Asia Pacific
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Intel is reportedly expanding its chip packaging and testing facility in Chengdu, China despite the embattled firm’s scaling back expansion projects in Europe. -
Nokia has expanded its work with Vietnamese service provider Viettel, with the operator set to deploy its optical transport solutions to scale network performance following their joint achievement of a record optical transmission speed.
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The 2024 Huawei Mobile Broadband Forum (MBBF) kicked off in Istanbul yesterday, with industry leaders gathering to discuss the future of mobile networks, artificial intelligence (AI), and digital transformation.
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Gopal Vittal, Bharti Airtel’s long-serving CEO will step aside in 2026 to be replaced by Shashwat Sharma.
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The US Treasury Department has issued a Final Rule restricting US investments in foreign technologies deemed to pose a “national security concern,” specifically targeting sectors like semiconductors, quantum technology, and AI.
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SK Telecom and Samsung have developed AI technology capable of optimising 5G base stations.
Forthcoming events
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HGC Global Communications Limited (HGC) has launched the Data Center Interconnect (DCI) in Bangkok, which is designed to boost connectivity in the city by interconnecting seven major data centres.
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Singtel and Hitachi will collaborate on next-generation data centres and GPU Cloud in Japan and potentially the wider Asia Pacific region under the lead of Singtel’s Digital InfraCo unit.
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BDx Indonesia, Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (IOH), Lintasarta and NeutraDC, a subsidiary of Telkom Indonesia have launched the first phase of its interconnected internet exchange (IX) ecosystem in Indonesia.
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Tech Mahindra has teamed with Google Cloud to boost generative AI (Gen AI) adoption and lead digital transformation for various entities of Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M), one of India’s leading industrial enterprises.
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2Africa Pearls, IAX, and IEX subsea cable projects set to launch between October and March
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Bharti Global will become BT’s biggest shareholder after buying a 25% stake, worth US$4 billion from Altice.
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Singtel has today unveiled Southeast Asia’s first national quantum-safe network plus (NQSN+), an initiative that employs cutting-edge quantum security solutions to shield enterprises from emerging quantum threats.
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BDx Indonesia, a joint venture (JV) of BDx Data Centers, Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison has completed phase 1 of its AI campus CGK4 in Jatiluhur, Indonesia.
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Australia is committing $18 million to a cable connectivity and resilience centre to help undersea cable networks in the Indo-Pacific area.
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Telekom Malaysia (TM) and Singtel’s Digital InfraCo unit Nxera have broken ground on a sustainable, hyperconnected data centre campus in Johor, Malaysia.
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The UK Government has launched the UK-India Technology Security Initiative to foster critical collaboration on telecom security and stimulate investment in emerging technologies.
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Fibre broadband and technology provider Converge ICT Solutions (Converge) has announced a partnership with Ribbon Communications (Ribbon) to boost performance on its Filipino fibre network.
