Indian state-owned operator Mahanagar Telephone Nigam (MTNL) is apparently sinking further into a financial quagmire. It has reportedly informed India’s stock exchanges that it has defaulted on payments of both principal and interest to a group of public sector banks.
Recently, China Telecom has used 800G/λ and C+L technologies to provide high bandwidth for a distributed cluster with 1024 GPUs in the field-deployed network, achieving distributed training of a 175 billion parameters GPT3 (GPT3-175B) model through 120 km field-deployed G.652 fiber.
The global smartphone market declined by 1% year-on-year in Q2 2025, marking the first quarterly drop in six quarters, according to analyst firm Canalys. The modest fall reflects continued subdued consumer demand across key markets.
Two recent news items from Pakistan highlight the country's attempts to manage two very different but pivotal areas of the modern telecommunications landscape: QoS and satellite internet.
Two recently announced projects in Indonesia and Morocco underline the continuing drive to power data centres in a sustainable manner.
Indonesian tower companies Dayamitra Telekomunikasi (Mitratel) and Tower Bersama are reportedly reviving merger discussions that were abandoned nearly a decade ago, according to a report from Bloomberg.
Vietnam’s three major mobile operators have collectively rolled out 11,000 5G base stations, and the government expects that figure to nearly double by the end of 2025.
China’s UnionPay International, a leading name in payment solutions, has announced that, starting this year, UnionPay cards issued by Vietnamese banks can be linked with Alipay and WeChat Pay, China's leading mobile payment platforms, through a partnership with UnionPay International.
A private Indian aerospace company, Ananth Technologies, which already works with the government in the space domain, has secured authorisation from space regulator Indian National Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre (IN-SPACe) for offering broadband space services from 2028.
Thai operator AIS has teamed up with Samsung and insurance provider Bolttech to launch a new smartphone and tablet protection service aimed at offering comprehensive support for device users.
Indian IT services firm Echelon Edge has announced that it has been entrusted with managing OSS/BSS infrastructure for the first two phases of state-owned operator BSNL’s call detail record (CDR) project across North and East India.
After new power tariffs were put in place on Tuesday, operators of data centres in Malaysia have apparently expressed concerns that they are much higher than were expected.
The governments of Australia and Papua New Guinea (PNG) have held talks on the potential construction of three new subsea cables, aiming to meet the Pacific Island nation’s growing demand for digital connectivity.
The digital economy in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has a new engine now! China Telecom Research Institute and China Telecom Guangdong recently announced that they have made a significant breakthrough in AI DCN — completion of the world's first live-network test of optical-electrical synergy network architecture.
Huawei Cloud has unveiled the latest update of its Chinese-language large language models (LLMs) – Pangu Models 5.5 – with major upgrades across five capabilities that it says will enable transformative applications in industry sectors such as agriculture, manufacturing and scientific research.
Globe Telecom has partnered with Thales and Bridge Alliance to test a new GSMA IoT standard, in a move to future-proof its enterprise services and stay ahead of rivals.
A cross-border payment platform specialising in emerging markets, dLocal, has announced that it has obtained what it calls three pivotal licenses and authorisations in the Middle East and Asia.
Super Apps are gaining traction globally, and while the core concept remains consistent, their implementation and reception vary significantly across diverse regions – although ease of financial management typically underpins the offering. Operators are increasingly evolving their owns solutions into Super App platforms that combine traditional telecom services with financial services, customer support features, and retail layers.
The Internet of Things (IoT) has come a long way in the last decade, and it is set to reach new heights in the next five years as IoT becomes supercharged by 5G-Advanced and artificial intelligence (AI) to usher in a new era of “AIoT” where intelligent connections are ubiquitous.
Zhuang Dan, Executive Director and President of Yangtze Optical Fibre and Cable Joint Stock Limited Company (YOFC), participated in the “AI Innovation and Impact” keynote forum at MWC Shanghai 2025 on June 19.
Mobile services revenue in the Philippines is projected to grow from US$4 billion in 2024 to over US$5 billion by 2029, according to new research from analyst firm GlobalData.
ZTE Corporation has unveiled a full range of frontier innovations under the theme "Catalyzing Intelligent Innovation" at MWC Shanghai 2025. These innovations span AI + networks, AI applications, and AI-powered terminals.
During MWC Shanghai 2025, the F5.5G All-Optical Industry Summit took place with the theme of "10 Gbps Broadband and All-Optical Premium Transmission for a Win-Win AI Era."
During MWC Shanghai 2025, Bob Chen, President of Huawei's Optical Business Product Line, delivered a keynote speech at the F5.5G All-Optical Industry Summit to share Huawei's continuous innovation in F5.5G all-optical networks from four dimensions.
Indian operator Vodafone Idea and AST SpaceMobile, which is building a space-based cellular broadband network accessible directly by everyday smartphones, have announced a strategic partnership to expand mobile connectivity across India’s unconnected regions.
Ericsson has announced that Grameenphone, a leading mobile operator in Bangladesh with over 84.8 million subscribers, has become the first communication service provider (CSP) to use the new Ericsson and AWS Gen-AI Lab to create an agentic AI-powered OSS/BSS solution.
At Digital Transformation World in Copenhagen this year, there were many cheerleaders for AI - and chief among them was Anton Bonifacio (pictured), who holds the unique dual role of Chief AI Officer and Chief Information Security Officer at Globe Telecom.
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) is apparently capping connectivity costs for public Wi-Fi providers in what is widely seen as an effort to boost internet accessibility, but one that has not been well received by the companies whose infrastructure is helping to enable public Wi-Fi.
Telecom chief executives have urged the industry to truly embrace artificial intelligence in order to seize the opportunities it presents, or risk being left behind in the race for progress.
To meet the high security requirements for user data in foundation model training, China Mobile Research Institute recently proposed a new remote storage and computing architecture based on Hitless Intelligent Computing-OTN (HIC-OTN).
Indian operator Bharti Airtel has awarded technology giant Ericsson a multi-year network operations centre (NOC) managed services (MS) contract.
In the latest example of alliances aimed at supporting India’s local industries, Tata Electronics and Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to advance the development of indigenous electronics and semiconductor solutions.
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