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Many operators have accelerated preparations for the arrival of 5G, and are increasingly looking to the enterprise as well as the consumer market as potential customers, research from Ericsson indicates. A survey of operators that have publicly announced…
India’s Reliance Communications (RCom) has called off a planned merger of its wireless business with rival Aircel as a result of regulatory uncertainty and opposition from some creditors. RCom had been planning to merge its wireless business with Aircel to…
China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has given approval for a pilot program involving opening investment in China Unicom to the private sector, to evaluate transitioning to a mixed ownership model for the market’s state-owned operators.…
Taiwan’s mobile operators have completed the switch-off of their respective 2G networks. The switch-off on Saturday has left the nation’s remaining 2G holdouts unable to place any calls except for emergency calls, or send or receive text messages or use data…
New Zealand’s mobile operators Spark, Vodafone New Zealand and 2degrees have submitted a joint proposal to improve rural broadband and mobile infrastructure under two government programs. The operators have applied to be selected for the Rural Broadband…
India’s second and third ranked mobile operators, Vodafone India and Idea Cellular, have revealed plans to merge to create the India’s largest operator by market share. The companies have announced that Vodafone will combine its Vodafone India subsidiary with…
The Philippines’ Globe Telecom announced it has become the first operator in the nation to implement 4-component-carrier aggregation LTE-Advanced using the 2600-MHz band. The upgrade effectively doubles LTE capacity in areas covered by the deployment, the…
Ericsson has launched a new telecoms security product designed to enable automated security orchestration across multiple ICT domains. The Ericsson Security Manager supports out-of-the-box security for telco cloud operations, physical and virtual networks and…
Japan’s Energia Communications has signed a partnership and reseller agreement covering Nokia’s G.fast technology. Energia Communications plans to offer G.fast nationwide across Japan as part of an initiative to expand its utility service provider operations.…
Nokia has announced the launch of MIKA, the first digital assistant customized for the telecommunications industry. MIKA (multi-purpose intuitive knowledge assistant) is designed to provide voice-activated access to information for telecoms engineers, to…
The Philippines’ Globe Telecom has allocated a capex budget for 2017 of around $750 million as the operator invests to expand its data network. The operator will spend the majority of its capex budget for the year on data network expansion, including…
China Mobile will deploy NFV software from Brocade at several of its key data centers as part of its first SDN-based commercial public cloud rollout. The operator is deploying virtual traffic management technology from the networking vendor, initially at its…
PT Indosat Ooredoo is ready to launch its 4.5G technology in 2017 that is two times faster than its 4G predecessor, said a company spokesman. “We have been developing the 4.5G technology since 2012 and we are ready to launch this year, starting with the…
Myanmar’s newly-licensed fourth mobile operator will use the brand name Mytel, and will aim to differentiate by targeting rural areas and competing on price. The joint venture between Vietnam’s Viettel, the consortium of local ICT companies that make up…
Australian fixed line operator TPG Telecom has won the new entrant spectrum auction to become Singapore’s fourth mobile network operator. TPG submitted the winning bid of S$105 million ($72.8 million) for a provisional allocation of 60 MHz of spectrum in the…
Thailand’s telecoms regulator NBTC has warned operators that they will have their operating licenses immediately revoked if they fail to register prepaid SIMs sold from now on. The regulator has also warned that operators may be fined if phones with an…
