Designed to benefit local business and personal consumers by avoiding existing maritime links, the first terrestrial cable to directly connect China and India is now in service. Joint constructors are Reliance Globalcom and China Telecom...

Orascom, the company which bought into North Korea's new 3G market, has reported that customers for Orascom 3G more than doubled in 2Q09. The company has a 75% share in Koryolink, the sole cellular network open to individual customers...

Hunan's provincial government has announced that its local Unicom operation has launched 3G services. To encourage use, a 50% discount is available for all existing or potential Hunan Unicom subscribers...

Reports from China Knowledge and SinoCast Daily Business both indicate that 3G deployment in China is continuing faster than predicted by the three licencee companies. China Telecom appears to be enjoying a clear advantage over China Mobile and China Unicom...

Indonesia is set for huge growth in 3G service uptake over the next five years, and operators are taking creative steps to build out that subscriber base, according to the latest forecast data and analysis from Pyramid Research, the telecom research arm of the Light Reading Communications Network...

International Launch Services (ILS), which provides mission and launch services to the commercial satellite industry, has carried the AsiaSat 5 satellite into orbit on its ILS Proton on behalf of Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited (AsiaSat) of Hong Kong...

The Asia-Pacific region will see huge numbers of cellular towers built over the next five years, with demand driven by the massive, rapid increase in mobile subscribers in China and India. By 2014, according to Cellular Base Station and Site Leasing Markets, a new study from ABI Research, the area will contain 39% of the world’s cell towers, in a Total Addressable Market worth nearly US$125 billion...

Xiamen Hospital in China’s Fujian Province is using a wireless LAN system from Aruba Networks to improve patient care in mobile Electronic Medical Records, patient registration applications, Real-Time Location Tracking, and video surveillance...

Supported by Sky Perfect JSAT, KVH's newest mini-VSAT coverage area now supports broadband Internet and voice services for maritime and aeronautical applications...

Web-based analyst Seeking Alpha is predicting that Vietnam will emerge as a major market for mobile broadband by the end of 2014. Vendors of 3G equipment are expected to benefit from the boom...

On2 Technologies, which specialises in video compression solutions, has licensed its VP7 video codec to 21ViaNet (China). Founded in 1996, 21ViaNet is a carrier-neutral Internet Data Centre (IDC) service provider in China...

Cellular coverage in the dense and capacity-strained central business district of Jakarta is set to improve thanks to a new contract for outdoor DAS (Distributed Antenna Systems) announced by Indonesia's leading cellular distribution company, P.T. Solusi Tunas Pratama (STP)...