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Kagan: Huawei Connect 2023 focused on connecting everything

The recent Huawei Connect 2023 event in Paris showed how as wireless, telecom and data networks continue to grow, they will ultimately connect everyone and everything. The theme of this year-end event was “Accelerating Digital and Green Transition Together" and shows what was accomplished...

Kagan: Huawei showed off 5.5G and FWA progress at MBBF 2023

A few weeks ago, at a wireless conference in Dubai, Huawei showed their progress and the direction for the next several years. In fact, every wireless company worldwide will experience these same growth opportunities. So, let’s take a closer look at where the wireless...

Nokia and NTT in private 5G Thai-up private network services in Thailand

NTT is to resell Nokia's private cellular and edge cloud system to a total addressable market of 3.2 million enterprises in Thailand – in line with the country's Thailand 5.0 scheme Global system integrator NTT is to resell Nokia's private cellular and edge compute...

‘Millions of sensors’ – LoRa Alliance trumpets H1 LoRaWAN surge in APAC

The LoRa Alliance has trumpeted growth in the Asia Pacific region, ahead of its bi-annual meetup in Tokyo in October. It claimed “millions of sensors” have been added in the region in the first half of 2023 on the backs of “large projects” in...

GSMA predicts rapid 5G growth in APAC region

The GSMA expects 5G connections to account for 41% of all mobile connections by 2030 According to the GSMA’s new Mobile Economy APAC 2023 report, the Asia Pacific (APAC) region is experiencing exponential 5G growth, with next-gen connections predicted to account for 41% of all mobile connections...

Nepal Telecom postpones 5G trials, says there aren’t enough devices

Nepal Telecom plans to conduct the 5G trial using the 2600 MHz frequency band State-owned Nepal Telecom has postponed its 5G trial by several weeks, citing a dearth of compatible mobile devices. Specifically, the carrier will conduct its trial using the 2.6 GHz airwaves that...

AMD and Viettel complete 5G silicon trial in Vietnam

Viettel began testing commercial 5G services in parts of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City in 2019 AMD announced the successful completion of a 5G mobile network field trial with Viettel Group’s R&D arm Viettel High Tech (VHT). AMD supplied its Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC devices for...

$300M Asia Link Cable to connect China and Southeast Asia

The project, led by China Telecom and Singtel, will add 18 TBps of regional capacity A group of Communication Service Providers (CSPs) servicing the Asia Pacific region announced Tuesday a shared investment of $300 million to develop a 6,000 kilometer (km) submarine cable system in...

Lumen brings edge services to APAC

Edge Bare Metal service’s first APAC deployment was for Solana Foundation’s blockchain efforts, said Lumen Lumen Technologies has announced the launch of edge services for the Asia Pacific (APAC) region. Lumen’s Edge Bare Metal services provide access to the company’s distributed edge network of high-capacity bare-metal...

Brunei kicks off 5G trial

Brunei launched a 5G pilot project in April 2021 to demonstrate 5G proof-of-concept network environments The Authority for Info-communications Technology Industry of Brunei Darussalam (AITI) announced that the Asian country is officially beginning 5G trials. The (AITI) is working with wholesale telecommunications provider Unified National...

Globe Telecom sells thousands of towers in $1.28 billion deal

Globe Telecom has sold more than 5,700 of its mobile towers, with another 1,350 towers pending Filipino carrier Globe Telecom has confirmed the sale of 5,709 cellular towers in a deal worth $1.28 billion. According to the telco, the majority of the funds will go...

APAC smart electricity metering market to reach 1.1bn units in 2027: Study

The APAC smart electricity metering market will grow at a CAGR of 6.2% during the 2021-2027 period   The smart electricity metering market in Asia-Pacific is expected to reach 1.1 billion units in 2027, up compared to 757.7 million in 2021, according to a report from...

Singtel, SK Telecom test interconnected 5G MEC with cloud gaming demo

In 2021, cloud gaming revenue is expected to be over $1 billion for the first time Bridge Alliance, which is made up of operators and their customers in the Asia Pacific, the Middle East and Africa, announced that two alliance members, SK Telecom and SingTel, have successfully completed the...

Hong Kong regains title as strongest APAC cloud nation

Hong Kong reclaimed the title of strongest APAC cloud nation from Singapore Hong Kong has reclaimed the lead over Singapore when it comes to cloud readiness in the Asia Pacific region (APAC), according to the Asia Cloud Computing Association (ACCA). In the ACCA’s 2020 cloud...

5G in Singapore: StarHub open to network, spectrum sharing

StarHub looking beyond eMBB to 5G for URLLC With 5G on track to launch in Singapore and 2020, the three carriers are waiting for state regulators to finalize spectrum allocation before moving forward with plans to bypass non-standalone 5G networks like those in the U.S....

Surging 5G investments in APAC fuels RAN market, according to report

5G growth in the APAC region was 3x to 4x the size of the incremental LTE growth A recently published report from Dell’Oro Group revealed that healthy LTE growth and surging 5G investments in the Asia Pacific region added fuel to the Radio Access Networks (RAN) market upswing that began...

Cisco, Google bring high-speed, public Wi-Fi to India

Cisco and Google's partnership in India is part of the global initiative to scale accessible, reliable Wi-Fi Cisco announced early this week that it has teamed up with Google to provide free, high-speed Wi-Fi to 200 locations across India in the next two months. The...

Can (will) U.S. operators learn anything from Korea’s shared 5G deployment model?

If 5G is a race the US needs to win, why not run faster? In the U.S., Verizon and AT&T have deployed 5G in parts of some cities. T-Mobile says it can offer nationwide service in the 2020 timeframe but that largely hinges on...

APEJ region to lead in terms of IoT spending in 2019, IDC says

  China and South Korea are the top markets in terms of IoT adoption within the region, according to the study   Spending on the internet of things in the Asia/Pacific region excluding Japan (APEJ) is forecasted to reach $381.8 billion by 2022, according to a new...

5G spectrum roundup: Asia-Pacific

Some of the countries where commercial 5G technology will be a reality sooner than in other markets are located in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region. South Korean telcos will be allowed to start using 5G frequencies for commercial services at the end of this year...

Orange Business Services launches LPWAN connectivity offering in Hong Kong

The LPWAN provider is targeting apps like energy and fluid management, on-site tracking, geo-fencing, waste control, environmental metering France-based business communications provider Orange Business Services has launched its IoT Connect Anywhere, a low-power wide area network (LPWAN) connectivity solution, in markets including Hong Kong, Asian...

SoftBank telecom business moving toward $21 billion IPO

IPO will give SoftBank more capital to invest in tech, startups, sharing economy With approval from Japanese financial regulators in hand, SoftBank is working toward a $21.04 billion initial public offering of its telecom business. SoftBank plans to keep around two-thirds of shares in the...

Report: Officials exploring merger of China Telecom and China Unicom

Combined carrier would be second largest behind China Mobile An eye on 5G leadership, Chinese authorities are considering a potential merger of China Telecom and China Unicom, two of the nation's three mobile operators, according to a report from Bloomberg. Citing "people familiar with the matter,"...

Ciena surges in Q3 on APAC demand, DT deal

Strong demand in India contributes to Ciena revenue growth Ciena reported its third quarter financials this week and strong growth in the APAC region, along with other positive trends, resulted in Q3 revenues of $819 million up more than 12% from the same quarter last...