KPMG’s Daryl Pereira offers cyber security advice to Asia’s SMEs – prepare to be hacked, because you may not be as prepared as you think you are. Two years ago, the typical SME felt that Read more…
With 133% mobile phone penetration, connectivity in Thailand is no longer a problem. This has bought with it 40 million Internet banking accounts, 19 million mobile banking accounts and a rapidly growing e-commerce sector. The 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…
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…
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…
CommunicAsia2017 news bites: Iridium tracks IoT, Inmarsat Vanuatu pilot, ST Electronics enables 2FA, Global-IP Cayman taps Hughes VSATs Iridium launches IoT tracking solution Iridium Communications has officially launched Iridium Edge, a global asset tracking, safety and Read more…
The CommunicAsia 2017 summit kicked off on Tuesday with a bold statement for operators on 5G readiness: don’t wait for standards – start now if you want to cash in on a projected half-a-trillion-dollar revenue Read more…
As the telecoms industry bravely soldiers on into the digital 5G/IoT era, the main hurdles in their way include serious trust and security issues, and possibly underestimating just how big the IoT is going to Read more…
Satellite company SES Networks has launched a new hybrid resiliency platform that leverages multiple orbit levels to offer bandwidth-on-demand services, with Palau Telecoms signing on as the first customer. The new managed service, announced at Read more…
Currently on the CommunicAsia exhibition floor: a Canadian startup that aims to democratize data query for business data via a natural language interface that allows non-techy execs to speak queries rather than type them. Kelly Read more…
CommunicAsia2017 news bites: Huawei cloud pact, Intelsat and Telkom colocate, Speedcast goes rural, SDN/NFV-based BNG/BRAS Huawei, REDtone and Fusionex in APAC cloud services pact Huawei, REDtone and Fusionex have formed a partnership to serve the rapid increase Read more…
CommunicAsia is back again, and if you’re attending this year, you’re going to be hearing a lot about smart cities and smart nations – not least because you’ll be smack in the middle of one, Read more…
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