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AI-generated editorial illustration showing US and Indian flags above a subsea cable, repair vessel and network map representing bilateral cable-security cooperation

Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends

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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Asia-Pacific Cloud Services Trends

F5 confirms its Seoul edge is live

The new location extends a shared application-security platform. Buyers still need to distinguish a pooled request count from the rest of the service bill.

An amber glass canopy covers part of a row of miniature server-like objects, with unmarked brass discs nearby.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends

NEXTDC's cash hedge does not cancel dilution

The data-centre developer is spending A$93.61 million on capped calls alongside its convertible notes. The protection is economic; the distinction matters for both construction cash and future ownership.

AI-generated editorial illustration of a submarine cable landing in Batam, with a cable ship, offshore buoy, shore crew and nearby digital infrastructure

Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends

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.

AI-generated editorial illustration of NICT time infrastructure and NTP servers in Japan, representing an incident involving incorrect public timestamps

Asia-Pacific Institutional

NICT reports incorrect timestamps from public time servers

NICT says part of its public time service sent incorrect timestamps for 11 minutes, putting the focus on whether connected systems accepted the wrong time.

Editorial illustration of Optus technicians working on telecom equipment in Sydney, representing network recovery and resilience after an emergency-call disruption

Asia-Pacific National Telecom

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.

AI-generated editorial illustration of the planned Vietnam-Thailand-Singapore submarine cable linking Vietnam, Thailand and Singapore across Southeast Asia.

Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends

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.

AI-generated editorial illustration of a Bangkok data centre with diesel fuel tanks, drainage infrastructure and nearby high-rise buildings.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends

Bangkok diesel case prompts data-centre permit review

Officials found more than 200,000 litres of unlicensed diesel at a Bangkok data centre, bringing backup power, drainage and urban siting under closer review.

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Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends

GMO picks Ishikari for GPU cloud expansion

GMO Internet has chosen Ishikari Bay New Port for a new GPU cloud site, where power, network access and other infrastructure are still being worked out.

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Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends

China ties computing growth to power and fibre

China is tying computing expansion to power and fibre planning, making coordinated delivery central to new projects.

AI-generated illustration of an Optus network outage affecting an emergency call in Australia

Asia-Pacific National Telecom

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.

AI-generated editorial illustration of a large data-centre campus in Batam, Indonesia, connected to substations and transmission infrastructure beside the coast.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends

Indonesia’s AI data-centre boom tests power delivery

Indonesia has power and a large digital market, but AI data centres still need dependable grid capacity and sites where that electricity can be delivered.

AI-generated illustration of coal trains and trucks supplying an Indian coal-fired power station

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends

India flags 59 coal plants with critically low stocks

India’s low coal stocks at power plants show why data-centre operators must look beyond national inventories to fuel delivery.

AI-generated illustration of South Korean semiconductor manufacturing, silicon wafers and chip exports through a container port

Asia-Pacific Institutional Trends

South Korea chip exports jump 270% in early September

South Korea’s chip exports surged 270% in early September, lifting semiconductors to nearly half of total export value.

AI-generated illustration of Micron employees entering a semiconductor facility in Taiwan beside a silicon wafer

Asia-Pacific Institutional Trends

Micron offers Taiwan staff rewards as union talks continue

Micron announced new Taiwan staff rewards while union talks remained unresolved, with no confirmed production or delivery disruption.

AI-generated illustration of Enflame’s Shanghai STAR Market listing with an AI-chip wafer and Shanghai skyline

Asia-Pacific Cloud Services Trends

Enflame lists in Shanghai to fund new AI chips

Enflame's IPO will fund two new chip generations and software development, but customer readiness still has to be proven.

AI-generated illustration of an Australian data-centre development beside electricity infrastructure and water systems, representing proposed federal power and water rules.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends

Approved Australian data centres may fall outside new rules

ABC found 25 approved but unbuilt projects that may not be covered by proposed federal power and water rules, leaving existing approval conditions to matter.

A blank bronze valuation block passes through a weighted balance, dividing gear and post-closing return chamber to become a variable stack of blue share plates.

Asia-Pacific Institutional Trends

ARC–Firstborn’s $1 Billion Price Is a Floating Share Count

Firstborn Top Capital’s sellers cannot know their final ARC share count from the transaction announcement, and they may not know it at closing. The contract first adjusts a US$1 billion base for debt, working capital and unpaid deal compensation, then divides the result by the…

Two different unbranded radio enclosures connect to a central modular processing shelf in a fictional Japanese telecom integration workshop.

Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends

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.

Two separate optical-network racks and an uninstalled patch panel in a fictional workshop, illustrating hypothetical fibre-network integration.

Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends

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.