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Retail Asia04/07/2017

A Philippine think tank has urged the government to facilitate the entry of a third player into the nation’s telecoms market, but warned that a series of structural barriers will make this “extremely difficult” to achieve in the near future. The Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) has published a new reporton the competitive landscape of […]

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Retail Asia03/07/2017

Nokia has announced plans to establish a dedicated unit to help major Chinese internet companies expand overseas. The new unit will focus on areas including data centers, cloud computing, IP routing, transport and services, as well as emerging technologies such as AI, machine learning and edge cloud. Nokia is taking the initiative as part of […]

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Retail Asia03/07/2017

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is planning to open an infrastructure region in Hong Kong in 2018, making the city the eighth AWS Region in Asia Pacific. AWS’ launch of the Hong Kong infrastructure region will allow Hong Kong customers to store their data locally, and to build flexible, scalable, secure, and highly available applications. It […]

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Retail Asia03/07/2017

China Mobile, SAIC Motor and Huawei have jointly demonstrated the first 5G-based remote driving technology with a consumer car. The demonstration at Mobile World Congress Shanghai involved using a Huawei-provided 5G solution connecting SAIC Motor’s smart concept car the iGS, with China Mobile providing the connectivity. The remote driving field test involved a driver located […]

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Retail Asia30/06/2017

China Telecom has forged a partnership with Silver Peak to provide its multinational enterprise customers with fully-managed software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) services using Silver Peak’s Unity EdgeConnectSP and Unity Boost SD-WAN products. The collaboration enables China Telecom to deliver managed SD-WAN services, including security services, SaaS optimization, cloud application performance, visibility and control to […]

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Retail Asia30/06/2017

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China Mobile and Huawei have used Mobile World Congress Shanghai to showcase the world’s first 5G core network prototype using service-based architecture (SBA). The prototype is based on the 3GPP’s 5G SBA standard. Under SBA, core network functions are defined as loosely coupled, combinable services that can be flexibly scheduled based on standard interface protocol. […]

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Retail Asia30/06/2017

Chinese operators are on track to launch commercial 5G networks by 2020 and are expected to establish the nation as the world’s largest 5G market by 2025, Mats Granryd, director general of the GSMA, said during a keynote at the Mobile World Congress Shanghai. 5G connections in China will reach 428 million by 2025, accounting […]

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Retail Asia30/06/2017

SK Telecom, Samsung and Nokia have jointly conducted a 5G trial demonstration using the 3.5-GHz frequency band. The operator worked with Samsung to develop a 3.5-GHz 5G end-to-end network comprising a 5G virtualized core, virtualized RAN, distributed baseband and radio unit and test device based on the 3GPP 5G new radio (NR) standards established so […]

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Retail Asia29/06/2017

Cisco has unveiled a new networking paradigm it is calling intent-based networking, with the aim of creating an intuitive system that anticipates actions, stops security threats in their tracks, and continues to evolve and learn. The new solutions are designed to help businesses to unlock new opportunities and solve previously unsolvable challenges in an era […]

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Retail Asia29/06/2017

Singtel has launched an up to S$2.63 billion ($1.89 billion) IPO for its fiber broadband subsidiary NetLink NBN Trust. NetLink NBN Trust is the holding company for NetLink Trust, the company operating the passive infrastructure for the next generation nationwide broadband network (NG-NBN). NetLink NBN Trust has filed a preliminary prospectus with the Monetary Authority […]

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Retail Asia29/06/2017

China Telecom has agreed to extend its partnership with AT&T to cover the development of more advanced network services for multinational companies operating in China. The operators have signed a framework agreement to explore ways to develop new IoT, cloud-based big data, VoLTE roaming and SDN based services. AT&T, China Telecom and Shanghai Information Investments […]

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Retail Asia29/06/2017

IoT-dedicated network operator UnaBiz has secured a license to operate an IoT network in Taiwan from the National Communication Commission (NCC). As the first of its kind to receive an IoT network operator license from the NCC since Taiwan’s announcement of the use of the unlicensed spectrum, UnaBiz is on track to become a nationwide […]

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Retail Asia29/06/2017

The consortium behind the Asia-Africa-Europe 1 (AAE-1) subsea cable system has announced the launch of the new cable, with services commencing from Europe to far east Asia. The 40Tbps, five fiber pair cable system is the first cable to link all major Asian, African, Middle Eastern and European regions, combining both subsea and terrestrial routes. […]

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Retail Asia28/06/2017

The use of public cloud is increasing globally, with many organizations seeing substantial process and financial benefits, according to a new report conducted by Vanson Bourne for Barracuda Networks. On average, organizations have nearly 40% of their infrastructure in the public cloud today, with the expectation to increase this to 70% over the next five […]

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Retail Asia28/06/2017

Japan’s NTT DoCoMo will this week launch a new prepaid SIM service for foreign visitors to Japan providing access to its network for 15 days. The Japan Welcome SIM offering will launch on July 1. It will allow travelers to apply for the service online prior to leaving their home country and pick up their SIMs in […]

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Retail Asia28/06/2017

ZTE and InfoVista said they’ve successfully completed interoperability testing of their combined SD-WAN (Software-Defined Wide Area Network) solution by integrating InfoVista’s Application Performance Orchestration Solution (Ipanema) with ZTE’s Micro Cloud Gateway (MCG) platform. The combined SD-WAN solution provides a single box overlay networking solution for hybrid WAN connectivity, guaranteeing performance of critical business applications while […]

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Retail Asia27/06/2017

Repair work on the broken international cable won’t start until July 3 and will take at least 10 days to complete. International internet connections in Vietnam are likely to remain slow for another three weeks with repair work to a major internet cable which broke off central Vietnam last week expected to take until July […]

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Retail Asia27/06/2017

ZTE announced it has secured around 75% of Thai operator True Corporation’s Beyond-100G backbone WDM network upgrade project. ZTE will provide equipment for a 100G/400G backbone DWDM network to allow the operator to improve its network capacity and grow its 3G, LTE, fixed network and other operations. With the deployment, True aims to develop capabilities including ultra-large […]

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Retail Asia26/06/2017

UAE-based mobile solutions vendor Workz Group has entered into a value-added reseller agreement with UK telecoms software company Simulty Labs covering the provision of commercial and technical support for Workz’s eSIM operating system and remote provisioning server. The agreement will pave the way for distribution of eSIM across the MEA and Southeast Asia, the companies said. […]

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Retail Asia26/06/2017

The South Korean government plans to increase the mandated monthly telecoms subscription fee discount to 25% from 20% as part of a plan to reduce total household expenses by 4.6 trillion won ($4.03 billion) annually. Customers signing up for one or two year subscriptions will be able to choose to apply the discount as either […]

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