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Retail Asia04/05/2018

KDDI is branching out into the emerging world of extended reality (XR) – which includes virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality – by forging partnership with US-based Osterhout Design Group (ODG) to jointly plan and develop XR-based smartglasses for the Japanese market. The Japanese operator is also teaming with various partners to conduct business trials and create XR services as the company moves toward […]

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Retail Asia03/05/2018

Alibaba Cloud and Hong Kong IT service provider Automated Systems Limited (ASL) have entered a strategic partnership aimed at facilitating the development of the cloud market in Hong Kong and Macau. Under the collaboration, both companies will collaborate on areas including go-to-market, solution creation, and cloud security services. The companies will also invest to create […]

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Retail Asia03/05/2018

Australia-based network as a service (NaaS) provider Megaport has introduced support for Google Cloud’s Partner Interconnect with its global SDN. The new service will allow Megaport customers to provide connectivity from their facility to the nearest Google edge PoP. Customers can select from a range of sub-rate interface speeds varying from 50Mbps up to 10Gpbs. […]

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Retail Asia03/05/2018

Australia’s Telstra will tomorrow launch Australia’s first unlimited smartphone-based mobile data plan, although the “unlimited” plan is subject to a data cap at 40GB. The new A$69 ($52) Telstra Endless Data BYO plans also come with unlimited talk, text and MMS to standard domestic numbers as well as unlimited Wi-Fi data at Telstra’s network of […]

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Retail Asia03/05/2018

Indonesia’s PT Telkom has reported a 14% decline in first quarter profit to 5.73 trillion rupiah ($410.8 million), partly as a result of stricter competition. Revenue for the quarter grew 4.3% to 32.3 trillion rupiah, but tighter competition and the ongoing decline in revenue from legacy voice and SMS revenue impeded further growth. Data, internet […]

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Retail Asia03/05/2018

Loss-making Indian state-controlled operator MTNL has approached the government seeking an allocation of 4G spectrum across two bands, in return for equity in the company. MTNL has written to the Telecom Department seeking spectrum in the 1800-MHz and 2100-MHz bands, arguing that a 4G presence is a must to survive in the mobile market. The […]

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Retail Asia03/05/2018

Telenor Pakistan, continuing its efforts to transform the Pakistani agriculture sector which is the primary source of livelihood for millions of Pakistani households, has partnered with LMKT, an IBM partner, to provide farmers across the country with localized and accurate weather forecasting data. The move aims to advance agricultural practices in Pakistan and educate farmers […]

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Retail Asia02/05/2018

Tencent Holdings Limited, a China based investment holding firm, and Tourism Malaysia are planning to jointly set up a data center in Cyberjaya, Malaysia. Sources claim that the strategic move is a part of the Smart Tourism 4.0 program launched recently in Malaysia. Under the new project, Tencent is expected to use the reproduction of […]

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Retail Asia01/05/2018

Juniper Networks has announced new enhancements to its unified cybersecurity platform, aimed at helping customers run their businesses with confidence and efficiency across locations and clouds. These enhancements simplify security operations by accelerating time to detection and orchestrating mitigation. The result is improved productivity and a stronger security posture across enterprise networks and cloud workloads whether […]

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Retail Asia01/05/2018

Telenor Myanmar and Ericsson have completed a trial of 1Gbps LTE-Advanced services using technologies including licensed assisted access (LAA). The trial also utilized LTE technologies including 256 quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM), 4×4 multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) and carrier aggregation, the companies said. According to Telenor Myanmar CEO Lars Erik Tellmann, the 1Gbps peak speeds were the fastest […]

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Retail Asia01/05/2018

Hong Kong conglomerate CK Hutchison Group has announced plans to merge its Sri Lankan mobile unit Hutch Lanka with UAE-based Etisalat’s mobile business in the nation Etisalat Lanka. The combined company will be majority owned and controlled by CK Hutchison, the company said in a statement. The merger is aimed at better positioning the companies to […]

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Retail Asia01/05/2018

The building US-China trade war could have an even more substantial impact on the telecommunications sector following reports that Huawei may be facing a criminal probe from the US Department of Justice. The Department of Justice is investigating allegations that Huawei violated US sanctions by selling equipment with US components to Iran. This is the […]

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Retail Asia01/05/2018

SUPERNAP Thailand, the recognized leader in colocation services, won “Excellence in Data Centre Service Award Southeast Asia” and the best “Data Centre Location Award” at Datacloud Asia 2018 held at the Capella Hotel in Singapore recently. It is the first time that a data center in Thailand won an award from the international premier conference […]

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Retail Asia01/05/2018

Huawei has unveiled its latest partner programs and strategic digitalization plans at the Huawei Enterprise Partner Summit 2018 in Hong Kong. The Chinese ICT infrastructure provider’s partner programs in Hong Kong will be focused on business development in fintech, smart city, healthcare, and large enterprises. Huawei meanwhile plans to deploy 20 open labs worldwide to develop […]

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Retail Asia30/04/2018

Indonesia’s telecom companies must vastly improve their customer service, the regulator has warned, after revealing that some providers had deliberately made their service worse in 2017. The likes of Telkomsel, Indosat and XL “dominate the list of worst-rated companies for customer service — behind even banks”. 13 per cent of mobile customers experience “poor service”, […]

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Retail Asia30/04/2018

With an ambition to better connect Pakistan and empower the Pakistani society, Telenor Pakistan, country’s foremost telecom and digital services provider, and QMobile have entered into the next phase of their long-standing collaboration ushering in a new era of 4G ecosystem development through the introduction of LT-100, an LTE-enabled low-cost smartphone. Telenor Pakistan and QMobile […]

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Retail Asia30/04/2018

Nokia has reported a sharp 59% decline in net profit for the first quarter of 2018 to €86 million ($104.1 million) due to the ongoing weakness in the telecoms equipment market. Revenue for the quarter fell 9% year-on-year to €4.93 billion, with networks revenue down 12% to €4.32 billion. The vendor said sales and profitability for […]

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Retail Asia27/04/2018

Hong Kong Broadband Network (HKBN) has promised to implement new data protection measures for its customer data in the next three months in response to a targeted cyberattack discovered last week. Under the new measures, all personal information of customers whose accounts have been closed will be kept for six months, instead of seven years, and […]

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Retail Asia27/04/2018

The Macau SAR government does not plan to have a separate license for 5G services, and will instead include 5G in its planned new technology neutral licenses for mobile service providers. The director of Macau’s Post and Telecommunication Bureau Derby Lau Wai Meng told that its proposed new communications convergence legislation will include 5G. The new legislation would […]

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Retail Asia27/04/2018

Japan’s NTT Docomo and Nokia are performing joint 5G technology trials using extremely high frequency 90-GHz millimeter wave (mmWave) spectrum. At the Brooklyn 5G Summit in New York this week, the companies are demonstrating the use of a Nokia Bell Labs-developed compact mmWave phased-array antenna system using an integrated circuit solution in the 90-GHz frequency band. The demonstration aims to show […]

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