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Retail Asia26/09/2017

The companies behind the planned Hawaiki transpacific cable connecting Australia and New Zealand with the US have revealed that installation of the cable is due to commence next month. Hawaiki Submarine Cable and cable supplier TE Connectivity said the 14,000km of subsea cable are in the final stages of being loaded onto two cable laying […]

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Retail Asia22/09/2017

SK Telecom has announced the completion of a successful test run of a self-driving vehicle in public as part of its foray into the autonomous and connected vehicle segment. During the test run, the operator’s self-driving car traveled 26 kilometers in real world traffic conditions at a speed of up to 80 kilometers per hour. […]

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Retail Asia22/09/2017

Australian operator Telstra has unveiled its new ‘Liberate’ service which will allow business customers to use their fixed line number and unified communications features on their mobile devices. According to GlobalData research, for every fixed line in business, there are 2.4 mobile lines. In addition, employees are also relying on personal devices and consumer technology […]

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Retail Asia22/09/2017

BT and the New South Wales government in Australia have announced the opening of a new global cyber security research and development hub in Sydney. The hub is an expansion of BT’s existing security operations center (SOC) in the city and will create up to 172 new highly skilled jobs over five years. The hub […]

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Retail Asia20/09/2017

Alibaba Cloud has launched a new big data processing service named MaxCompute in Hong Kong to help meet rising demand for scalable computing services. The new platform will allow enterprise customers to store and process up to a petabyte of structured and unstructured data, with a single MaxCompute cluster scalable up to 10,000 servers. The platform […]

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Retail Asia20/09/2017

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Hitachi has teamed up with Thailand’s Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) Office to apply digital technologies including IoT to establish an innovative environment to promote development of the corridor. Under the agreement, the EEC Office and Hitachi will be working collectively using advanced digital technologies, including IoT related technologies, within the Eastern Economic Corridor region to […]

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Retail Asia20/09/2017

Optus Business has launched its first software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) offering, powered by Riverbed Technology. The new offering, dubbed Optus Fusion SD-WAN, provides organizations with improved network management capabilities by monitoring the health of every network path reinforced with application awareness capabilities. It helps IT managers understand how their network is performing and where […]

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Retail Asia20/09/2017

The telco network is starting to provide opportunities for much smaller companies and even startups are now winning business against the established giants Ericsson, Huawei and Nokia, according to ABI Research. Findings of ABI Research’s Telco Cloud Hot Tech Innovators report show 15 companies that are creating new types of innovation and bringing fresh ideas to […]

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Retail Asia20/09/2017

Nokia has announced new online portal that will enable the development of compelling digital applications using Nokia AirGile cloud-native core products. The Nokia Developer Portal will provide secure access to products using APIs, enabling third-party developers to build and test the interoperability of solutions with Nokia AirGile cloud-native core products to accelerate introduction in a commercial network. The Developer […]

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Retail Asia20/09/2017

ZTE announced it has become the first vendor to complete high-layer tests of experimental network equipment prototypes as part of phase II of China’s national 5G technical network architecture tests. The company was able to verify functions including base functions of split central unit/distributed unit architecture, dynamic resource deployment and dual-connectivity mobility. The testing phase […]

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Retail Asia20/09/2017

Huawei Technologies is planning to invest $1 billion over the next three years on developing solutions and platforms to help telecoms operators speed up their digital transformation and monetize digital services, said Ryan Ding, president of the company’s carrier group. “Digital transformation is now a common goal, but digital services are different in many ways. […]

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Retail Asia18/09/2017

China Telecom Global has launched a new SD-WAN service portfolio in partnership with software-based networking and security company Versa Networks. The new service offering enables direct and secure access to public cloud services such as Microsoft Azure and Amazon via backbone networks, and will be accessible via mobile devices. It also uses Versa’s carrier-grade NFV […]

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Retail Asia18/09/2017

Singtel has launched what it says are Singapore’s first mobile plans with unlimited data, talktime and SMS, following a nationwide network upgrade to 500Mbps on compatible handsets. The operator’s new Singtel Combo 3, 6 and 12 mobile plans will be upgraded with unlimited talktime and SMS, will come with an optional add-on providing unlimited local […]

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Retail Asia18/09/2017

Inmarsat has announced a new managed service for ships designed to detect vulnerabilities, respond to threats and protect ships from widespread cyberattack. The new Fleet Secure service will be commercially launched as a standard option on Inmarsat’s award-winning Fleet Xpress service. Fleet Secure is a Unified Threat Management (UTM) and monitoring service that detects external […]

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Retail Asia18/09/2017

Indian conglomerate Tata Group is reportedly considering winding down its struggling mobile operation Tata Teleservices after failing to find a potential buyer. Cciting unnamed sources, Tata Group chairman N Chandrasekaran is evaluating suspending its telecoms operations to tackle the operator’s mounting debt. If the operations are wound down, Tata Group may need to take financial […]

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Retail Asia15/09/2017

Globe Telecom in the Philippines has deployed the Cloudera platform to enhance customer experience and deliver real-time targeted marketing campaigns and offers to its 60 million customers. Globe Telecom is using machine learning with Cloudera to enrich customer experiences across channels and deliver targeted and optimized products and services, while maintaining compliance with the latest industry data regulations. The operator’s […]

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Retail Asia15/09/2017

Smart Transfer has introduced a person-to-person mobile payment platform that supports international social payments across multiple currencies at no charge to users. The Smart Transfer app allows international money transactions to be made to any bank account, phone number, email address, or social media platform. The Smart Transfer app allows users to send money to […]

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Retail Asia15/09/2017

Vietnam’s fourth largest mobile operator Vietnamobile has announced it has achieved 90% population coverage with its 3G network following a year of heavy infrastructure investments. The company’s 3G network now covers all 63 cities and provinces in the country. When the operator first announced plans to achieve nationwide 3G coverage a year ago, its 3G network only […]

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Retail Asia14/09/2017

South Korean operators’ plans to take an early lead in the deployment of 5G is expected to help them overcome stagnating traditional telecoms service revenues, research from GlobalData indicates. The market’s 5G subscriber base is expected to outnumber the 3G base by 2020, two years after the planned world’s first commercial 5G deployment during next year’s Pyeongchang […]

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Retail Asia14/09/2017

Singtel has revealed plans to progressively shut down its copper-based ADSL networks as part of a push to accelerate fiber based service adoption to business and residential customers. The operator will shut down copper-based ADSL that supports broadband, TV, digital voice and private network services in stages during a process expected to be completed by […]

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