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Retail Asia17/11/2016

Hutchison Telecommunications Hong Kong Holding’s mobile division 3 Hong Kong is offering a year’s free subscription to its premium subscription TV and VOD service to all new and existing 4G users. The mobile version of the myTV SUPER and TVB Premium subscription VOD service will be made available free of charge. A 12-month subscription has […]

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Retail Asia11/11/2016

Thai mobile service provider TrueMove has deployed Procera’s ScoreCard technology to monitor the quality of experience (QoE) its network is delivering to subscribers across 2G, 3G, and 4G LTE. ScoreCard is being used for raw QoE KPI intelligence and the visualization of network performance, thereby helping to guide capex investments and better service planning. TrueMove’s […]

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Retail Asia11/11/2016

Thailand’s Dtac has become the market’s first mobile operator to implement an SDN-ready IP/optical network using equipment from Nokia. Dtac is implementing the technology to replace its existing IP core routing and DWDM infrastructure, in order to achieve the capacity to serve Thailand’s fast-growing mobile subscriber base. The deployment also includes Nokia’s security gateway for […]

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Retail Asia01/11/2016

Globe Telecom in the Philippines is providing a major enhancement to its Cartoon Network Watch and Play app, allowing customers to livestream Cartoon Network and on-demand content via a new authenticated service. Globe customers will soon be able to log in to the free app using their username and password to unlock an array of […]

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Retail Asia24/08/2016

M1 and Nokia have teamed up to roll out the first nationwide commercial narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) network in Singapore by 2017. When completed, the deployment – Nokia’s first large-scale deployment with an operator partner in Asia – is expected to be among the world’s first commercial NB-IoT deployments. NB-IoT networks and devices are […]

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Retail Asia03/08/2016

Singtel and Ericsson have completed the first live demonstration of 5G prototype technology, achieving a peak throughput of 27.5Gbps. The demonstration used Ericsson’s 5G radio prototypes to showcase the capabilities offered by the new networking technology, which also included demonstrating a latency as low as 2ms. At the demonstration, Singtel and Ericsson also showcased the […]

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Retail Asia28/06/2016

Australia’s largest privately-ˇowned cold storage operator, Oxford Cold Storage is seeking an operational and financial partner to expand its world-ˇclass cold storage services across Asia. In a global first, Oxford is piloting a system of Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) in a third party temperature controlled environment to ensure accuracy, improve safety standards and allow for 24-ˇhour operation, delivering […]

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Retail Asia22/06/2016

Australia’s Telstra has revealed plans to roll out 135 small cell 4G base stations in remote communities across the nation as part of the government’s Mobile Black Spot program. The operator is also making the investment as part its efforts to expand its 4G footprint to 99% of the Australian population by June next year. […]

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Retail Asia10/06/2016

Thailand’s Dtac has announced a major prepaid brand revamp and introduced new promotional tariff plans as part of efforts to attract at least 1 million digital consumers to its prepaid subscriber base. As part of the revamp, Dtac will replace its Happy prepaid brand as it moves to bring all its prepaid brands under the […]

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Retail Asia08/06/2016

A number of international telecoms operators have reportedly expressed an interest in participating in the privatization of Vietnamese state-owned operator Mobifone. Companies including Norway’s Telenor, Sweden’s Comviq and Australia’s Telstra have shown interest in acquiring stakes in the company. Mobifone has an estimated brand value of $539 million. Plans for the privatization of the company […]

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Retail Asia08/06/2016

Hong Kong operator SmarTone has launched ST Protect, an anti-cyberattack software with on-device AI and a Machine Learning behavioral engine designed to protect smartphones from known and even unknown threats. Cyberattacks have rocketed in recent years. In Hong Kong, there was an 86% increase in the number of security issues related to mobile devices in […]

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Retail Asia26/05/2016

Australian operator Telstra has formed a partnership with – and made an investment in – data center and cloud security company vArmour. Under the agreement, investment arm Telstra Ventures has participated in vArmour’s recent $41 million Series D funding round. Telstra will also add vArmour’s security offerings to its portfolio of enterprise services. In the […]

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Retail Asia26/05/2016

Malaysia-based Axiata Group has reported a 37% slump in net profit for the first quarter ending in March, due in part to higher capex, financing and depreciation costs. Net profit fell to 368 million ringgit ($90.1 million) despite a 5.4% year-on-year increase in revenue to 5 billion ringgit. Axiata’s domestic subsidiary Celcom Axiata had what […]

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Retail Asia25/05/2016

The Philippines’ Globe Telecom has become the first operator in the nation to pilot using TV white space frequency for mobile broadband. The operator is collaborating with the ICT office of the Department of Science and Technology to trial use of the spectrum for broadband service delivery in multiple areas of the Philippines. Globe senior […]

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Retail Asia03/05/2016

Australia’s largest operator Telstra has committed A$50 million ($38.3 million) towards improving its network resiliency following a spate of outages, but coverage of its announcement was tainted by another minor outage. At an investor presentation in Melbourne, Telstra COO Kate McKenzie revealed that the operator has completed a review into the recent mobile network disruptions. […]

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Retail Asia04/04/2016

One of Australia’s most senior telecommunications executives, Kevin Russell, will join Telstra this month as Group Executive Telstra Retail. In this new role, he will lead the company’s consumer, business, stores and product functions. Russell replaces Karsten Wildberger, who resigned last December to return to Europe. Wildberger left Telstra on March 31, and short term […]

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Retail Asia23/03/2016

Communication and Informatics (Kominfo) Ministry is reported to have been preparing a regulation on foreign over the top (OTT) content provider companies operating in Indonesia. The regulation is expected to be issued at the end of March 2016. One of the articles in the regulation will oblige foreign OTT companies to form establish a legal […]

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Retail Asia17/12/2015

PT XL Axiata, the most indebted of Indonesia’s listed wireless carriers, is considering raising as much as US$500mil next year, people with knowledge of the matter said. The company, a unit of Malaysia’s Axiata Group Bhd., is weighing several fundraising options including selling stock to existing investors through a rights offering, according to the people. […]

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Retail Asia23/08/2015

Malaysia’s Axiata says profits rose sharply in the second quarter, thanks to contributions from various overseas interests, and claims to have seen improvements in the markets of Malaysia and Indonesia, where it has been struggling amid fierce competition. Through its various subsidiaries and affiliates, Axiata Group Berhad serves about 260 million mobile subscribers in Asia, […]

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