The Philippines’ market leader Globe Telecom is implementing a new solution from Nastech to transform its field operations...

Vietnamese service provider Viettel is reportedly looking to increase its overseas footprint by 2015...

Thailand’s state-owned operator TOT is close to securing financial backing from two major Japanese firms...

A low-cost cellular service is enabling communities in rural Papua, Indonesia, to make local calls and send SMS messages for the first time...

Myanmar’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology has signed a funding agreement with two major Japanese firms...

The European Commission has declared its intention to investigate imports of network equipment from China, while clarifying that any investigation will not go ahead immediately to “allow for negotiations towards an amicable solution with the Chinese authorities”...

A major pan-Asian operator is integrating a Customer Experience Management (CEM) solution from specialists Clarity...

Russian operator VimpelCom has pulled out of Cambodia, selling its entire operation in the southeast Asian country to its local partner for an as-yet-unrevealed amount...

The investment strategies of Indian operators over the next two years differ significantly from their counterparts in China, Indonesia and the Philippines...

The European Union (EU) trade commissioner is calling on EU member states to provide enough support for an investigation into claims that Chinese vendors Huawei and ZTE are receiving illegal state subsidies, enabling them to undercut their European rivals...

One of the leading providers in the Philippines has implemented a comprehensive social hub to reduce customer service costs...

Two major operators have formed a consortium in order to bid for a mobile licence in Myanmar...

Privately-run MVNOs have been approved by China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology...

The leading telecommunications provider in Indonesia has entered into an agreement to build a content delivery network. 

The leading telecom provider in the Philippines has landed a 400-kilometre submarine fibre optic cable in the western island province of Palawan...

With a population of 67 million, Thailand has a mobile uptake rate of more than 120%, and on average its internet users are among the world’s youngest – almost half are between ages 15 and 24, and three-quarters are under 35...

This year will likely see 4G spectrum licensed in China, with the country’s minister of industry and information technology Miao Wei stating that there had been significant “breakthroughs in R&D of 4G technologies”...

Construction is complete on a major cable system linking several countries in the Asia-Pacific region...

This month is likely to see China become the largest market in the world for smart devices, including iOS and Android smartphones as well as tablet computers...

The telecommunications industry is no longer playing as great a role in Vietnam’s economic growth...

Thailand's third largest mobile operator by market share has announced it will bypass 3G and launch an LTE network by April 2013 in Bangkok...

One of the largest telecom providers in the Philippines has modernised its wireline infrastructure in key central and southern regions of the country...

One of the leading operators in Malaysia is bringing 3G services to remote areas across the country...

Myanmar’s national mobile licences have roused the interest of four international operators after the country’s government made them available to foreign firms in a bid to encourage investment from overseas...

Relations between China and the European Commission have hit a new stumbling block, with officials in the Asian nation reacting negatively to an offer made by the European trade commissioner aimed at safeguarding European interests...

The CEO of China Mobile Li Yue has confirmed that the operator will use the FDD LTE strand in addition to the TDD strand...

After a period of uncertainty, the Indonesian telecom sector has settled into a healthy development phase...

After just three days on sale in China, the iPhone 5 racked up sales of over 2 million, according to official sales figures published by Apple...

Thousands of people in the Philippines hit by Typhoon Pablo will be able to contact relatives and aid agencies will be able to carry out life-saving emergency work with the deployment of the Vodafone Foundation’s Instant Network today. Communications lines were cut when Typhoon Pablo hit the province on December 4, flattening buildings and damaging cell sites and telecoms transmission facilities...

The first TD-SCDMA to use the Windows Phone operating system in China has been launched by Nokia and China Mobile...

Eight firms have been awarded 4G spectrum to offer LTE services in Malaysia by the country’s regulator, the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission...

Apple is more than doubling the number of countries in which it sells the iPhone 5, with the goal of adding “more than 50” markets to the current total of 47 by the end of this year...

The largest mobile operator in Indonesia is introducing proactive monitoring to its network in order to predict, prevent, and prioritise network issues for its 121 million customers...