Asia

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …

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 …

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 …