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Retail Asia23/04/2018

‘Motorcycle Girl’, a biopic on the achievements of Zenith Irfan, the first female biker to take a solo journey to Pakistan’s northern areas, was premiered in Karachi. Showcasing the feat of a young girl challenging stereotypes, the movie fits perfectly with Telenor’s brand philosophy of empowering Pakistanis so that they become the better version of […]

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Retail Asia23/04/2018

Singaporean telecoms operator StarHub has appointed Peter Kaliaropoulos (pictured) as its next chief executive officer. In a statement, StarHub said Kaliaropoulos will take over as Group CEO on July 9. He replaces Tan Tong Hai, who will step down from his roles as CEO and executive director from May 1. Kaliaropoulos, who was most recently CEO of Zain […]

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Retail Asia23/04/2018

New business models and advances in cloud computing capabilities are driving adoption and expansion of the Asia-Pacific cloud video collaboration market, according to Frost & Sullivan. Cloud video conferencing services grew a strong 43.1% in 2017, and the total video collaboration market is on track to grow at a CAGR of 11.3% over the next […]

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Retail Asia23/04/2018

Hong Kong’s HKBN has reported a strong 423.4% increase in net profit for the six months ending in February to HK$241 million ($30.7 million), partly as a result of strong residential and enterprise growth. Adjusted for amortisation and non-recurring finance costs, profit grew 70% year-on-year to HK$295.4 million, the operator said. Revenue for the six month […]

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Retail Asia23/04/2018

Taiwan’s Chunghwa Telecom could be required to the change frequencies it is using for its ST-2 satellite in order to accommodate the use of 5G on the 3.4-GHz to 3.6-GHz frequency range. Taiwanese regulator NCC plans to conduct experiments to see if the operator’s satellite system can coexist with 5G servicesv. If it is found that there […]

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Retail Asia23/04/2018

Reliance Communications has been hit with a fresh roadblock to its attempt to sell its tower and fiber assets to Reliance Jio Infocomm. India’s National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) has withdrawn aninterim order that had cleared RCom to proceed with the asset sale. RCom has instead been instructed to wait until the outcome of an […]

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Retail Asia20/04/2018

Japan’s NTT Docomo has completed a trial involving the use of 5G technology to conduct remote medical examinations. The trial in the sparsely populated Wakayama Prefecture used base station equipment provided by NEC. It was conducted in collaboration with the Wakayama Prefectural Government and Wakayama Medical University and hosted by Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs […]

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Retail Asia20/04/2018

Telin Singapore has teamed up with the Singapore Internet Exchange (SGIX) to enhance internet connectivity for business customers. Under the agreement, SGIX has set up a PoP within the Telin-3 data center to provide low latency internet peering services to customers using the data center. Telin Singapore, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Indonesia’s PT Telkom, operates […]

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Retail Asia20/04/2018

Eric Xu, rotating chairman of Huawei, has downplayed the expectations on 5G, warning that consumers will not likely see a fundamental difference between 5G and 4G. “Over the last couple years the entire industry, especially governments around the world, regards 5G too high, as if it’s a digital infrastructure for everything, Xu told attendees at […]

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Retail Asia19/04/2018

Thai telecoms regulator NBTC has instructed mobile operator True Move H to assess the impact of its recent personal data leak and offer compensation to any affected customers. The regulator also plans to conduct a formal investigation into the incident and consider imposing punishments, and issue a letter demanding that mobile operators take appropriate steps to prevent […]

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Retail Asia19/04/2018

The Huawei Southern Pacific ISP Summit 2018 saw over 150 analysts and key industry players converge to discuss how the ISP industry can speed up digital transformation and promote a single digital economy in ASEAN. Randy Roberts, Research Director at IDC, shared in his keynote speech, entitled “Regional ASEAN ICT Development – Towards a Single Unified Digital […]

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Retail Asia19/04/2018

Malaysia’s Digi Telecommunications has teamed up with cloud management business solutions provider Sage to add a number of new services to the operator’s newly-launched Digi Business Hub. Under the agreement, Sage will offer solutions including its Sage Accounting, Sage UBS accounting and billing software and Sage Easy Pay payment software at a 20% discount to Digi customers. The Digi […]

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Retail Asia19/04/2018

US-based cloud networking provider GTT Communications has launched a new PoP in Osaka Japan as part of an expansion of its global Tier 1 network. The company has also opened four new PoPs in the US – in Charlotte, Kansas City, St. Louis and Reno – and one in Calgary in Canada. GTT’s network now includes more […]

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Retail Asia19/04/2018

Huawei appears to have largely given up on the US market. The company has reportedly laid off a chunk of its top US officials including William Plummer—actions that preceded a vote by the FCC yesterday to withhold federal money from equipment suppliers “that raise national security concerns,” according to the agency. Huawei last week laid […]

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Retail Asia18/04/2018

The 4Q17 Telecom Infrastructure Services Benchmark report by Technology Business Research (TBR) revealed that the spending shift by operators towards offerings from IT services‐ and software‐centric companies may spell bad news for equipment vendors. The spend coincides with an industry that itself is following the global digital transformation movement. TBR Telecom senior analyst Chris Antlitz […]

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Retail Asia18/04/2018

In the digital era, competitive advantage is not just a matter of being able to connect to the world. It is about creating a scalable business-friendly environment that connects enterprises to anywhere in the world. Responding to this opportunity, Philippine operator PLDT confirmed it has signed on with software-defined network vendor Zenlayer to offer software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) […]

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Retail Asia17/04/2018

Huawei said it has become the first vendor to pass China’s 5G Non-Standalone (NSA) core network test, which constitutes an important part of the country’s 5G R&D trials for operators that hope to deploy 5G commercial networks early and quickly. The test, which covers key core network technologies and service processes, was part of the […]

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Retail Asia17/04/2018

Thailand’s True Corp has fixed a data leak involving the exposure of identity records on up to around 45,000 of its customers. Security researcher Niall Merrigan discovered personal data on customers of True Corp’s e-commerce subsidiary iTrueMart (now WeMall) stored in a public-facing Amazon S3 bucket in March. The 32GB data cache included 45,736 files, […]

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Retail Asia17/04/2018

New Zealand’s Commerce Commission has filed 27 charges against Vodafone New Zealand, accusing the operator of engaging in false and misleading conduct with its FibreX hybrid fibre coaxial (HFC) service. The charges filed in the Auckland District Court allege that Vodafone NZ has been misleading customers since October 2016 by using the name FibreX in […]

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Retail Asia17/04/2018

The race for LTE dominance in Malaysia is still in its infancy as operators scramble to deliver consistent quality of service nationwide. Statista data points to smartphone penetration in Malaysia of 62.8% in 2017 with a forecast of 68.46% by 2022. Adoption is fueled by nationwide mobile connectivity with usage in areas such as mobile shopping, social […]

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