Avaroa Cable and Vodafone Cook Islands have signed a multi-year partnership for use of the Manatua Cable.

Filipino licensee NOW Telecom has appointed Unicapital to provide financial advice on a potential public offering.

Thai operators AIS and CAT have signed a five-year sale and lease deal covering 155 towers, bringing a longstanding disagreement to a close.

The government of Vietnam has pushed back its end-2020 deadline for privatising several state-owned firms as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Operator 3 Indonesia and Nokia have announced that they are working together to optimize and expand 3’s LTE network coverage and capacity to meet customer demand via what is referred to as a new Zero Drive Test solution.

Digicel Tonga has successfully implemented a network-wide upgrade to LTE.

Thailand’s True Move will deploy ZTE’s 5G RAN equipment in its nationwide tri-band network.

Filipino operator Smart Communications has launched commercial 5G services in the business districts of the Manila metropolitan area.

dtac has partnered with Nokia to deploy 5G/4G equipment in selected areas of Thailand.

Leaders of the four nations behind the Manatua One Polynesia Cable Project have announced that the cable was accepted last week from turnkey supplier SubCom.

Kacific has signed a five-year agreement with the Government of Tuvalu to provide the Pacific Island nation with high-speed broadband internet connectivity via satellite.

Within the past two weeks, two shareholders in the Philippines’ new market entrant DITO Telecommunity have “withdrawn funds” from the venture, reports The Manila Standard.

Nokia has won an IP/MPLS network deal with Thailand’s True Group.

Myanmar’s government has ordered the country’s operators to add more sites to a mandated blacklist.

Operators in Southeast Asia are laying out their deployment plans for the rest of the year, with the Malaysia’s Celcom claiming that it will be ready to launch commercial 5G services as soon as it holds suitable spectrum.

Filipino fibre broadband provider Converge ICT Solutions has filed for an IPO of up to 35.92 billion pesos ($725 million) on the country’s stock exchange.

Myanmar has completed a nationwide SIM re-registration programme, with millions of SIMs being disconnected by the country’s operators.

PT. Telekomunikasi Indonesia has chosen Vonage to enhance its customer communications and experience.

Filipino newcomer DITO has been granted an additional six months to complete an obligatory technical audit.

Cambodia’s Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (MPTC) has revoked the licence and spectrum of one of the country’s operators.

Telenor Group is selling its entire 34.2% stake in Wave Money to Yoma Strategic Holdings for $76.5 million.

Digicel, a communications and entertainment provider in the Caribbean, Central America and Asia Pacific, has concluded what it calls the last significant milestone in the process to reduce its debt.

Chinese internet giants Tencent and Baidu are strengthening their existing relationship with Nokia to build out their software-defined data centre interconnect (DCI) infrastructure.

stc Bahrain has formed a new partnership with China Telecom Global aimed at digitalising economies in the Middle East and North Africa.

Cambodian mobile market leader Smart Axiata is implementing a network-based authentication solution for service providers from Benefit Vantage.

China Unicom has chosen Nokia to support the build-out of its 5G SA Core network in China.

Thailand’s True Move is implementing direct carrier billing from Docomo Digital, making it easier for its customers to make purchases using their existing mobile accounts.

Asia Direct Cable (ADC) Consortium has selected NEC to build a high-performance submarine cable connecting China (Hong Kong SAR and Guangdong Province), Japan, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.

Mobifone, Vietnamobile, Viettel and Vinaphone have each received a VND90 million ($3876) fine for registering new customers using false information.