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.”
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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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Google Cloud and Axiata Enterprise, the B2B unit of Axiata Group, have formed a strategic partnership to support digitalising economies across Asia.
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Global infrastructure investor Actis has strengthened its data centre capabilities in Korea through an exclusive partnership with local industry expert ADIK.
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The creation of Celcom Digi Berhad is "a matter of days or a week" away from completion, according to Axiata CEO Izzaddin Idris.
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ST Telemedia Global Data Centres India has started construction on a $150 million data centre on a new greenfield site in Noida, Uttar Pradesh.
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Singapore's Digital Edge has moved into the Indonesian data centre market by acquiring a controlling interest in Indonet for $165 million.
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Lawyers for Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou have told a Canadian court that documents released to them by HSBC should be withheld from publication.
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OneWeb has applied to the Indian government for a licence to provide personal satellite communications.
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Korean mobile operator LG Uplus is to build a $268 million hyperscale data centre in Anyang, Gyeonggi, south of Seoul.
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Equinix and Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC are adding $3.9 billion to their xScale data centre joint venture, which will add over 20 hyperscale facilities to their global portfolio.
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SK Telecom is splitting into two companies, with an technology investment unit to be spun off in November.
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Toshiba’s UK laboratory in Cambridge has pushed the distance for secure quantum communications to 600km.
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Altice takes BT stake; Colony Capital rebrands; QTS breaks records; and Ivo Ivanov talks Space-IX