Service provider Bahrain Telecommunication Company (Batelco) has signed a deal with Nokia to sell the Finnish vendor’s various private LTE and 5G systems, plus edge componentry and industrial devices, to public agencies and private enterprises in the Kingdom of Bahrain, in West Asia. The...
US-based private cellular specialist Celona has set up in southeast Asia via a series of channel sales deals with carriers and integrators in South Korea, the Philippines, and Vietnam. It follows its move beyond its original confines in the CBRS market in the US...
Taiwanese telecoms operator Chunghwa Telecom has deployed a private 5G network for local electronics manufacturer Delta Electronics, in conjunction with state-owned telecommunications company National Telecom, formerly TOT PCL, and MVNO and IoT airtime provider The WhiteSpace. The network has been installed at Delta Electronics’...
The nordic telco eyes Southeast Asia expansion and maybe an IPO
Norwegian telco Telenor Group announced Tuesday the formation of Telenor Asia. Telenor described the new business group as “a more independent regional entity” based in Singapore, created to oversee the company’s efforts to expand...
Google has 20 announced subsea cable projects in operation or development across more than 200 countries and territories
Google revealed plans to build the world’s first subsea cable to connect Asia and Canada. The Topaz cable, expected to be finished in 2023, will run from...
The World Economic Forum (WEF) has added 13 new smart factories to its ‘global lighthouse network’ of flagship sites for advanced manufacturing; its total network, proclaimed for their use of “Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies”, now stretches to 103 manufacturing facilities and “value chains”. Besides,...
R. Ezhirpavai, Capgemini Engineering's global chief architect for 5G, whose friends and colleagues call her Pavai, talks about Altran's rebranding, the early hype of 5G and why some Asian operators are reluctant to move to the 5G cloud.
MPTC Minister: 'With the impending rollout of 5G, there is a lot at stake for Cambodia as a nation'
Operators in Cambodia have been proclaiming that they are prepared to launch commercial 5G services since last year but have been left waiting on government action....
Vietnam 5G services will launch without the help of Huawei
According to Vietnam’s Ministry of Information and Communications website, the southeast Asian country plans to launch commercial 5G mobile services this year and won’t be using Huawei equipment to do so.
Last year, the country’s largest...
Initial speed tests in Kazakhstan trial show a downlink speed of 1.0GB per second
Operating under the Beeline brand, VEON’s joint venture company in Kazakhstan, KaR-Tel, has launched a large-scale 5G network trial in Shymkent, Kazakhstan. The trial, conducted in partnership with Nokia, is integrated...
UK manufacturers are falling behind their counterparts in Asia and the US in the international race for industrial transformation. They are also bottom of the pile for integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into manufacturing processes.
These are the findings of a new study by PwC research...
Thai mobile operators paid $2.25B for 1800 MHz licenses
Thai mobile operators AIS and True won two licenses in the 1800 MHz band put up for bid by Thailand’s National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission.
The two-day auction raised a total of THB 80.8 billion...
SingTel ends latest fiscal quarter with 2M LTE subscribers in Singapore
Singapore Telecommunications reported a net profit of SG$1.03 billion ($704 million) for its second fiscal quarter of 2016, which ended Sept. 30, down 0.8% compared to the same quarter the previous fiscal year.
The operator’s...
The APAC region currently has half of the world’s mobile connections
SHANGHAI – The Asia-Pacific mobile industry contributes more than $1 trillion per year to the area economy, mainly due to the increasing penetration of mobile broadband and smartphones, according to a GSMA report.
The report...
The 3-year partnership between Telenor Group and the Wikimedia Foundation will cover users in India, Thailand, Malaysia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Montenegro and Serbia.
When it comes to investing in the cloud, European carriers are not keeping pace with operators in North America and Asia, according to new research from Informa’s Telecom Cloud Monitor. European operators accounted for only 7% of the US$13.5 billion that operators committed to...
Social game maker Zynga, whose titles include the hugely popular FarmVille, CityVille and FrontierVille Facebook games, is looking to take its first big step outside the giant social network's walls in a deal with Chinese social site Tencent.
Mobile video is the future of mobile value added services (VAS) according to Eamonn Kearns, VP of sales at Canadian communications firm Dialogic.
“Video is the new voice,” said Kearns speaking to RCR Wireless News in Singapore recently.
The deployment of 3G on a global scale...
BBC News |
The BBC's Cindy Sui visits one very successful Taiwanese firm - HTC - and examines the challenges facing other Asian technology companies.
For more information visit BBC News here
BBC News |
The BBC's Cindy Sui visits one very successful Taiwanese firm - HTC - and examines the challenges facing other Asian technology companies.
For more information visit BBC News here
Syniverse | June 27, 2011 | Press Release
Syniverse Mobile Video Broadcast Service receives Innovation Award
TAMPA, Fla. – June 27, 2011 – Judges of the inaugural Asia Communication Awards presented Syniverse with the prestigious Innovation Award in Singapore on Wednesday, June 22, recognizing the groundbreaking Syniverse...
Reuters | June 17, 2011 | Hyunjoo Jin and Jungyoun Park
SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics and other Asian technology stocks tumbled on Friday on fears the sputtering global economy will crimp demand for computers and TVs and hurt earnings at chip and panel makers for...
Infonetics Research | June 7, 2011
Campbell, CALIFORNIA, June 7, 2011—Market research firm Infonetics Research today released excerpts from its latest Fixed and Mobile Subscribers market forecast report.
ANALYST NOTE
"As we predicted, mobile broadband subscribers surpassed wireline broadband subscribers in 2010 (558 million vs. 500 million). Fixed-line...
Reuters | June 6, 2011 | Devidutta Tripathy and Tarmo Virki
NEW DELHI/HELSINKI, June 7 (Reuters) - From New Delhi to Shanghai to Johannesburg, a flood of cheap handsets from the likes of China's ZTE (0763.HK) and India's Micromax is destroying Nokia's top position in emerging markets.
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