Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
National Telecom trend intelligence tracks national telecom market trends, 5G rollout, fibre modernisation, wholesale network strategy, spectrum pressure, and digital infrastructure investment in Asia-Pacific, giving readers a fuller view of the demand shifts, capacity constraints, platform strategies, capital timing, regulatory pressure, and operating assumptions behind the market.
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USTDA backs Thailand-US subsea cable study
USTDA is funding feasibility work for National Telecom's proposed THUS cable, which would avoid the South China Sea and could connect five other Southeast Asian markets.
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NTT DOCOMO deploys Nokia baseband in Open RAN
NTT DOCOMO is using Nokia's latest baseband with radios from other suppliers in its commercial LTE and 5G network.
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SoftBank tests HAPS service ahead of 2027 launch
A Sceye platform crossed the Pacific and carried calls, messages and data over SoftBank's network, moving the project beyond earlier airborne demonstrations.
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SoftBank's overseas satellite offer has a retail boundary
Three countries are scheduled for 28 September, with the Philippines to follow in autumn. The shared constellation does not make every subscriber's roaming rights interchangeable.
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Okazaki's fibre expansion comes with several retail contracts
NTT WEST plans to extend access and television services into parts of the Japanese city. One physical line does not mean one internet subscription, one viewing entitlement or one retail counterparty.
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US and India add undersea-cable security to TRUST
A September workshop put cable resilience and supplier security inside the TRUST framework, but no new route, budget or construction timetable has been announced.
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XLSMART marks Batam landing for CANDLE cable
CANDLE has reached Batam, but its value to local data centres will depend on how the landing connects into terrestrial networks and commercial services.
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Australia pledges stronger telecom resilience after Optus outage
The 76-minute disruption affected some emergency calls, renewing scrutiny of whether recovery systems remain usable when a network fails.
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VTS cable target shifts to 2030 as Gulf joins
Gulf Development has joined Singtel in the VTS cable project, which now targets 2030 for service after an earlier plan pointed to 2027.
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Optus apologises after outage disrupts emergency calls
Optus's 76-minute outage disrupted emergency calls, showing why restoration and caller follow-up must be handled separately.
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DOCOMO puts radio supplier choice into commercial operation
The Japanese operator has connected multiple vendors' radios to newer Nokia baseband equipment. The commercial value lies in sustaining those choices through upgrades, not merely declaring an open interface.
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Chorus wants more time to keep the savings from fibre deals
New submissions ask New Zealand's regulator to change both the threshold for revisiting a price path and the treatment of acquisition savings. The commercial question is when those gains pass from a buyer to network users.
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STL gains US plenum rating for fibre trunks
STL's pre-terminated fibre trunks now carry US plenum certification, adding a fire-test qualification for indoor data-centre cabling.
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Jharkhand signs BharatNet fibre agreement
Jharkhand's BharatNet agreement covers network upgrades across more than 31,000 villages and targets 439,049 fibre-to-the-home connections over five years.
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Gulf joins Singtel on VTS subsea cable
Gulf and Singtel will develop the VTS subsea link between Thailand and Singapore, with service targeted for 2030.
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Vietnam awards 900MHz spectrum as 2G shuts down
VNPT, Viettel, and Vietnamobile have secured 15-year 900MHz licences, allowing them to reallocate spectrum used for 2G to newer mobile services.
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VNPT picks Radcom for roaming assurance
VNPT is replacing its roaming-monitoring supplier with Radcom, whose platform will track service quality across several cloud environments.
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RADCOM's VNPT win starts with roaming, not the whole network
The named Vietnamese customer gives an earlier order a clearer identity. It does not turn a roaming assignment into a network-wide award.
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Telstra tests 1.6Tbps optical transmission over 1,100km
Telstra's 1.6Tbps trial extends optical reach without regeneration between Melbourne and Sydney, but the result remains route-specific.
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Spark launches fixed-path Auckland data-centre links
Spark's new Auckland interconnect offers 10G to 400G links, but customers needing optical restoration must use a different transport service.