Philippines-based operator Smart Communications announced a partnership with Google Cloud in a move to gain subscriber data insights to improve accessibility to digital services. 

A recent Indian Supreme Court licence fee ruling could mean that some of the country's operators will be hit with large retrospective tax demands.

According to industry body the GSMA over half (54%) of the world’s population owns a smartphone, but the rate of new mobile internet users has slowed. 

Two new data centres will support growing hyperscale and enterprise demand in India’s Chennai region, according to the partners in a major joint venture.

Pakistan and Indonesia are preparing to auction 5G spectrum in the near future.

TikTok, the short-form video hosting service owned by Chinese internet technology company ByteDance, has ended its online retail operation in Indonesia after the country imposed a ban on e-commerce transactions on social media platforms.

SoftBank Corp, the telecommunications subsidiary of the investment holding company SoftBank Group Corp, has announced that from October 2023 it will launch a full-fledged expansion of its global IoT business in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region.

Sabah, a Malaysian state located on the northern portion of Borneo, in the East Malaysia region, is to play host to a Tier IV data centre worth RM119 million (about US$25.2 million).

Thailand’s PROEN Corp has deployed Qwilt and Cisco’s Open Edge Content Delivery Network (CDN) solution to improve the quality and delivery capacity of its digital content and applications.

A legal case brought against the Philippines’ National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) by operator NOW Telecom has been dismissed by the country’s Court of Appeals.

The Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur (IIT-K) and InterDigital, a mobile and video technology research and development company, have announced a bilateral research partnership to develop enabling technologies that impact future wireless standards.

Indonesian fintech firm Yokke has formed a strategic partnership with Japan’s SB Payment Service Corp, a unit of SoftBank.

PLDT’s enterprise subsidiary ePLDT is set to invest US$600 million to build its 12th data centre facility in the Philippines, a move to remain competitive against rivals in B2B.

Globe Telecom struck a deal to sell off its 77% stake in fintech company Electronic Commerce Payments (ECPay) to Mynt for PHP2.3 billion (US$40.7 million).

Telkom Indonesia’s Patara-2 submarine cable system, supplied by NEC, is now complete and operational.

Copenhagen, September 20, 2023 – Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (“IOH” or “Indosat”) will celebrate its 56th anniversary this year. Since officially operating as a newly merged entity on January 4, 2022, Indosat was born with the larger purpose to connect and empower the people of Indonesia by accelerating the nation's digital transformation.

Allo Technology is implementing Infinera’s ICE-X intelligent coherent pluggables and XTM Series to boost its nationwide optical network and expand services across Malaysia.

In what could be a significant development for space-based 5G, operator China Telecom, technology giant ZTE and Beijing-based company SpaceIoT say they have completed the industry’s first 5G non-terrestrial network (NTN) deployment in a marine scenario.

Globe Telecom partnered with the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) and four ISPs to fight back against piracy and protect intellectual property. 

Malaysia’s rural broadband service provider MEASAT says it is now connecting close to 600 school sites in remote locations throughout the country through its CONNECTme NOW high-speed wireless satellite broadband services.

Subsea cable developments continue to make headlines, with two more news stories just announced, this time relating to Asia Direct Cable (ADC) and Trans Europe Asia System (TEAS).

At Huawei Connect 2023, iFLYTEK and Huawei Data Center Network (DCN) initiated a joint innovation project to build a super-connectivity AI base.

Globe Telecom secured a PHP15 billion (US$263 million) loan from Metropolitan Bank & Trust Company to finance its network upgrade and debt refinancing.

Data centre provider Princeton Digital Group (PDG), has launched its 22MW hyperscale data centre facility Jakarta Cibitung 2 (JC2) in Greater Jakarta, Indonesia. Located, as its name implies, in Cibitung, the campus is 35 kilometres from Jakarta’s Central Business District.

ZTE has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with China Mobile Research Institute and Guangzhou MINO Equipment to cooperate on 5G-A Industrial Field Network Technology.