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Singapore is the top Smart Fiber City in Asia-Pacific, according to a new ranking released at the FTTH Council Asia Pacific Conference in Wuhan, China. The inaugural Smart Fiber Cities ranking list Singapore as the region’s Champion, due to the city’s 93%…
Indonesia’s FiberStar has signed an agreement with Huawei to jointly expand high-speed fiber network services in the market. FiberStar recently partnered with Huawei to build a 1Tbps backbone DWDM network linking Jakarta with Surabaya. The network consists of…
NTT Docomo and its Singapore subsidiary NTT Docomo Asia have commenced a trial of an IoT monitoring system to improve the manufacturing performance of a synthetic-fibers factory in Thailand. In the trial, Docomo Asia is deploying the IoT Solution Platform to…
Indian operators are calling for the establishment of a fund to help incentivize deployments of fiber across the country ahead of the introduction of 5G. The Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) has urged the government to offer incentives including…
Huawei has provided its Agile WAN Solution to the Philippines’ Converge ICT Solutions to support the operator’s goal of rolling out the Philippines’ first pure end-to-end fiber network. Converge, which started as a HFC-based cable TV operator, has deployed an…
India’s Reliance Industries, parent company of operator Reliance Jio Infocomm, has announced strategic investments in two multiple system operators (MSOs) to accelerate the planned JioGigaFiber rollout. The company plans to invest 22.9 billion rupees ($311.48…
Sri Lanka Telecom expects its heavy investments in its fiber network to start paying off, with broadband revenues dominating the company’s balance sheet over the next three years. The operator has invested over 70 billion rupees ($446.25 million) to expand…
The New Zealand government plans to extend its Ultra-Fast Broadband (UFB) national fiber network to 190 more small towns. The government has announced plans to spend NZ$130 million ($93.4 million) to extend the network to 60,000 new households and businesses…
Australian fiber network operator Vocus Communications has revealed it has secured two competing non-binding takeover bids valuing the company at A$2.2 billion ($1.69 billion). Affinity Equity Partners has submitted a preliminary offer to acquire 100% of…
Nepal’s WorldLink has engaged Nokia to deploy the nation’s first 100G optical network. WorldLink, Nepal’s largest fixed broadband operator, is upgrading its 650km backbone network with Nokia’s PSS DWDM technology. The backbone network spans from capital…
Repair work on the broken international cable won’t start until July 3 and will take at least 10 days to complete. International internet connections in Vietnam are likely to remain slow for another three weeks with repair work to a major internet cable which…
Thailand’s first state-provided high speed fixed broadband services for rural areas are on track to launch by mid-2018, according to reports. The fiber-based service will be offered to 3,920 border villages across 62 provinces by this time, providing…
NEC and Netcracker Technology have successfully conducted a trial, in collaboration with K-Opticom, for a system combining NFV and 10G-EPON technologies. The companies said the trial verified for the first time ever that virtualized customer premises…
PCCW’s HKT has revealed plans to build what it is calling a “fiber super highway” connecting the Tseung Kwan O Industrial Estate (TKOIE) with the Chai Wan area. The Ultra Express Link will be a 3km high-capacity, low-latency subsea cable system spanning the…
PCCW Global, the international operating division of Richard Li-owned HKT, has selected Djibouti Data Center (DDC) to facilitate network expansion and the provision of colocation and undersea fiber cable access services in East Africa. The Djibouti Data…
Singapore’s M1 has been selected as the Fibre Ready Scheme (FRS) partner for property developer Ascendas-Singbridge, and has completed the first commercial fiber upgrade installation under the deal. The companies have equipped seven-storey integrated business…
