Asia Pacific
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Singtel-backed Australian operator Optus has been fined more than A$12 million (US$7.9 million) after it failed to provide access to emergency services following a nationwide outage. -
Full allocation of the 6GHz spectrum band to Wifi could significantly boost India's economy, according to the Dynamic Spectrum Alliance (DSA).
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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.
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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.
Forthcoming events
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HyperOne is preparing to tender the design, construction and operation work for Australia's first hyperscale national fibre backbone.
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There was much excitement a couple of years ago when the first 5G service was launched. 5G delivers a real step change in connectivity, capacity and latency that promises both faster download speeds and a host of new low-latency and machine-to-machine applications.
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Lendlease has confirmed its first data centre in Japan, a facility that it said will be "one of the largest of its scale" in the country.
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Vodafone Idea saw revenue fall by 4.7% quarter-on-quarter to INR91.5 billion (€1 billion) in the three months to the end of June.
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Facebook and Amazon have sought US government approval to operate a new subsea cable connecting Philippines and California.
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Google and Facebook have announced that they are to build Apricot, a new subsea cable connecting Singapore, Japan, Guam, the Philippines, Taiwan and Indonesia.
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Vocus has announced plans to deliver the first international subsea cable connection into Darwin, Australia.
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Subsea cable owner RTI Connectivity (RTI) and global convergence solutions company InterGlobix, have entered into a strategic business partnership agreement.
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NEXTDC has received planning permission for its 150MW hyperscale campus west of Melbourne.
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Hurricane Electric confirms the launch of a new point of presence (PoP) at Vocus Auckland - Albany in New Zealand.
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Hanwha Systems, a South Korean electronics and military equipment company, has become the latest investor in OneWeb, the satellite operator.
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Canadian lawyers for Huawei’s CFO have called for extradition proceedings to be halted, complaining about “widespread misconduct”.
