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Asia-Pacific Cloud Services
AS211392: the measurement gap at softbank DREAM CLOUD INNOVATION LIMITED
AS211392: the measurement gap at softbank DREAM CLOUD INNOVATION LIMITED 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 National Telecom
Indus Towers: Control Is Settled, the Cash Is Not
Vodafone Group is out, Bharti Airtel holds about 51%, and shareholders have approved a Rs 14 dividend. But the economics of India's listed tower operator still run through a credit-stressed tenant's payment behaviour, and the accounts show where the mechanism can break.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom
Airtel's FY26: record operating cash flow, a 34% cut in net debt, and a mobile core that barely grew
Bharti Airtel's financial year to March 2026 reads less as a growth story than as a balance-sheet one. Consolidated revenue reached Rs 210,973 crore, up 22.0% year on year, and EBITDA Rs 121,268 crore at a 57.5% margin, 300 basis points higher ([Q4 FY26 press…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom
Vodafone Idea: The Bill Was Rewritten; the Bank's Signature Has Not Arrived
The Indian state has rescheduled most of what Vodafone Idea owes it to the 2030s and written the rest down. The Rs 35,000 crore bank facility meant to pay for the network is still a sanction in prospect, not money in the account. The operating numbers have only just stopped…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom
Optus: two planned changes, one failure path
In November 2023 a scheduled software upgrade on an international peering network preceded the collapse of a national carrier's core. Twenty-one months later, a routine overnight firewall upgrade at a single exchange blocked emergency calls for more than fourteen hours. The…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom
Axiata grew more valuable by owning less of what earns
Axiata Group Berhad reports its best leverage in years and a doubled dividend, but the two operators that now supply most of its upstream cash are one-third stakes shared with a co-controlling partner, and its 2023 Nepal exit still lacked host-regulator recognition in 2026.
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
SOS’s 500MW memorandum needs a 50MW closing table
SOS Limited has put 500MW of ambition, 180MW of tenant interest, at least 60MW of power effort and a 50MW first phase into one announcement. None of those figures has the same legal or operating status. The investable asset begins where the four numbers stop blending.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
U Mobile's three-day 5G site starts a longer continuity test
A portable mast can shorten the wait for first coverage. It cannot shorten every obligation that begins when people rely on it. U Mobile and ZTE have shown how to start one kind of rural site in three days; the market question is how the site behaves through the weeks, weather…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom
Vodafone Idea: A Rescue Booked in Obligations, and a Spectrum Bill That Has Already Restarted
India's largest shareholder in Vodafone Idea holds that stake because the company owed the Indian state money. In April 2025 the Government of India converted about ₹36,950 crore of Vodafone Idea's outstanding spectrum payment dues into equity at a face value of ₹10 a share, with…
Asia-Pacific Datacenter
Huawei brings NPO to 4,096-NPU Atlas 960E
Huawei says its Hi-ONE optical engines cut module count and interconnect power, but production reliability and repair procedures remain unproven outside vendor testing.
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
Bitdeer secured A202’s 65.1MW facility before it secured the customer
Bitdeer’s ten-year Johor data-centre agreement converts a large block of future electrical capacity into a dated operating commitment. It does not yet convert that capacity into cloud revenue—a distinction that matters far more than the headline value of the company’s sales…
Asia-Pacific Datacenter
Equinix’s CN1 plan changed from 850 to 800 first-phase cabinets
The Chennai facility’s 2025 opening disclosure carried a higher investment figure and lower cabinet totals than its 2024 plan. Those changes are measurable; the amount ready for a customer to use is a different question.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom
Optus's 2023 outage: separating penalties from proof of repair
The emergency-call enforcement case shows why restoring connectivity, accounting for affected callers and paying a penalty require different evidence. The 2024 announcements establish historical findings, not a verdict on present compliance.
Asia-Pacific Cloud Services Trends
Tencent Cloud, U Mobile partner on 5G and AI
Tencent Cloud and U Mobile will develop and test enterprise 5G and AI applications in Malaysia through U Mobile's Enterprise Innovation Platform.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom
Hutchison Telecom corporate revenue rises 43%
Local service revenue stayed flat even as 5G penetration reached 64%, leaving corporate services and roaming to provide much of Hutchison Telecom's growth.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom
Optus outage tests emergency-call failover
A 76-minute hardware failure disrupted voice calls and left 46 Triple Zero calls unable to connect. The unanswered question is whether emergency camp-on worked as intended.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom
Huawei sets out 'Nvidia of ICT' ambition
Huawei chairman Guo Ping says the company wants to become the "Nvidia of ICT", putting computing and connectivity at the centre of its AI strategy.
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
Anthropic signs Queensland lease before approvals
Anthropic has committed to the first stage of Zerra DC's Western Downs campus while local planning and foreign-investment approvals remain outstanding.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
Japan's four operators study shared 28GHz infrastructure
KDDI, NTT DOCOMO, SoftBank, and Rakuten Mobile will study shared 28GHz infrastructure while continuing their own deployments.
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
Sharp opens Japan AI-server orders with Foxconn backing
Sharp is pairing Foxconn's hardware supply with local sales and support as it prepares to deliver AI servers to Japanese organisations from fiscal 2027.