State telco TOT and Dtac held a press conference Friday to provide details on a deal that will see Dtac build a 2300-MHz TDD-LTE network for TOT and then rent back 60% of it as Read more…
LONDON (Reuters) – Alistair Cross was flying high after showing in a pilot project how blockchain – the technology first developed for the crypto-currency bitcoin – could transform the old-fashioned and secretive world of commodity Read more…
HANOI (Reuters) – Google’s parent firm, Alphabet, will work with Vietnam’s communist government to stamp out “toxic” and illegal information on its platform, the Southeast Asian nation said on Friday. Vietnam tolerates little dissent and Read more…
LONDON (Reuters) – British Airways cancelled all its flights from London’s two biggest airports on Saturday after a global computer system failure caused confusion and chaos, with thousands of passengers queuing for hours and planes Read more…
Qualcomm China, Jianguang Asset Management (JAC Capital), Leadcore and Wise Road Capital have signed an agreement to form a joint venture called JLQ Technology, which will focus on the design, packaging, testing, customer support and Read more…
True has awarded Ericsson a contract to deploy indoor networks across Thailand using Dual Band Dots to improve indoor connectivity. True will install the Dots from this month, focusing on the northern, southern, and central Read more…
The Broadband Forum says it is making good headway on Cloud Central Office (CloudCO), the first project in its overall attempt to marry broadband access technologies and open source, but it hasn’t been easy, admits Read more…
A common mantra in the telecoms sector is that 5G and IoT are two sides of the same evolutionary coin – that 5G will enable profitable IoT apps, and that IoT is the chief business Read more…
The shift to cloud-based services and network virtualization promises many benefits, but it’s also contributing to an increasingly complex cloud landscape that is forcing cloud service providers and even network security vendors to rethink their Read more…
Hot on the heels of last year’s VoLTE service launch, Malaysian cellco YTL Communications is on the move again and making big plans to start work on 5G in the coming months. In this interview, Read more…
Telcos and banks struggle with delivering a good customer experience despite being competitive markets. Michael Porter’s competition analysis model could explain why. I was in Italy and needed mobile data, as I was without a Read more…
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Kik Interactive, which created the chat platform Kik, said on Thursday it was launching a crypto-currency or token called Kin that would enable customers to use a whole range of digital Read more…
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Facebook has signed deals with millennial-focused news and entertainment creators Vox Media, BuzzFeed, ATTN, Group Nine Media and others to make shows for its upcoming video service, which will feature long Read more…
Rohit Talwar, futurist and CEO of Fast Future, said that his job as a futurist is not to predict the future, but to prepare a range of scenarios so that we are not shocked when Read more…
Satellite may not be the sexiest of technologies at a time when the telecoms industry is obsessed with 5G, but satellite companies are fully prepared to be a relevant part of that ecosystem, insists Intelsat. Read more…
The plenary panel on Day 2 of the CommunicAsia2017 summit featured telecoms regulators from across the region sharing their most pressing concerns. At the top of the list: 5G, connecting the unconnected, spurring innovation and Read more…
ST Electronics has unveiled a new smart car park platform that runs on the company’s brand new cloud-based IoT platform designed for smart cities. The Smart Car Park Platform, announced and showcased at CommunicAsia2017 in Read more…
India is leading the way in IPv6 end users, thanks to one ISP turning on v6 last year and showing the world that it is possible to deploy IPv6 for the end user at scale, Read more…
Enter the new world of human capital analytics with Grace Yip, COO Group Human Resources at DBS Bank. In this interview Grace explains how her company uses the power of analytics to completely change the Read more…
Nokia announced it is collaborating with NTT DoCoMo for 5G interoperability testing of multi-vendor technology in the 4.5-GHz frequency band. The tests will use Nokia’s 5G First solution, incorporating the Nokia AirScale base station transmitting Read more…
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