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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Indian banks are in discussions about converting Vodafone Idea’s debts into equity, effectively taking over one of the country’s three main mobile operators.
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Eloise Walker and Catherine Robins from Pinsent Masons, explain how changes to the international tax system will affect telecoms and tech multinationals.
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Russia is reported to have begun work laying its Polar Express subsea cable valued at 65 billion roubles ($889 million).
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Intelsat is providing cellular backhaul services in French Guiana for Orange, via the Intelsat 10-02 satellite.
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The Indian government appears to have blinked first in its fight with its telecoms operators and others over back taxes worth billions.
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Indian 5G plans are being held up because a government department is not approving new equipment quickly enough, according to reports.
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TPG Telecom has deployed Nokia’s integrated 5G Interleaved Passive Active Antenna (IPAA) at its TPG Telecom site in Brisbane.
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Tata Communications saw a 14.9% year on year increase in profit after tax in Q1 FY2022, to US$40 million (INR 296 Crore), and growth of 0.7% in consolidate revenue quarter on quarter to $556 million.
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Network-as-a-service provider Megaport is extending the reach of its services through a new PartnerVantage programme aimed at system integrators, managed service providers and distributors, among others.
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HGC Group has teamed up with Deloitte Cyber to support Hong Kong-based companies eliminate the risk of cyberattacks.
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Nokia and Taiwan Mobile have claimed a world first in New Radio (NR) carrier aggregation (CA) by combining spectrum.
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Japanese group Rakuten is transforming itself into a vendor as well as an operator with an agreed bid for Altiostar, valuing the vendor at US$1 billion.
