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Workers install raised floors and overhead systems inside an unfinished data hall.

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.

Jul 18, 2026
A transparent conceptual data-centre massing hovers over an empty tropical parcel beside homes, survey markers and a utility corridor.

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.

Jul 18, 2026
An unbranded satellite uplink and broadcast control room connected by duplicated cable paths, illustrating procurement and unused-capacity risk at Nepal Television.

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…

Jul 18, 2026
Unmarked file folders and converging cable paths sit before dormant telecom switching racks and a generic communications tower.

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.

Jul 18, 2026
Dense urban rooftops with generic cellular towers and fixed-wireless gateways feeding a central network facility, above a nearly level cable-support balance beam.

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.

Jul 18, 2026
A worn generic telecom timing appliance with an amber indicator sits among managed fibre links, with cellular towers visible beyond the equipment room.

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.

Jul 18, 2026
Empty server racks and a power meter inside a data-centre hall, illustrating HeungKong's utilisation and fixed-cost risk in Ningxia.

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.

Jul 18, 2026
Aerial illustration of a large data centre campus in Sydney

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.

Jul 17, 2026
Editorial illustration of Nokia 5G radio equipment and a network technician overlooking Taipei

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.

Jul 17, 2026
Editorial illustration of Nokia 5G radio equipment and a network technician overlooking Taipei

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.

Jul 16, 2026
Editorial illustration of a satellite ground station, the Taiwan flag and Taipei 101 representing proposed ownership exemptions for satellite operators.

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.

Jul 15, 2026
Editorial illustration showing SK Telecom, SK AX and Technomatrix supporting testing, deployment and operations for the A.X K2 sovereign AI model.

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

Jul 15, 2026
Illustration of a smartphone connecting directly to a satellite, representing NTT DoCoMo's Starlink Direct service extending mobile coverage in remote areas.

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.

Jul 14, 2026
HFCL plans a fibre preform manufacturing plant alongside its OptiQ AI data centre connectivity portfolio.

Asia-Pacific National Telecom

HFCL Plans Fibre Preform Plant

HFCL launched a data centre connectivity product portfolio and plans to build a fibre preform plant to expand optical manufacturing operations.

Jul 14, 2026
Construction professionals inspect a large data centre development site as TMX Transform launches TMX Edge to support data centre delivery projects across the Asia-Pacific region.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter

TMX launches TMX Edge consultancy for APAC data centres

TMX Edge has launched to address a growing gap between data centre investment and the industry's ability to deliver projects across Asia-Pacific.

Jul 8, 2026
A modern AI data centre beside a hydropower dam in Bhutan, illustrating the country's renewable energy resources supporting AI infrastructure development.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends

Sato plans AI data centre in Bhutan

Sato's planned AI data centre highlights how access to renewable power is becoming a competitive advantage for countries seeking to attract AI infrastructure.

Jul 8, 2026
A quantum computer connected to cloud infrastructure representing MegazoneCloud's partnership with Pasqal to deliver enterprise quantum computing services in South Korea.

Asia-Pacific Cloud Services Trends

MegazoneCloud partners with Pasqal for quantum cloud services

MegazoneCloud's partnership with Pasqal shows how enterprises are likely to access quantum computing first: through cloud platforms rather than dedicated hardware.

Jul 8, 2026
Illustration of a telecom tower and urban communications network with a digital outage warning representing Telstra's nationwide service disruption caused by a network timing system fault.

Asia-Pacific National Telecom

Telstra traces nationwide outage to network timing failure

A fault in network timing systems disrupted services across Australia, showing how synchronisation technology underpins modern telecom networks.

Jul 8, 2026
Digital illustration of AI data centres integrated with semiconductor, power and network infrastructure, representing South Korea's national AI infrastructure strategy.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter

SK Group unveils 15GW AI data centre plan for South Korea

SK Telecom's investment suggests countries are increasingly competing through AI infrastructure rather than technology development alone.

Jul 7, 2026
A digital illustration showing hybrid satellite networks connecting Indonesia through geostationary and very low Earth orbit satellites, linking telecom infrastructure across the archipelago.

Asia-Pacific National Telecom

Indonesian telco and Univity explore hybrid satellite network

The Telkomsat–Univity partnership suggests satellite connectivity is becoming part of telecom networks rather than a separate service.

Jul 7, 2026