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.
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Télécoms Sans Frontières (TSF) is the official charity partner for International Telecoms Week in 2021.
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Mantra Data Centers is investing $1 billion to develop data centres in different Indian regions.
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Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou is due to appear in court tomorrow in Canada for the start of a long extradition trial.
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Radware's telecoms customers saw attack volumes amounting to 18TB per month in Q2, with an average of 600 attacks every 30 days.
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The chairman of the company that owns 27% of Indian mobile operator Vodafone Idea has offered to transfer the group’s entire shareholding to the government to help stave off collapse.
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Malaysian telco Axiata is set to become the second integrated operator in neighbouring Indonesia if talks with Linknet go well.
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The next generation of mobile communications will need to offer 100% global coverage with guaranteed service levels, according to SoftBank’s head of advanced technology.
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STL has partnered with Microsoft to bring a cloud-native OSS/BSS solution to the market.
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India’s giant industrial group Tata is to invest nearly US$250 million in telecoms equipment company Tejas Networks.
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China Mobile International (CMI) has developed an open IoT platform to unify the smart home ecosystem for telcos, service providers, device makers and retail brands in Europe.
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Total international bandwidth more than quadrupled between 2016 and 2020, to exceed 2 Pbps.
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Google has confirmed two subsea cable projects linking the Middle East with southern Europe and Asia, are to be built and delivered in collaboration with Sparkle.
