Asia Pacific
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Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison is working with GoTo to launch an open source language model designed for local Indonesian languages. -
US security agencies claim Chinese-affiliated hackers are conducting a “broad and significant cyber espionage campaign” against US telco operators.
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Vietnamese carrier Viettel has launched an Open RAN 5G Network, leveraging hardware from Qualcomm to provide enhanced connectivity across the country.
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) has been ordered to halt shipments of AI-related chips to Chinese customers by US export officials.
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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.
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Full allocation of the 6GHz spectrum band to Wifi could significantly boost India's economy, according to the Dynamic Spectrum Alliance (DSA).
Forthcoming events
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Microsoft is to build its first data centre in Malaysia as part of a $1 billion investment in the country over the next five years.
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Nokia is to install equipment from its AirScale portfolio across South Korea following an agreement with LG Uplus.
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Facebook has signed a major deal to buy clean wind power from a company in India to help power its offices and data centres in Asia.
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Fujitsu Australia is now deploying NVIDIA’s DGX AI compute infrastructure, which uses AI to solve complex data science problems faster, via "the world’s most advanced accelerator".
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Brunei’s Unified National Networks Sdn Bhd (UNN) has appointed BICS as its main provider of managed roaming services.
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Telecoms giant Bharti Airtel, which owns mobile operations in Africa as well as India and Sri Lanka, is to split its business into four separate units.
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Season 2, episode 13 is presented by deputy editor Melanie Mingas and features editor-at-large Alan Burkitt-Gray, senior reporter Natalie Bannerman, and special guests Hannes Gredler and Richard Brandon from RtBrick.
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Korea's SK Telecom is to split into two companies: an AI and digital infraco, and a division tentatively called the ICT Investment Company.
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Nigeria and Oman have joined the Digital Cooperation Organization (DCO) at its first meeting in Riyadh this week, joining Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.
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Semiconductor firm Xilinx Inc and telecommunications software firm Mavenir Inc have embarked on a project they said will accelerate the Open RAN ecosystem.
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Globe Telecom, leveraging HPE’s new multi-access edge compute (MEC) solution.
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Singapore-based data centre operator Princeton Digital Group (PDG) has secured US$230 million debt refinancing from China Merchants Bank, as part of its $1 billion expansion plan in China.
