News from Asia-Pacific

Regulation

5G spectrum auctions on the way in Pakistan and Indonesia

Pakistan and Indonesia are preparing to auction 5G spectrum in the near future.

Regulation

TikTok shopping ends in Indonesia after government ban

TikTok, the short-form video hosting service owned by Chinese internet technology company ByteDance, has ended its online retail operation in...

Wireless Networks

Low-priced IoT for all? SoftBank announces massive APAC initiative

SoftBank Corp, the telecommunications subsidiary of the investment holding company SoftBank Group Corp, has announced that from October 2023 it...

Data Centres & Networks

Tier IV data centre planned for Borneo

Sabah, a Malaysian state located on the northern portion of Borneo, in the East Malaysia region, is to play host to a Tier IV data centre worth...

Consumer Ecosystems

PROEN boosts digital experiences in Thailand with CDN from Qwilt and Cisco

Thailand’s PROEN Corp has deployed Qwilt and Cisco’s Open Edge Content Delivery Network (CDN) solution to improve the quality and delivery...

Operators

Filipino Court of Appeals throws out NOW Telecom’s NTC case

A legal case brought against the Philippines’ National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) by operator NOW Telecom has been dismissed by the...

Wireless Networks

India gears up for 6G as IIT-K and InterDigital announce research deal

The Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur (IIT-K) and InterDigital, a mobile and video technology research and development company, have...

Yokke and SBPS partner to boost cashless payment ecosystem in Indonesia

Mobile Finance

Yokke and SBPS partner to boost payments ecosystem in Indonesia

Indonesian fintech firm Yokke has formed a strategic partnership with Japan’s SB Payment Service Corp, a unit of SoftBank.

Data Centres & Networks

PLDT plans 12th data centre for B2B upgrade

PLDT’s enterprise subsidiary ePLDT is set to invest US$600 million to build its 12th data centre facility in the Philippines, a move to remain...

Operators

Globe Telecom sells off fintech stake for $40m

Globe Telecom struck a deal to sell off its 77% stake in fintech company Electronic Commerce Payments (ECPay) to Mynt for PHP2.3 billion (US$40.7...

Operators

Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison strives for growth through Indonesian unconnected

Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (IOH) CEO Vikram Sinha pointed to 22 million new subscribers from rural locations in Indonesia as an opportunity for...

Optical & Fixed Networks

NEC completes Patara-2 submarine cable for Telkom Indonesia

Telkom Indonesia’s Patara-2 submarine cable system, supplied by NEC, is now complete and operational.

Operators

Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison Unleashes Infinite Possibilities in Empowering Indonesia

Copenhagen, September 20, 2023 – Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (“IOH” or “Indosat”) will celebrate its 56th anniversary this year. Since officially...

Optical & Fixed Networks

Allo taps Infinera’s ICE-X and XTM Solutions in Malaysia

Allo Technology is implementing Infinera’s ICE-X intelligent coherent pluggables and XTM Series to boost its nationwide optical network and...

Satellite Networks

Breakthrough for 5G NTN deployment in China

In what could be a significant development for space-based 5G, operator China Telecom, technology giant ZTE and Beijing-based company SpaceIoT...

Operators

Globe partners with ISPs to combat online piracy

Globe Telecom partnered with the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) and four ISPs to fight back against piracy and protect...

Satellite Networks

MEASAT provides broadband access for Malaysia’s rural schools

Malaysia’s rural broadband service provider MEASAT says it is now connecting close to 600 school sites in remote locations throughout the country...

Optical & Fixed Networks

Subsea cable ADC gets capacity boost, while TEAS gets financial boost

Subsea cable developments continue to make headlines, with two more news stories just announced, this time relating to Asia Direct Cable (ADC)...

Data Centres & Networks

iFLYTEK and Huawei Jointly Initiate the Gemini Star Program

At Huawei Connect 2023, iFLYTEK and Huawei Data Center Network (DCN) initiated a joint innovation project to build a super-connectivity AI...

Operators

Globe Telecom bags $263m loan

Globe Telecom secured a PHP15 billion (US$263 million) loan from Metropolitan Bank & Trust Company to finance its network upgrade and debt...

Data Centres & Networks

PDG launches its new Indonesian data centre

Data centre provider Princeton Digital Group (PDG), has launched its 22MW hyperscale data centre facility Jakarta Cibitung 2 (JC2) in Greater...

TM Forum president and CEO Nik Willetts opened Digital Transformation World 2023 with a stark message for the telecoms industry, claiming it is at a “crisis point” where it faces being left behind by the “very revolution we’ve created”.

Operators

Key takeaways from Digital Transformation World 2023

TM Forum president and CEO Nik Willetts (pictured) opened Digital Transformation World 2023 with a stark message for the telecoms industry,...

Wireless Networks

CMRI, ZTE and Guangzhou MINO Equipment sign 5G-A MOU

ZTE has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with China Mobile Research Institute and Guangzhou MINO Equipment to cooperate on 5G-A...

Operators

DITO Telecommunity lands $3.9bn loan for rollout

Philippines-based challenger operator DITO Telecommunity secured a 15-year US$3.9 billion loan from a group of multinational banks to fund its...

Mobile Finance

WhatsApp launches in-chat payments service in India

Text and voice service WhatsApp has expanded its fast-growing payment offering in its biggest market with this week’s news that it has launched...

Energy & Sustainability

Can telecoms drive greener transport in Qatar and Malaysia?

The role of telecommunications in managing traffic, supporting the cars of the future and, potentially, helping the environment has been...

XL Axiata and Smartfren merger is back on the table

Operators

Kemkominfo confirms XL Axiata-Smartfren merger is back on the table

Indonesia’s Ministry of Communication and Informatics, known locally as KemKominfo, has confirmed that talks are underway regarding a merger of...

Wireless Networks

Fixed wireless access: India’s new 5G battleground?

Leading Indian operator Reliance Jio has now launched its long-promised 5G fixed wireless access (FWA) service. It’s called JioAirFiber and is...

Satellite Networks

Bahrain and India look to space for IoT and cloud solutions

Two recent agreements, in Bahrain and India, underline the growing importance of the space sector in areas like IoT and the cloud.

Vendors

Malaysia’s DNB and Ericsson claim RAN software first

Malaysian wholesale 5G provider Digital Nasional Berhad (DNB) will be the first network in Southeast Asia to use Ericsson’s new radio access...

Cloud & Virtualisation

PLDT selects Amdocs for cloud migration and modernisation

PLDT and its mobile unit Smart Communications have tapped Amdocs to accelerate their cloud modernisation on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Operators

National Telecom, AIS strike roaming deal

Thai state-owned operator National Telecom (NT) rented RAN gear from AIS to enable its commercial 5G strategy, with the latter tapping into the...

Data Centres & Networks

Data centre company EdgeConneX announces its arrival in Malaysia

Data centre solutions company EdgeConneX is in the news again, this time with the announcement of its entrance into the Malaysian market.

Satellite Networks

Thaicom selects Airbus for new high-throughput satellite

Thaicom, an Asian satellite and space tech company headquartered in Bangkok, has announced the selection of Airbus, one of the world’s leading...

Operators

Link Net covers streaming upgrade with Cisco, Qwilt

Indonesian fixed broadband and TV provider Link Net partnered with Cisco and cloud firm Qwilt to upgrade its capacity in a move to enhance...

Operators

Axiata seals PLDT tower deal

Malaysian operator Axiata Group sealed the acquisition and leaseback of 2,710 from PLDT for its Philippines tower company subsidiary.

Data Centres & Networks

Aquatech and Datavolt partner for sustainable data centre development

Provider of water and process technology solutions Aquatech Systems, headquartered in India, and Saudi Arabia-based data centre developer and...

Wireless Networks

5.5G (5G-A) has come to reality

By helping to support a step by step network evolution path, soon to be standardized 5.5G (5G-A) technology will represent a milestone in mobile...

Operators

Now Corp partners with Fortinet for cybersecurity upgrade

Now Corp entered an MoU with cybersecurity firm Fortinet to enhance 5G security in the Philippines and progress the country’s digital...

Mobile Finance

Nagad connects with TerraPay for Bangladesh remittances

Nagad Limited, a mobile financial service provider in Bangladesh, has joined forces with TerraPay, a global payments network. The aim, the...

Devices & Platforms

Globe launches phone trade-in programme

Philippines operator Globe Telecom partnered with insurance technology company Bolttech to launch a mobile phone trade-in programme to spur...

Operators

XL Axiata, Smartfren revive merger talks

The parent companies of Indonesian operators XL Axiata and Smartfren Telecom have reopened discussions to merge telecom operations in Indonesia,...

Mobile Finance

Partnership announced to extend reach of digital rupee in India

IDEMIA, a major name in identity technologies and biometric solutions, has partnered with Airtel Payments Bank, which serves over 40 million...

Operators

Maxis trials 6GHz spectrum

Malaysian operator Maxis conducted a trial of 6GHz spectrum with Universiti Malaysia (UM), as the operator looks to improve network traffic and...

Regulation

Monkey picture passes Philippines SIM registration

The Philippines National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) found a flaw in the country’s new SIM registration system, by using a photo of an animal...

Investment

Jio bets big on 5G SA with major loan from BNP Paribas

India's largest operator, Reliance Jio Infocomm, is said to be raising up to $2 billion in offshore loans with major international banking...

Investment

China to put even more money into semiconductors

A more than US$40 billion boost for China’s semiconductor sector could be on the way, as reports – officially unconfirmed but widely reported –...

Devices & Platforms

Indonesia smartphone shipments to stabilise

Smartphone shipments in Indonesia declined for the eighth quarter in a row but analyst company IDC forecast a better H2 for the market as...

Data Centres & Networks

Data centre announcements in Kenya and India emphasise renewables

Green energy is a regular – indeed necessary – part of most data centre development announcements these days. In fact in two recent cases – in...

Consumer Ecosystems

IOH and China Mobile collaborating on digital business

Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with China Mobile.

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