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The City of Shanghai has launched 5G trials in the Hongkou district, which also has the distinction of having a gigabit broadband network. The 5G trial, backed by China Mobile, involves providing full coverage of the district. During a commencement ceremony…
Australian retailer Healthy Life will join the nation’s largest health food store group, Go Vita, in the hope of strengthening the retail health channel. GoVita has more than 135 independently-owned and operated health stores in its network. Going forward,…
Bonjour Holdings sales fell 7.3 per cent last year as the health and beauty products retailer reorganised its store network. The company reported a loss attributable to shareholders of HK$39.6 million (US$5 million), which was a significant improvement on the…
Huawei has reported a solid 25.1% increase in net profit for 2018 despite the continuing political challenges the vendor has been facing in the US and other markets. The Chinese vendor reported a net profit for the year of 59.3 billion yuan ($8.83 billion),…
ZTE expects to have swung back to profit in the first quarter, after reporting an annual loss in 2018 as a result of the temporary ban on its import of components from US vendors. The Chinese vendor estimates a net profit for the first quarter of 800 million…
The WMX service in Mexico will expand by early Q2 2019 into 17 new origin cities, including Zapopan, Toluca, Cuernavaca, Cuatla, Pachuca, Saltillo, Aguascalientes, Puebla, Celaya, San Luis Potosi, Torreon, Morelia, Leon, Guanajuato, Jalapa, Orizaba and…
The Vietnamese government will tomorrow formally launch a project to establish a National Innovation Centre in Hanoi to help lay the groundwork for Vietnam to capitalize on the Industry 4.0 era. The project is set to break ground later this year and could be…
Japan’s Rakuten announced it has arranged to use open source technologies provided by Red Hat in its upcoming end-to-end cloud native mobile network. The network, which is scheduled to launch in October, will use Red Hat’s open hybrid cloud technologies,…
India’s Bharti Airtel has contracted Ciena to deploy a large-scale photonic control plane backbone network that will connect more than 4,000 towns across the nation. Under the agreement, announced at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the companies will…
CITIC Telecom CPC, a subsidiary of CITIC Telecom International Holdings Limited, is launching new connected SmartCLOUD Services Center in Moscow and London. Stephen Ho, CEO of CITIC Telecom CPC, said the ‘Europe & Russia Cloud Ring’ will be crucial for…
Singapore’s StarHub has revealed it is pursuing network sharing arrangements to further cut costs, after announcing a planned 12% reduction in the operator’s workforce. The operator could reach a commercial network sharing agreement shortly and be reaping…
Myanmar’s largest pure-play ISP Myanmar Net contracted Ruckus Networks to deploy a carrier-grade Wi-Fi network across all major townships in Yangon and Mandalay. Through the deployment, Myanmar Net is offering consumers and businesses internet access at…
South Korean convenience store company GS Retail plans to grow its health and beauty store network by up to 300 this year. After running Watsons outlets through a 50-50 JV with AS Watson, GS Retail bought the balance of shares from the Hong Kong-based firm…
Elite Global Logistics Network (EGLN) has announced to its membership during its annual conference in Vietnam this week, that it has reached a formal agreement for WCA Ltd to acquire a majority interest in the rapidly-growing network. Formed in 2015, EGLN has…
Nokia has teamed up with the Broadband Forum (BBF) to lead the new Broadband Access Abstraction (BAA) project, which aims to leverage open source software to drive the adoption of software-defined fixed access networks. The BBA project, which was created…
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…
