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Retail Asia21/08/2017

New Zealand’s Spark has reported a 13% increase in net profit for the financial year ended in June as a result of one-off gains and improved mobile performance. Net profit grew to NZ$418 million ($305.7 million), with revenue increasing 3.3% to NZ$3.61 billion. Mobile revenue grew 5.6% due to a 4.1% increase in high margin […]

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Retail Asia21/08/2017

Sydney Trains has contracted Ciena to help upgrade its network to a packet optical platform to improve public services across its transportation system with a faster, low latency and reliable data network. The deployment will support critical passenger safety measures that ensure trains in the Australian city operate at safe distances. By investing in both […]

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Retail Asia18/08/2017

Vietnam’s Vinaphone has become the fourth and last of the nation’s four major mobile operators to launch carrier billing over Google Play using the Fortumo payments platform. The operator’s 20 million subscribers will be able to use the Fortumo platform to pay for apps and in-app content using their airtime balance. With the launch, 95% […]

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Retail Asia18/08/2017

Shares in Australia’s Telstra slumped 10.6% to a five-year low of A$3.87 yesterday after the company warned it expects to take an A$3 billion ($2.36 billion) hit to its ebtida as a result of the rollout of the National Broadband Network (NBN). Telstra cut its planned dividend for the current financial year by 29% to […]

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Retail Asia18/08/2017

NEC Corporation of Malaysia and Netcracker have teamed up with red Hat, Juniper Networks and Dell EMC to launch a multi-vendor 5G-ready virtualization platform for operators and enterprises in Malaysia. The companies will launch a full SD/NFV solution capable of using IT virtualization technologies to virtualize entire classes of network node functions into building blocks […]

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Retail Asia18/08/2017

The Office of the Government CIO (OGCIO) yesterday announced extending the number of government venues to provide free public Wi-Fi services through the Wi-Fi.HK Public-Private Collaboration (PPC) project. Initial venues equipped with free Wi-Fi include the Hong Kong Cultural Centre, Queen Elizabeth Stadium, Dr Sun Yat-sen Museum, Shatin Town Hall, Man Kam To Control Point, […]

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Retail Asia17/08/2017

Chinese state-owned operator China Unicom will raise around 78 billion yuan ($11.65 billion) through investments from private companies including Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent. The operator announced it has secured approval from the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) for its plan to open up to private investment under the government’s mixed ownership reform pilot program. The company […]

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Retail Asia17/08/2017

Vietnamese state-owned operator MobiFone has been instructed to complete a privatization and restructuring process known as equitization in 2018, while former parent VNPT has been instructed to equitize in 2019. The Ministry of Information and Communications plans to assess and approve the restructuring plans of MobiFone as well as Vietnam Television Corporation and VNPost by […]

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Retail Asia17/08/2017

Google has added voice search functionality for eight additional Indian languages including Bengali, Malayalam and Tamil. At the moment, the voice search feature is available in English and Hindi in India. The other languages being added are Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi, Telugu and Urdu. “Speakers of these languages will be able to use their voice to […]

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Retail Asia14/08/2017

SK Telecom has developed and trialed a new 5G repeater as part of its preparations towards launching a commercial 5G network. The repeater has been applied to the operator’s 5G trial network near Gangnam Station in Seoul to provide denser coverage. It has been built with SK Telecom’s independently developed 5G relay technology to solve […]

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Retail Asia14/08/2017

Singtel has reported a 6% decline in net profit for the June quarter as a result of lower contributions from the company’s minority-owned regional associates and workforce restructuring charges at wholly-owned Australian subsidiary Optus. Profit for Singtel’s fiscal first quarter fell 6% to S$892 million ($654 million), despite an 8% increase in operating revenue to […]

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Retail Asia14/08/2017

China Unicom has announced it expects to report a 68.9% increase in profit for the first six months of the year, partly as a result of improved cost efficiencies. The company estimates it earned a profit of 2.4 billion yuan ($359.9 million) for the six month period, despite a 1.5% decrease in overall revenue to 138.2 billion. […]

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Retail Asia11/08/2017

Singtel is deploying Massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) technology commercially on its LTE-Advanced mobile network to improve the mobile data experience during special events. A precursor to 5G technology, Massive MIMO is an advanced solution used to boost network capacity in highly dense environments. The company plans to use the technology to improve mobile data speeds […]

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Retail Asia11/08/2017

Smart based in Belize has implemented FTS’ real-time billing and charging solution to support its expansion into 4G LTE as it offers innovative services to its customers. Supporting Smart’s LTE, 3G and 2G networks on a single platform, FTS’ Leap Billing solution includes convergent charging, billing, invoicing, customer management and partner management. In addition, FTS has provided Smart with a mobile solution, including prepaid […]

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Retail Asia10/08/2017

Hong Kong has been recognized in IDC’s third annual Smart City Asia Pacific Awards, scoring awards in two of the 14 categories. Hong Kong won in the transportation category for its Next Generation Intelligent Transport System, and in the smart building category for its Zero Carbon Building project. China meanwhile won in the smart meter category […]

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Retail Asia10/08/2017

Wireless VR headsets will further strain telecoms networks, with data consumption from the devices set to grow by over 650% over the next four years to over 21,000 petabytes by 2021, Juniper Research predicts. When combined with traffic generated by VR headsets connected to PCs and consoles, this consumption will reach over 28,000 petaytes, the […]

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Retail Asia10/08/2017

Nokia has announced plans to implement early 5G specifications, enhancing its ‘5G First’ portfolio with the 3GPP 5G Phase I protocol, to meet growing interest for 5G mobility applications emerging from operators, notably in markets like US, China, Japan and South Korea. In a statement, Nokia said the vendor will push for accelerated 3GPP industry standardization while […]

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Retail Asia09/08/2017

3 Hong Kong has completed the first phase of a project to enhance its 4G network capacity at 18-high traffic MTR stations. The company has upgraded its equipment at the concourses of the Tsim Sha Tsui, Prince Edward, North Point, Quarry Bay, Yau Tong, Jordan, Mong Kok and Yau Ma Tei stations. The whole project is expected to […]

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Retail Asia09/08/2017

Singapore’s M1 has announced the launch of Southeast Asia’s first commercial nationwide narrowband IoT network. M1 and its partners are using the network to make available IoT solutions in fields including smart energy management for buildings, environmental monitoring, asset tracking and fleet management. The operator is today hosting industry partners and businesse to showcase the possibilities of IoT […]

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Retail Asia08/08/2017

Japan’s SoftBank is developing a new Twin Access mobile network service for enterprises using equipment from NEC. The Twin Access service provides two simultaneous mobile network connections to maintain a state of constant, active connectivity between NEC line terminal equipment and devices employing virtualization technology. It uses the packet copy capsuled (PCC) technology jointly developed […]

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