Asia Pacific
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T-Mobile’s cybersecurity chief has come out in support of the company’s security measures after it was targeted by Chinese-linked hackers, saying its defences “worked as designed.” -
Google is expanding its Australia Connect initiative with two new subsea cables connecting Australia with Christmas Island.
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A former US telecom and IT worker was sentenced to four years in prison for passing on information about Chinese dissidents to the Chinese government.
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The Taiwan Semiconductor Research Institute (TSRI), part of the National Applied Research Laboratories, has purchased its first full-stack superconducting quantum computer from IQM Quantum Computers, a global leader in quantum technology.
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Recent damage to undersea cables in the Baltic Sea has sparked fears of sabotage, but experts urge caution before assigning blame.
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The Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) of Taiwan has partnered with the UK’s Digital Catapult to drive forward Open RAN innovation.
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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.
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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.
