Asia-Pacific Trends
Asia-Pacific Trends
Asia-Pacific market trend intelligence tracks cloud service, regional ISP, national telecom, data centre, and institutional infrastructure signals across Asia-Pacific internet infrastructure markets. BTW.
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Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
S7's cooling redesign moves a water constraint into the power budget
NEXTDC's planned 612MW S7 data centre in Western Sydney has dropped a recycled-water cooling proposal because the required pipeline lacked infrastructure and planning permission. The replacement—liquid cooling at the chip with waterless fan-based heat rejection—reduces dependence…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
Chunghwa will use submarine cables as an APN test bench, not a launch platform
Chunghwa Telecom, Fujitsu and 1Finity have agreed to a two-year programme to verify all-photonics networking on Chunghwa’s submarine-cable systems and study distributed data centres. The commitment creates a real test surface, but no equipment order, capacity figure, route…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
KDDI moved satellite-to-phone links into the drone control loop
A May flight in rural Ibaraki showed that a drone outside terrestrial mobile coverage could exchange commands and telemetry directly through au Starlink Direct. The experiment is narrow, but it changes the engineering question from whether a satellite link can reach a handset to…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
Indonesia's spectrum signature makes the ranking final, not the networks ready
Minister Meutya Hafid's 21 July signature closed the legal gap left by Indonesia's 10 July spectrum ranking and the 14 July no-objection period. It did not rerun the bids. XLSmart now holds the largest low-band block, Telkomsel the largest mid-band block, and all three winners…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
JLM has installed an Indonesia-Singapore optical layer; its capacity number remains undisclosed
PT Jala Lintas Media is using Ribbon's Apollo platform for a new DWDM and data-centre interconnect deployment between Indonesia and Singapore. The first phase changes the operating path for cloud and AI traffic. It does not disclose how many wavelengths are equipped, which subsea…
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
NEXTDC's sales ledger is 740MW; its billing floor is still 175MW
NEXTDC added 73MW of customer contracts and lifted pro forma contracted utilisation to 740MW. The demand signal is substantial, but the operating state is not: 565MW sits in the forward order book while 175MW was billing at 30 June. Sales uncertainty has fallen, and the burden of…
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
Fujitsu’s five-centre sale makes continuity the first asset to transfer
Next Capital is buying an operating Australian data-centre platform, not five empty buildings. Contracts and staff are meant to move with it after completion, while Fujitsu keeps the business running and redirects investment toward higher-layer technology services.
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
NTT's Bangkok fit-out award shifts spending into data halls
Leighton Asia will install the internal systems that make an NTT data-centre campus usable, providing a firmer demand signal than a development plan while leaving the project's size and schedule largely undisclosed.
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
Kota Damansara data-centre dispute is headed to Malaysia's Cabinet
The announced escalation does not cancel the proposal, but it turns a local planning objection into a test of whether Malaysia's data-centre screening should cover neighbourhood siting as explicitly as power and water.
Asia-Pacific Institutional Trends
Nepal Television probe puts NPR206m loss behind years of satellite contracting
A government-appointed committee says procurement choices stretching back to Nepal Television's 2012 satellite-bandwidth agreement cost the public broadcaster NPR206.17 million, turning a technical supply contract into a test of price discovery, service resilience and…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
RCom second chargesheet puts ₹196.94bn lender exposure back in focus
The CBI has added a former Reliance Communications engineering affiliate and two directors to its prosecution, but the ₹19,694.33 crore figure is system-wide lender exposure recorded in the FIR—not a loss yet proved against the new defendants.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
Jio's EBITDA margin expands while 5G costs restrain profit growth
Jio Platforms grew subscribers, revenue and EBITDA in the first quarter of FY27, but a modest ARPU increase and sharply higher finance costs show why network scale is converting into accounting profit more slowly than the headline operating margin suggests.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
Telstra hearing turns its timing outage into a preventable controls failure
New Senate evidence shifts Telstra's July outage from an unexplained timing fault to a preventable asset-lifecycle and change-control failure, with 45% of mobile sessions affected at peak, 604 Triple Zero errors and more than 8,000 compensation requests.
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
HeungKong's 27MW data-centre bet starts with an empty order book
A five-year RMB795.6 million capacity plan in Ningxia puts recurring costs ahead of customer demand at a company already contending with falling revenue and continuing losses.
Asia-Pacific Datacenter
Macquarie acquires site in Sydney for 200MW data centre campus
Macquarie developed its campus plan in Sydney, but the size and timing of each construction stage have not yet been determined.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom
Nokia Expands Taiwan Mobile 5G Agreement
Taiwan Mobile expands radio capacity while introducing software for network monitoring, energy management, and automated optimization.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom
Nokia expands Taiwan Mobile 5G deal with radio and automation
Taiwan Mobile expands radio capacity while introducing software for network monitoring, energy management and automated optimisation.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
Taiwan eases foreign ownership rules for satellite network operators
The proposal would let satellite operators seek exemptions from fixed ownership rules through a case-by-case review of security and operating arrangements.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom
SK Telecom Adds Deployment Partners to Sovereign AI Consortium
A.X K2 prepares for its next government evaluation with partners tasked with industrial testing, deployment, and post-deployment operations
Asia-Pacific National Telecom
NTT DOCOMO Reaches 5 Million Starlink D2D Users
NTT DOCOMO’s Starlink Direct service reached 5 million users within two months, providing an early metric for customer adoption of direct-to-device satellite connectivity.