be trusted to provide guaranteed high-performance and secure connectivity.
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Infratil, the New Zealand company that owns CDC Data Centres in Australia, has taken a stake in UK-based Kao Data, to fund expansion plans.
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Telstra is the selected carrier for Microsoft Azure Peering Service and Operator Connect for Microsoft Teams.
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Avalon Campus gets bigger. Construction of Avalon 3, the new hyper-connected and sustainable Data Center in Milan, is under way.
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NEC Corporation (NEC), its subsidiary OCC Corporation and Sumitomo Electric Industries, (Sumitomo Electric) have completed the first trial of uncoupled 4-core submarine fibre cable.
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SoftBank has partnered with SES to deliver live sporting events in Japan.
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Google’s former Moonshot project, Loon, has transferred its patents to SoftBank for the Japanese company’s own balloon-based base station work.
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Rakuten Group has confirmed that it is preparing to list its online banking business, Rakuten Bank, for Initial Public Offering (IPO).
