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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 Institutional Trends
Digital mobility must improve driver take-home pay
An open booking platform can reduce dependence on a dominant intermediary. Its public value is proven in driver income, service reliability and fair disputes.
Asia-Pacific Datacenter
Bridge Data Centres launches PowerCore 5.0 power module
Bridge Data Centres launched PowerCore 5.0, a prefabricated power module that moves assembly and testing off-site for high-density AI facilities.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
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.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
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.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
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…
Asia-Pacific Cloud Services Trends
Sharon AI has sold five years of demand before it has started the revenue clock
Sharon AI’s new contract creates a precise commercial promise and an imprecise operating obligation. An unnamed global AI platform has agreed to a five-year, $373m take-or-pay service, with an initial deployment expected to use 2,048 NVIDIA B300 GPUs. Revenue is expected only…
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
SKY47 and ZTE launch 8.5MW Islamabad data centre
Karakoram-01 has launched with 8.5MW of stated total power, but available IT capacity and customer deployments have not been disclosed.
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
CDC files for 144MW Kemps Creek data centre
CDC's 144MW KC1 proposal has entered New South Wales' planning process, but construction and power-delivery dates have not been disclosed.
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
Firmus’s $2bn commitment buys an execution runway, not live AI capacity
Firmus has received full commitments for a USD2 billion equity round at a post-money valuation above USD10.5 billion. That is a powerful financing signal for an Australian AI-infrastructure platform, but its value lies in what happens after subscription: closing, cash receipt…
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
GreenSquare plans 240MW Melbourne data centre
GreenSquare plans a 240MW campus in Spotswood with a 220kV power design, while planning approval and grid capacity remain central to delivery.
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
SK Telecom AIDC revenue nearly doubles in Q2
SK Telecom’s AIDC revenue reached KRW136.2bn in Q2, while SK Hyper must secure sites, build substations and acquire customers for 5GW from 2029.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
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.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom
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.
Asia-Pacific Datacenter
Microsoft opens fourth India cloud region in Hyderabad
Hyderabad gives Azure customers another Indian region for running workloads and disaster recovery, although Microsoft says more services will be added over time.
Asia-Pacific Regional ISP
What AS132722 Reveals About Intellium's Network—and What It Cannot Prove
What AS132722 Reveals About Intellium's Network—and What It Cannot Prove intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure consequences that may…
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
Furukawa’s profit surge reaches the component layer, but its capex plan did not accelerate
Furukawa Electric’s first-quarter results show that data-centre demand is no longer confined to cloud operators and construction contractors: it is reaching optical connectors, specialist fibre, cooling modules and other components. The company lifted its full-year…
Asia-Pacific Cloud Services Trends
Zankore’s 1GW ambition begins with a 200MW delivery test
Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison, Ooredoo Group, Nokia and NVIDIA have launched Zankore by Indosat as an Indonesian AI-infrastructure platform. Its headline is a 1GW deployment target, but the first accountable milestone is narrower: approximately 200MW of AI capacity in the first half…
Asia-Pacific Cloud Services Trends
Microsoft’s largest India cloud region opens behind an early-access boundary
Microsoft has opened its largest data-centre hub in India, but the live Azure service table still labels India South Central as available only to early-access customers. The distinction matters: an operational region with selected users is a real infrastructure milestone, yet it…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
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…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
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…