Category: Telecom

Retail Asia08/11/2017
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SK Telecom has reported a 4.7% year-on-year increase in revenue for the third quarter to 4.44 trillion won ($3.99 billion), on the back of a solid performance across the operator’s core segments. Net profit surged 146.2% year-on-year to 793 billion won due to higher gains on the operator’s equity method investment in chipmaker subsidiary SK Hynix. Mobile service […]

Retail Asia07/11/2017
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Telstra has announced the acquisition of GPS and telematics fleet management solutions provider MTData in a bid which the incumbent says will boost its IoT offerings in the global connected vehicle market.  Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. MTData was founded in 2003 and has operations in New Zealand, the US, Canada and the Middle East as […]

Retail Asia07/11/2017
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Singapore’s StarHub has reported an 11% decline in net profit for the third quarter of 2017 to S$77 million ($56.6 million), partly as a result of lower core service revenue. Service revenue fell 0.7% to S$545 million, with mobile revenue down 2.3% to S$297 million, broadband revenue declining 1.5% to S$53.2 million and pay TV revenue falling 7.9% to […]

Retail Asia07/11/2017
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Struggling Indian operator Reliance Communications will stop offering 2G voice services in eight circles from December as a cost saving measure. Telecoms regulator Trai has issued a direction stating that RCom plans to discontinue 2G GSM services in eight telecoms circles after the closure of the merger between RCom and Sistema Shyam Teleservices (SSTL), providing only 4G data services. RCom […]

Retail Asia07/11/2017
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Fortinet has extended its FortiGuard threat intelligence service to the industrial IoT (IIoT). The new FortiGuard Industrial Security Service (ISS) builds on the threat intelligence services of FortiGuard Labs by providing application control and defensive signatures specific to critical infrastructure and industrial sector organizations. The company is particularly targeting the utility, oil and gas, transportation, and […]

Retail Asia07/11/2017
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Thai operator TrueMove aims to increase its share of the mobile market to 33% next year, as the second-ranked operator takes aim at market leader AIS. The operator plans to invest in data capacity and introduce innovative new services and products to meet its expansion goals, the Bangkok Post reported. TrueMove currently has a market share of around 29% and a […]

Retail Asia07/11/2017
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China Mobile’s Pakistani subsidiary Zong has upgraded its backbone network with 100Gbps technology to accommodate demand from its growing customer base. The operator has expanded its backbone capacity by over 10 times compared to its previous 10Gbps backhaul network. Zong launched 4G services in 2014 and currently operates the country’s largest 4G network with around 10,500 cell sites nationwide. The […]

Retail Asia06/11/2017
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Japan’s NTT Com has launched a new ultra-low latency connectivity service between the financial markets of Tokyo in Japan and Chicago in the United States. The operator said the JPX-Chicago Co-Location Direct service offers the industry’s lowest latency for connectivity between Japan Exchange Group’s (JPX) colocation centre and the Cermak data center used by Chicago’s financial market. […]

Retail Asia06/11/2017
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Tata Consultancy Services has implemented an industry-first transformation project to migrate Malaysia Airlines’ data center to a 100% hybrid cloud model. To better enable a competitive-edge and future readiness for the airline, TCSorchestrated the large and complex project to migrate the airline’s core mission-critical data center infrastructure and myriad applications to a hybrid-cloud model operating 80% on Microsoft Azure […]

Retail Asia04/11/2017
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Japan’s NTT DoCoMo has claimed two new world first with recent 5G trials, including the first successful outdoor trial of 5G technologies for ultra-reliable low latency communications (URLLC). The trial, conducted with Huawei in the 4.5-GHz bands, involved a stationary mobile terminal receiving signals at distances of up to 1km from the base station. DoCoMo said the […]

Retail Asia02/11/2017
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SK Telecom has accelerated its efforts to deploy 5G services earlier than expected with the demonstration of key 5G enabling technologies in a real-world setting. The operator has implemented a 5G relay repeater operating in the 28-GHz and 3.5-GHz 5G-candidate frequency bands at its Bundang office. SK Telecom has deployed a 5G trial network at this office. […]

Retail Asia02/11/2017
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Japan’s NTT DoCoMo has finally completed its exit from Indian joint venture Tata Teleservices, following the acquisition of Tata Teleservices’ consumer mobile business by Bharti Airtel. DoCoMo disclosed it has received the payment awarded by the Delhi High Court in the legal dispute with the Reserve Bank of India over DoCoMo’s planned exit from the venture. The company has received 144.9 billion yen […]

Retail Asia02/11/2017
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Honeywell’s new enterprise-ready tablet, the ScanPal™ EDA70, provides workers with real-time connectivity for business-critical applications and efficient data capture capabilities. The lightweight, rugged tablet is built on the Android 7 (Nougat) platform and is ideal for scan-intensive workflows such as customer engagement and on-demand delivery. The device keeps mobile workers always connected to crucial information […]

Retail Asia01/11/2017
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China Telecom has forged an IoT business partnership agreement with APAC and MEA mobile industry group Bridge Alliance. Under the agreement, China Telecom will be able to provide IoT and M2M services to multinational enterprise customers across Bridge Alliance’s footprint of 34 markets. Bridge Alliance members will likewise be able to take advantage of the […]

Retail Asia01/11/2017
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Ericsson and Hong Kong mobile network operator SmarTone have begun to trial FDD (Frequency Division Duplex) massive MIMO (Multiple Input, Multiple Output) technology as part of the operator’s network evolution plan towards 5G, said the companies in a press event in Hong Kong Monday. The trial, involving FDD massive MIMO on 1800 MHz, represents the first of its […]

Retail Asia01/11/2017
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Australia’s Optus Wholesale has added home wireless broadband to its product suite for MVNOs utilizing the Optus 4G network. The Optus subsidiary is providing the service to give wholesale customers the ability to provide home wireless broadband as an alternative to fixed broadband, particularly in areas where the national broadband network (NBN) has not yet […]

Retail Asia31/10/2017
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The tech giant saw growth in its ‘productivity and business process’ and ‘intelligent cloud’ units. Microsoft on Thursday delivered stronger-than-expected earnings for the past quarter, lifted by gains in cloud computing and other business services. For its first fiscal quarter to September 30, the tech giant said profit was up 16 percent from a year […]

Retail Asia31/10/2017
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An international team of students has won Hong Kong mobile operator SmarTone’s first smart Hackathon with a predictive maintenance solution for utilities. The team of of four university students and programmers from India, Poland, the Philippines and the US developed Prodict during the 24-hour hackathon, which had the theme of smart properties. Prodict analyzes data collected […]

Retail Asia31/10/2017
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South Korea’s LG U+ and Huawei have completed a trial involving ultra-high definition IPTV streaming over 5G fixed wireless access with chipset based 5G millimeter wave customer premise equipment. The world-first trial demonstrated UHD (3840 x 2160) resolution IPTV over 5G, achieving up to a 2Gbps capacity over an end-to-end 5G network operating in the […]

Retail Asia30/10/2017
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Australia’s NBN Co, the state-owned company building the national broadband network, has revealed it will deploy the G.fast copper acceleration technology on its network from 2018. The company will adopt G.fast for the fibre-to-the-building and fibre-to-the-curb components of its networks to provide an upgrade path for these users to ultra-fast speeds. G.fast and the more […]


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