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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Equinix and Options, the financial services data connectivity provider, have joined forces to provide increased connectivity and low latency services through Singapore.
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The new Europe-to-India cable that Aqua Comms will manage will be the first of a number of new subsea investments by the company’s owner, Digital 9 Infrastructure.
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TPG Telecom is upgrading its subsea cable between Australia and Guam, PPC-1, with Infinera’s ICE6 800G solution.
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Google is launching a new cloud region in Melbourne, Australia, tomorrow (29 July).
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The owner of Aqua Comms is making its first new investment in a subsea cable following its US$215 million takeover in April.
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ZTE has launched AIVO3.0 to combine granular understanding and modelling of user experience with detailed network analyses and measurements. Capacity spoke to Wang Qiang, Vice President of ZTE Corporation and General Manager of BDS Products, to find out more.
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Yondr Group has formed a $1 billion joint venture with Everstone Group to open hyperscale data centres in India.
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The president of Jasmine Telecom Systems (JTS) has outlined how he plans to make the Thai operator the largest bitcoin miner in the ASEAN region by 2024.
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A Singapore-based shipping company, BW Group, has bought the Hawaiki subsea cable operation for an undisclosed price.
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Infrastructure REIT DigitalBridge has acquired the data centre business of PCCW for $750 million, covering a number of data centres in Hong Kong, China and Malaysia.
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The last day to submit an entry to the Global Carrier Awards 2021, is 29 July.
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SUB.CO confirms that its Oman Australia Cable (OAC) has made landfall in Perth, Australia.
