APAC

Through the deal, Reliance Group enterprise IoT customers will have access to IBM Watson platform IBM and Unlimit, a business venture of Indian conglomerate Reliance Group, have announced a strategic …

HKT is partnering Huawei on a customer-centric approach to digital transformation HONG KONG–Hong Kong telecom operator HKT is currently undergoing a process to implement an integral digital transformation process in …

Namyangju has a population of 650,000 and is located 25 kilometers northeast of Seoul in the Republic of Korea. City leaders have been continuously promoting smart city project since 2008. …

The two firms will carry out tests on the 4.5GHz band across a number of cities in Japan Ericsson and Japanese telco KDDI have inked an agreement to test a …

Millimeter wave spectrum provides the kind of capacity that 5G promises, but it comes with tricky propagation characteristics. Right now, particularly in the U.S., operators are tapping millimeter wave spectrum …

New SoftBank test builds on trial focused on 28 GHz Japanese mobile telephony operator SoftBank plans to work with Ericsson to conduct a joint trial of 5G in the 4.5 …

The new body will cooperate with the Indian government to pave the way for the future deployment of 5G technologies The cellular operators association of India (COAI) has officially launched …

Government providing funds to operators to install new fiber optic infrastructure nationwide The Japanese government is already working to develop better fiber optic and other technologies to meet the future …

Local telco KaR-Tel will offer IoT for smart meters, connected cars, retail and agriculture through Cisco Jasper’s platform KaR-Tel, a mobile and network service provider in Kazakhstan, has announced a …

The telco said it will cooperate with a number of partners from various industries in the 5G space China Telecom said it expects to trial 5G networks in six cities …

China Unicom is the latest operator to launch gigabit LTE Ericsson and its rival Nokia have been leading gigabit LTE trials and launches around the world with the latest activation …

The firm aims to deploy an IoT network in Australia and New Zealand covering 95% of population by the end of 2017 The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC), which manages …

The telco expects to carry out 5G field trials in China over the next two years China Mobile, the world’s largest mobile telephony operator in terms of subscribers, will wait …

The new 5G solution is being tested in Seoul, SK Telecom says Korean  operator SK Telecom has developed a 5G repeater and applied it to its 5G trial network deployed …

Singtel said the new network will support CAT-M1 and NB-IoT technologies Singapore telecommunications company Singtel confirmed that it will roll out its nationwide cellular IoT network by end-September. The Asian …

The transaction, valued at more than $180 million. is expected to be complete by the end of this month Japanese telecom operator KDDI Corporation confirmed it will acquire the outstanding …

Under the terms of the agreement, Alibaba will provide cloud computing technologies to help Macau transform into a smart city Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group has signed a strategic partnership …

The Asia Pacific (APAC) region has several smart cities under development, mainly grouped in countries such as China, Japan, South Korea and Singapore. Here we describe three of the region’s …

The new digitalization hub will develop IoT solutions and help the country become a smart nation German company Siemens announced the establishment of a digitalization hub in Singapore to develop …

The Taiwanese firm also announced NB-IoT cooperation with China Mobile Taiwanese chipmaker MediaTek has recently unveiled its first narrow band internet of things (NB-IoT) system-on-chip (SoC). MediaTek’s new low-power MT2625 …

 The NB-IoT system will allow will allow firms to reduce energy consumption Chinese vendor ZTE Corporation has announced the release of its narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) intelligent energy management system globally. …

Test of 5G NR in 3.5 GHz band included massive MIMO; achieved 2 Gbps throughput As the 3GPP continues its work to create a 5G NR (New Radio) specification, vendors …

The Chinese carrier is conducting 5G field trials with ZTE and Huawei in Guangzhou and Shanghai SHANGHAI–China Unicom has not yet defined a timeline for the commercial launch of 5G …

China Mobile expects to carry out 5G interoperability tests in 20 cities across China next year SHANGHAI–China Mobile, the largest mobile operator in the world by subscriber numbers, expects to …

The GSMA further expects APAC will have 670 million 5G connections by 2025 SHANGHAI- China and India will account for almost half of all new mobile subscribers expected to be …