MediaTek became the second chipset company after Qualcomm to support millimeter wave (mmWave) 5G with its new Dimensity 1050. #pressrelease

Ribbon's cloud-based SBCs combine with Colt's voice and data networks to deliver enterprises a complete, secure Microsoft Teams communications experience. #pressrelease

Viettel in Vietnam said it will work with Qualcomm on a 5G Radio Unit (RU) with massive MIMO capabilities running open RAN specifications. #pressrelease

AAE-1's submarine upgrade will more than double the current capacity, providing in excess of 100 Tb/s, resulting in the largest-scale submarine upgrade in history. #pressrelease

With partner Lendlease, SoftBank said its subsidiary HAPSMobile is exploring an expansion into Australia. #pressrelease

The multimillion-dollar expansion in Hsinchu City, Taiwan, is expected to come online in July 2022. #pressrelease

'We continue to work with health and government authorities on the delivery of the next safe and successful MWC Shanghai,' the association said. #pressrelease

Foxconn's Hon Hai announced it purchased arQana's wireless business in order to merge it with its AchernarTek operation 'to enable the birth of a global RF semiconductor component supplier.'

Intel said it would suspend its operations in Russia due to that country's invasion of Ukraine, which Intel said would affect the 1,200 people it employs in Russia.

Rakuten Symphony said it would offer F5's new BIG-IP Next Cloud Native Network Functions (CNFs) through its marketplace.

Airties extends support to Telstra's Wi-Fi 6 modem and 'SmartFix' capabilities.

Nokia's core will be a part of the Rakuten Symphony platform, the companies announced.

KDDI in Japan said it worked with Samsung and Fujitsu to deploy a commercial 5G standalone open RAN cell site.

Partnerships with D-VoiS and PT Link Net expands Minim's Wi-Fi tech presence in the Asia Pacific region.

Resulting work will support Viasat's developing ViaSat-3 satellite constellation, which will provide global broadband coverage.

Partnership with CJ ENM will see Paramount+ bundled with TVING, CJ ENM's streaming service, in South Korea in 2022. Deal also sets the table for more content distribution in the region.

Shortly after its launch, three Chinese operators have already deployed Huawei MetaAAU in Beijing, Hangzhou, Shanghai and Xiamen.

Device has access to more than 50,000 hours of content, with no cable or satellite installation required.

Colt Technology Services is providing connectivity for Wasabi Technologies' new data center in Japan - the company's first data center in the APAC region.

Parasat, an operator based in the Philippines, is transitioning away from legacy remote MACPHY using Harmonic's CableOS platform.

New multi-year agreement expands CSG's work with the Malaysian telco.

Jim Vinh is an exec late of IBM, Nagra and SeaChange.

SoftBank and OneWeb said they would work together on satellite communications, including building ground stations in Japan for OneWeb's low Earth orbit satellite operations.

SiFotonics said its 8x100G ER1 nWDM QSFP28 optical transceivers can enable up to 8x100G on a single pair of fiber, or 4x100G on single fiber over extended distances.

Japan-based cable operator deploys CommScope's 'XE4202'10G-EPON remote OLT fiber node module to support both residential and business customers.

Offering aimed at creating new value for every player across the industry value chain.

Hosts expert panel webinar to lay down the legal, technical and business implications of growing changes and stricter enforcement in data protection laws.

Offers up to two years of Disney+ via offers for new and existing customers when premium streaming service launches February 23.

Ground station at the Pivotel teleport in New South Wales, Australia will support SES's next-gen satellite broadband constellation, O3b mPOWER.

Cable TV and broadband provider will use Promplink's NoiseHawk to get a fix on network noise and network maintenance impairments.

CommScope services unit will help StackPath upgrade its server capacity and network hardware in a dozen data center sites.

China Telecom and Huawei jointly piloted the first 5G indoor distributed Massive MIMO.

Business customers can either use KDDI's existing network or they can develop their own 5G network.

New research from leading analyst firm Omdia has again ranked South Korea as the leading country for 5G deployment.

Samsung and operator KDDI said they successfully demonstrated network slicing with a RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC).

Huawei and China Telecom Sichuan jointly launched what they claim is the world's first trial of the HDSS offering in Sichuan, China.

The nationwide network upgrade by Juniper Networks is slated to be completed by the end of 2020.

ZTE and True Corporation announce collaboration to build a commercial 5G network in Thailand.

Cables delivered to Jiangxi Province to restore flood-control communications system.

MTS, Motorola, Qualcomm said the new motorola edge+ smartphone for the Russian market will support 5G transmissions in millimeter wave (mmWave) spectrum, expanding such offerings outside of the US.

They say agreements are already in place with ten cable operators that will roll out Plume's platform in 2020.

An 8MWh energy storage project contracted by Jiangsu Hengtong Energy Storage Technology succeeded in reverse power transmission and was successfully connected to the grid on the first attempt.

Toyota said it will work with Nokia and others to test 4G and 5G private wireless networks at its manufacturing design center in Fukuoka, Japan.

New chip solution from Samsung, set for release in Q3 2020, will expand security capabilities for mobile devices and IoT applications.

ZTE and China Unicom have announced an agreement to jointly explore the prospect and technical trends of 6G.

ZTE and China Unicom have partnered to implement SuperDSS, the industry's first Tri-RAT dynamic spectrum sharing solution.

Spirent announced China Telecom used its equipment to test standalone 5G technology.

China Mobile extends 5G RAN partnership with Ericsson as it seeks to further roll out 5G services across the country.

The event will now take place as ITU Digital World 2021 in September 2021 in the same venue in Ha Noi, Vietnam.

The collaboration aims to enable telcos to more effectively deploy virtual network functions (VNFs) on the Red Hat OpenStack platform.

ZTE has won the bid of 12 provinces in six regions for the public-oriented network, as well as 35% of shares in 31 Chinese provinces for the industry-oriented network.

ZTE Corporation has helped the Zhejiang branch of China Mobile send China's first 5G message based on GSMA UP2.4 standard.

ZTE Corporation announced that it has won the second-largest share in China Unicom's 2020 intelligent MAN (5G Transport) centralized procurement.

The western network, covering 19 provinces of China, will be the world's largest commercial optical transport network (OTN), with a total link length reaching 53,828km.

NTT East is launching new Managed SD-WAN services under its VPN portfolio for enterprises using Cisco SD-WAN powered by Viptela.

South Korean operator will use Nokia's Network Service Platform (NSP) to enable software-defined, automated IP network management processes.

Taiwan's national operator splits the spoils between the giant European vendors.

The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment claims Aus Media Streaming was a piracy outfit selling IPTV set-tops and subscriptions.

Rakuten and Vodafone have become the lead investors in AST & Science, which is planning a satellite network that can connect directly to 4G, and ultimately 5G, smartphones.

Cable modem maker said Q4 sales rose 41.5% to $10.6 million.

Project uses Huawei's OptiXtrans solution to enable full-mesh services and one-hop transmission, reducing network latency.

Rakuten Mobile in Japan selected Nokia to manage its virtualized core network.

Following the acquisition of the majority of IHS Markit's technology business, Informa Tech has launched Omdia, a new research firm that combines the analyst teams from Ovum, the IHS Markit technology business acquired in 2019, Tractica and more.

SoftBank Corp. will offer enterprises a Session Smart, managed SD-WAN.

Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) has upgraded its optical transport network with 200G 8 Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) technology from Nokia.

Huawei's Consumer Business Group claims to have shipped 6.9 million 5G smartphones as of December 2019.

Telstra will provide on-demand access to more than 170 cloud service providers in 38 global markets via Equinix Cloud Exchange Fabric.

Phase 1 resolution a 'big step' but market uncertainty remains until there's a permanent tariff removal, Consumer Technology Association's Gary Shapiro says.

Cujo AI is using Aviatrix's software across a global cloud network spanning AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform.

Chinese vendor says it has landed a deal covering 12 provinces in total, including six for the delivery of virtualized control plane functionality to China Mobile.

Japanese operator and edge computing software specialist will jointly conduct a proof of concept to show how multi-access edge computing can be used to deliver 5G applications globally.

The call was performed in compliance with 3GPP Release 15 specs over the 2.5GHz spectrum band using ZTE's 5G NR basestation and a 5G smartphone form factor test device powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 5G Modem-RF System.

Says its Fire TV edition now powers more than 50 smart TVs and soundbar models spanning more than 10 countries.

Spectrum in the 700MHz and 3.5GHz bands could be allocated to a single entity comprising a consortium formed by multiple licensees, instead of individual licensees.

South Korean operator heads to CES to show off media technologies and services such as 5G-8K TV, Callar for Sero TV (AR video call), 5GX Multiview, Jump AR Aquaworld (Interactive cinematic AR), Watch & Play (Interactive game platform), and ATSC 3.0 Multiview.

Says guide will help global and regional streaming services bridge OTT and broadcast content.

Adoption opens door to worldwide deployments, ATSC says.

Vodafone Hutchison Australia has selected Nokia as a supplier for its 5G network rollout.

SVoD service, created by Discovery founder John Hendricks launched in 2015, has also struck a deal with Millicom for launches in nine Latin American countries.

Distributed disaggregated routing specialist DriveNets has struck partnerships with Broadcom, UfiSpace, Edgecore and Delta.

Malaysian MVNO redONE is deploying MDS Global's VNOnDemand BSS-as-a-Service solution to aid its expansion in South-East Asia.

Following its acquisition of Sigma Systems earlier in the year, Hansen Technologies has appointed Simon Muderack, formerly Sigma's chief commercial officer, as the CEO of its communications division.

AWS Wavelength enables applications with single-digit millisecond latencies to mobile devices and users by deploying AWS compute and storage at the edge of the 5G network.

More than 600 industry experts and leaders attended.

Premium video service goes direct-to-consumer in five countries, with plans to add more to the mix in 2020.

AIOps Catalyst explores AI business value in communications service providers' operations by developing multiple AI-based use cases within IT and network processes.

Chinese vendor forces with Thai operators to complete scaled commercial adoption of the FDD dual-band Massive MIMO solution in Bangkok.

That equates to about one in 20 people, according to company's latest 'Gigabit Monitor.'

Nokia and Hitachi Kokusai Electric have teamed up to bring private 4G/LTE and 5G network capabilities to enterprises in Japan.

In its second annual Cloud Performance Benchmark, the Internet performance measurement firm tracked the cloud providers' reliance on the public Internet, ability to cross the Great Firewall of China, predictable performance, and other metrics.

Hengtong attended the PT Expo China 2019 with 5G intelligent applications, big data and security, energy Internet, industrial Internet, 5G carrier network, 5G high-speed transmission, 5G IoT and security and new 5G technology and products.

Deal with Japan-based service provider for Plume's whole-home WiFi hardware and mesh software is vendor's first in Asia.

Pilot will involve series of verification tests at Mondragon University in Spain.

The two-part proposal, centered on the use of Universal Service Funds, to be voted upon at FCC's November 19 meeting.

Bypassing setup and connection complexities, Teridion extends global SD-WAN service to multinational enterprise locations in China while requiring only standard broadband connections.

Programmer will use Synamedia's virtualized Digital Content Manager to shift to cloud encoding in the region.

KDDI is using a range of Cisco products to get its network ready for 5G; Telenor is building out a 5G non-standalone (NSA) network on the path to fully fledged 5G, and Telefonica is deploying Cisco's intent-based networking technologies.

The two companies will work together to research and develop 5G applications for both the private and business sectors.

Sequans' Monarch SiP and GM01Q module for LTE-M and NB-IoT networks now certified by Japan's three largest mobile operators.

You.i TV on board to beef up the advertising and user experience for the broadcaster's 10 Play VoD platform.