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Two mobile network paths converge beneath a separate customer-service layer against the Singapore skyline.

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…

Aug 6, 2026
An unbranded smartphone under open sky connects toward a small satellite while a separate balloon communications trial sits over rural coastal Japan.

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…

Aug 6, 2026
Train approaching through a concrete tunnel fitted with radio equipment, with blue signal graphics and a TunnelStar news headline

Asia-Pacific National Telecom

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.

Aug 6, 2026
5G radio equipment overlooking Kuala Lumpur with an editorial panel describing MBSB’s RM400 million facility for Huawei’s U Mobile supply work

Asia-Pacific National Telecom

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.

Aug 6, 2026
A high-density optical-fibre cable cross-section and cable reel sit on an anonymous manufacturing line beside unbranded shipping crates.

Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends

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…

Aug 6, 2026
Telecom tower overlooking a mountainous Tajikistan city, with an editorial panel showing 4G site upgrades and a 100Gbps fibre ring

Asia-Pacific National Telecom

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.

Aug 6, 2026
Network operations desk with a management dashboard, API code and a multi-site network diagram displayed across several screens

Asia-Pacific Cloud Services

Edgecore launches ecCLOUD MSP Integration API

Edgecore’s ecCLOUD MSP Integration API connects MSP systems to network data, but production deployments and operating limits remain undisclosed.

Aug 6, 2026
Two business executives walking beside a coastal network facility with cable infrastructure and server equipment

Asia-Pacific National Telecom

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.

Aug 6, 2026
Editorial illustration of a modular cable landing station beside a tropical coastline, with workers and a cable-laying vessel offshore

Asia-Pacific Datacenter

DXN wins AU$1.2m Solomon Islands landing-station contract

DXN will deliver a modular landing station by April 2027 for the planned ACS-1 cable, but the wider system is not yet operational.

Aug 5, 2026
Editorial illustration of a Visionbay.ai data hall containing Nvidia HGX B300 systems and liquid-cooled AI infrastructure

Asia-Pacific Datacenter

Visionbay.ai launches 5MW Nvidia AI cluster in Taiwan

Foxconn says the cluster is commercially available and more than 90% utilised, but has not explained how that figure is calculated.

Aug 5, 2026
Editorial graphic showing an LG Uplus-branded AI data-centre campus under construction in Paju, South Korea.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends

LG Uplus adds $896m to Paju AI data centre

LG Uplus is adding fresh capital to its Paju project as construction advances on the first building of the planned 200MW campus.

Aug 5, 2026
A communications satellite carries a fully unfolded gold mesh perimeter-truss reflector above the Asia-Pacific side of Earth.

Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends

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…

Aug 4, 2026
Three planned data-centre construction sites sit within an Indonesian tropical landscape, linked by power corridors and transparent architectural outlines.

Asia-Pacific Cloud Services Trends

CoreWeave’s 360MW Indonesia plan is a capacity promise with a 2028 test

CoreWeave has chosen Indonesia for its first announced data-centre presence in Asia-Pacific: three facilities carrying 360MW of contracted IT power and an expected 2028 start. The number is strategically large, but its state is equally important. It is not active capacity, and…

Aug 4, 2026
A large strategic telecom ownership structure remains anchored while only a small peripheral segment is separated for assessment under a disclosure light.

Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends

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…

Aug 4, 2026
A circular security operations floor connects identity, cloud and network controls to a newly integrated human-led detection-and-response core.

Asia-Pacific Cloud Services Trends

LG Uplus buys an MDR operating loop—but leaves the ownership perimeter undisclosed

LG Uplus announced on 4 August that it had acquired PAGO Networks, a managed detection and response company whose DeepACT platform joins technology with round-the-clock analyst operations. The strategic shift is from selling security components toward controlling detection…

Aug 4, 2026
Editorial illustration of three infrastructure teams reviewing a tabletop model for a prospective Southeast Asian AI data-centre partnership.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends

SoftBank unit's Southeast Asia AI data-centre pact allocates roles, not capital

SB Telecom Singapore, SC ZEUS Data Centers and Robust HPC Group have divided the work needed to pursue AI data centres across Southeast Asia. The memorandum creates a development chain, but names no site, megawatts, power supply, customer, capital budget or delivery date.

Aug 3, 2026
Editorial illustration of inspection teams working inside two intact semiconductor fabrication plants in Kumamoto before a staged restart.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends

Mitsubishi's August target does not yet restore its quake-hit chip output

Mitsubishi Electric says two semiconductor factories halted after the Kumamoto earthquake should move back to normal operations during August. The timetable narrows the disruption, but it does not disclose current output, lost production or when customers will again receive…

Aug 3, 2026
Blank smartphones send data through layered control boundaries toward an external server beside a Japanese regulatory review desk.

Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends

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…

Jul 31, 2026
Tokyo radio sites connect to a centralised baseband room where compact new compute shelves sit beside older equipment.

Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends

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…

Jul 31, 2026
An operating data-centre block stands beside several unfinished halls, cranes, a substation and power conduits at the Paju construction site.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends

LG Uplus has funded a 200MW destination, not switched it on

LG’s additional KRW1.3tn commitment changes the financial scale of the Paju AI data-centre project. It does not change the physical state of the campus overnight. LG Uplus said in June that construction was about 20% complete and that a 200MW power supply had been secured; the…

Jul 31, 2026