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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Two Perth cable faults prompt call for AFP investigation
Two faults inside Perth’s protected cable corridor have raised questions about their cause and whether the incidents were connected.
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ANU report calls for priority subsea cable repair access
An ANU report says Australia should secure priority repair access for subsea cables as security concerns grow around critical undersea infrastructure.
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Echo subsea cable lands in Singapore
Echo has landed in Singapore, extending a US-Southeast Asia route that bypasses the South China Sea but is not yet fully operational.
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The Trans-Caspian cable has crossed the sea; the unfinished shore now sets the clock
The 380-kilometre fibre link between Sumgayit and Aktau has completed its marine lay, moving the Trans-Caspian project beyond the cable-ship phase reported in July. Yet the operators themselves say coastal integration and terrestrial construction are still under way. The wet…
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India signs MoU for 350-acre Gwalior telecom manufacturing zone
India’s Gwalior telecom manufacturing zone pairs public land and infrastructure funding with private investment commitments that have yet to become operating factories.
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China Unicom lands Hong Kong-Cambodia cable
SHV-HK adds a direct Hong Kong-Cambodia subsea path, but its operational role will depend on when capacity is activated and used.
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StarHub’s MyRepublic migration concentrates the network, not the customer contract
StarHub will become the mobile-network host for all MyRepublic customers in Singapore, taking over the 4G layer that M1 has supplied since 2020 while retaining the 5G layer it already carried. The agreement concentrates wholesale traffic on one network, but it does not disclose…
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DOCOMO’s 6.5 million satellite connections measure reach, not revenue
NTT DOCOMO says 6.5 million people have connected to its direct-to-device Starlink service since late April. The number is meaningful evidence that satellite fallback is reaching ordinary handsets; because access is free and requires no application, it is not a subscriber, usage…
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China Tower and Huawei launch TunnelStar for tunnel 5G coverage
TunnelStar recorded higher coverage and speed in two company-run pilots, but wider deployment will depend on repeatable performance across different tunnel layouts.
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MBSB provides Huawei RM400m facility for U Mobile 5G
MBSB’s facility gives Huawei earlier access to cash while U Mobile’s 5G rollout remains tied to equipment delivery, acceptance and activation.
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Sterlite’s $210m fibre contract leaves the most important quantities blank
Sterlite Technologies has a three-year international agreement for high-density optical-fibre cable worth about $210 million. The filing fixes the product, duration and headline value, but not the customer, volume, annual schedule or commercial protections that would turn an…
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MegaFon Tajikistan expands 4G sites and fibre transport
MegaFon Tajikistan upgraded 4G sites and fibre transport in the first half, while its 1.1Gbps 5G result remains a test.
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Paul Abfalter appointed FLAG chief executive
Abfalter moves from strategy and revenue leadership into the top operating role, while outgoing chief executive Carl Grivner becomes chairman.
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L3Harris cleared a mechanical gate for ViaSat-3 F3, not the commercial one
The successful deployment of L3Harris’s first perimeter truss reflector on ViaSat‑3 F3 is a decisive physical event: hardware that travelled folded can now take the shape required to focus radio signals. It is also one stage in a longer chain. Viasat still has to complete…
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China Mobile’s True filing turns an exit story into a possible portfolio trim
True Corporation used a 4 August filing to reject the claim that China Mobile International intended to sell its entire 7.81% holding. According to True’s CFO, the shareholder was only assessing a possible sale of a small portion and intended to remain a long-term shareholder and…
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Japan’s warning to LY Corporation is about a missing control path, not a data-sale finding
Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications issued written administrative guidance to LY Corporation after a LINE game-development partner transmitted MID identifiers and other specified user information to a third-party analytics service. The ministry says the path…
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DOCOMO’s Ericsson choice moves the RAN bottleneck into compute
NTT DOCOMO has selected Ericsson RAN Compute as a baseband platform spanning 4G, 5G and 5G-Advanced. The decision matters because radio capacity is increasingly governed by processing, pooling and software lifecycle as well as antennas. Ericsson says the new generation can…
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The Trans-Caspian cable has entered the seabed; it has not yet entered service
A specialised vessel has departed Baku and begun laying fibre toward Aktau, converting the Trans-Caspian project from stored equipment into a physical route across the Caspian Sea. Kazakhstan’s government says regulatory, organisational and customs obstacles were resolved, a…
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Chinese localities expand data centres despite overbuild concerns
China’s local data-centre push is expanding into towns and counties, raising questions over whether new computing capacity will attract enough demand.
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KT’s fine is 225 times the theft the regulator could count
South Korea’s privacy regulator fined KT KRW53.979 billion after a rogue femtocell exposed identifiers belonging to 16,647 people and enabled about KRW240 million of unauthorised mobile payments. The arithmetic is striking: the fine is roughly 225 times the confirmed direct loss.…