Author: Joseph Waring

SK Telecom (SKT) and Nokia agreed to work on fibre sensing, a wired network technology that employs AI to monitor the environment around optical cables, with the goal of a nationwide deployment in South Korea this year.

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China Mobile forecast uptake of 5G users to slow in H2 after adding 49 million network customers in the first half, taking its total to 514 million.

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Rakuten Mobile highlighted accelerated subscriber uptake in Q2 as the catalyst to topline growth and continued reductions in its operating losses, which narrowed by JPY19.4 billion ($131.9 million) year-on-year.

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The three mobile players in South Korea registered double-digit gains in 5G users in Q2, but offered few additional bright spots across their mobile operations, with weak service revenue growth and ARPU broadly flat.

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Singapore-based Singtel unveiled what it claimed is the first quantum-safe network in Southeast Asia, offering enterprise clients a customised programme to trial the technology before adoption.

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SoftBank Group booked a narrower loss in its fiscal Q1 2024, impacted by a weaker yen and Vision Fund asset losses offsetting gains at chip design unit Arm.

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Rakuten Mobile lined up long-term funding of between JPY150 billion ($1 billion) and JPY300 billion through the sale and leaseback of a part of its network to a consortium of global infrastructure investors.

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NTT Docomo increased marketing outlay in fiscal Q1 2024 (calendar Q2) to target younger customers, a segment where it has traditionally been weak, with much of the spending allocated to discounts on handsets.

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SK Hynix will gear up its high-bandwidth memory capacity to keep up with surging demand, allocating 80 per cent of its KRW103 trillion capex over the next five years to the high-end chips, Bloomberg reported.

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Bharti Airtel's data centre unit Nxtra joined the global RE100 initiative, the first data centre provider in India to become a member of the organisation committed to sourcing 100 per cent renewable electricity.

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