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As the Asia Pacific (APAC) region accelerates through its digital evolution, mobile network operators (MNOs) find themselves grappling with an urgent challenge: the protection of Application-to-Person (A2P) SMS, a crucial communication channel. Despite its…
Signs have not been good lately for Singtel, StarHub and M1, the country’s three large telecommunications companies. Technological innovations, as well as changes in regulations, have sent shock waves through the big three companies, and virtual mobile telcos…
Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten has secured government approval to deploy 4G mobile services in the 1.7-GHz frequency band, and now plans to launch as the nation’s fourth mobile operator in October. New subsidiary Rakuten Mobile Network plans to raise up to…
As part of its plan to become the country’s fourth mobile carrier, Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten is teaming up with a handful of local electric utilities to leverage the latter’s infrastructure and facilities to build its own 4G mobile network in Japan.…
