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Vietnam's Ministry of Communications has awarded the nation's first 5G trial license to military-run operator Viettel.

The ministry has awarded a license that will allow Viettel to operate trial 5G services in both Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam News Agency reported.

Viettel plans to conduct technical trials and evaluate the ability to deploy 5G infrastructure in the…

The consortium behind the upcoming INDIGO subsea cable system have announced the completion of the installation of the INDIGO West and INDIGO Central cables.

Commissioning of the 9,000km INDIGO cable system, which will connect Singapore and Indonesia with Australia, has now begun and the system is on track to be ready for service before the middle of the year.

The two-fiber…

5G is touted as the revolutionary leap forward in mobile connectivity.

More than another "G", the new technology can create vertical-specific applications for vertical industries while forming the foundation for new ones such as smart cities, autonomous vehicles, smart manufacturing and more.

A recent TalkTech panel luncheon, organized by Telecom Asia and hosted by Oracle…

Developments in technologies such as connectivity, digital services, augmented/virtual reality (AR/VR), big data and artificial intelligence are revolutionizing the way consumers interact and the way enterprises compete.

New services such as mobile payments and eCommerce have the potential to transform the payments and retail industry, reducing (eventually removing) cash and re-…

The LoRa Alliance, the industry association behind the open LoRaWAN low-power wide-area network protocol for IoT, has announced that it has signed on more than 100 network operators in nearly as many countries around the world.

The alliance said it has experienced “explosive growth” in 2018, with the number of end-devices connected to LoRaWAN networks being tripled since the beginning…