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Retail Asia28/06/2021

Cisco and Rakuten Mobile, Inc. today announced a major milestone for Rakuten Mobile’s network infrastructure in support of efforts to build a better, more inclusive internet for the future. Rakuten Mobile operates the world first’s fully cloud-native mobile network. It launched 4G service in Japan in April 2020, and launched 5G non-standalone (NSA) services in […]

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Retail Asia08/12/2020

The Monetary Authority of Singapore and the Smart Nation and Digital Government Group launched the Singapore Financial Data Exchange. This initiative will enable Singaporeans to consolidate their financial information for more effective financial planning. The Smart Nation and Digital Government Group (SGFinDex) is the world’s first public digital infrastructure to use a national digital identity and centrally […]

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Retail Asia23/05/2019

The deal, inked by Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Tuan Anh and a representative of Siemens AG, is part of the roadmap towards realizing the joint statement issued by the Ministry of Industry and Trade and the German Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy last month. Smart infrastructure development for Vietnam is made based […]

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Retail Asia23/04/2019

Gartner forecasts worldwide public cloud services market will grow 17.5% in 2019 to reach a total of $214.3 billion, up from $182.4 billion in 2018. Cloud system infrastructure services, or infrastructure as a service (IaaS) is forecast to grow 27.5% in 2019 and reach $38.9 billion, up from $30.5 billion in 2018 (see Table 1). […]

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Retail Asia05/03/2019

Juniper Networks has arranged to acquire Mist Systems, a provider of cloud-managed wireless network solutions powered by artificial intelligence, for $405 million. Juniper Networks plans to use the acquisition to fill wireless gaps in its enterprise networking portfolio through the addition of Mist’s WLAN platform. Mist’s AI-driven wireless platform is designed to enhance the reliability of […]

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Retail Asia13/02/2019

The Airports Corporation of Vietnam (ACV) desires to be the main investor in the Long Thanh International Airport. ACV, which operates 21 airports in the country, has proposed that it contributes more than a quarter of the $5.4 billion needed to build the new Long Thanh International Airport. Lai Xuan Thanh, chairman of ACV, said that […]

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Retail Asia24/01/2019

Malaysia’s real gross domestic product (GDP) growth is likely to return to the 4.6-5% trend range in 2020 as economic drag diminishes, said UBS Investment Bank economist Edward Teather. He said the impact of the trade war and the government’s institutional reforms should go from drags on growth to net positive contributions to the country’s […]

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Retail Asia04/01/2019

Contractors should look to neighbouring Singapore and Sarawak for jobs, as a slowdown in award of contracts is expected in 2019, according to Hong Leong Investment Bank (HLIB). The research house said in a note that contract flows are expected to slowdown on the back of slight year-on-year (y-o-y) decline of 0.4% in development expenditure […]

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Retail Asia28/12/2018

Vietnam’s bullet train will cut travel time between Hanoi and Saigon to five hours from the current 24. The railway project management board has submitted a pre-feasibility study to the Ministry of Transport, which quotes transport consultants’ estimate that if the train travels at 320 km/h, its running time would be from 5 hours 17 […]

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Retail Asia27/12/2018

Vietnam is set to complete four infrastructure projects next year, some of them after long delays lasting several years. Hanoi’s first metro line The 13-kilometer Cat Linh – Ha Dong metro line is expected to open commercial operations before the Tet Lunar New Year holiday starting February 2, 2019. All 13 trains on the route are being […]

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Retail Asia21/12/2018

LG U+ CEO and Vice Chairman Ha Hyun-hwoi has made it clear that the carrier does not think there are any security threats related to its use of Huawei equipment in its 5G infrastructure. Ha made the statement during a year-end press briefing on Wednesday in Yongsan District, central Seoul, rebuffing claims by some lawmakers […]

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Retail Asia21/11/2018

Work on Vietnam’s biggest airport would start in 2020 and it will become operational in 2025, the Airports Corporation of Vietnam (ACV) says. ACV, which manages and operates civil airports in the country, also says that it will complete business appraisals and feasibility reports for submission to the National Assembly for approval in October 2019. […]

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Retail Asia12/11/2018

KT has chosen Samsung Electronics, Ericsson and Nokia as suppliers of 5G network equipment. As expected, Huawei was excluded from the list. “In choosing 5G equipment providers, the company considered a wide range of factors: the level of technology, investment costs and management stability based on the compatibility with the existing LTE network,” KT said […]

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Retail Asia01/10/2018

Vietnam’s plans for building and expanding airports and seaports have attracted the interest of companies in the U.S. and Japan. Joel Szabat, deputy assistant secretary in the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Office of Aviation and International Affairs, said his country wants to strengthen ties with Vietnam in the transport infrastructure area, especially airports and seaports. […]

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Retail Asia29/05/2018

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo must have felt relieved and proud when the presidential airplane touched down at Kertajati International Airport in Majalengka, West Java, to inaugurate its service last week. The president can now showcase the airport as a successful and punctual public-private partnership (PPP) for infrastructure development. Initiated by the provincial government of West Java in 2009, the $800 million airport project was initially marred […]

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Retail Asia09/08/2017

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Thailand’s strategically important geographic location gives it ample advantage to become a primary regional economic hub, not only in trade, investment and tourism, but also in communication and transportation networks that connect to other regions around the world. And the government has in recent years made investment in domestic infrastructure its top priority. The Thailand […]

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Retail Asia05/04/2017

By 2020, enterprise spending on cloud, hosted and traditional infrastructure services will be more or less on par, Gartner has predicted. The research firm said the growth of cloud and industrialized services and the decline of traditional data center outsourcing (DCO) indicate a massive shift toward hybrid infrastructure services. “As the demand for agility and […]

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Retail Asia17/01/2017

Singapore’s M1 and StarHub are considering expanding their mobile infrastructure sharing arrangements to gain a greater competitive edge against new market entrant TPG Telecom. The companies announced they have signed a memorandum of understanding covering the evaluation of potential further collaboration in network infrastructure sharing. M1 and StarHub have been sharing infrastructure including combined antenna systems, […]

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Retail Asia10/01/2017

Aimed at supporting the growth of export and import demands of customers especially SMB’s in the Northern region, logistic service provider-DHL Express India, opened its new modern service facility in Chandigarh. The new facility will serve as a pick-up, delivery, sorting center etc., with a shipment handling capacity of over 100,000 shipments a year and […]

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Retail Asia15/11/2016

Germany, which has been aggressively pushing for closer economic ties with Iran following the lifting of international sanctions against the latter, wants to play a pivotal role in the modernizing and upgrading of Iran’s dilapidated infrastructure and transport system. Germany signed six memoranda of understanding (MoUs) aimed at boosting transport cooperation following a late October […]

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