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Australia's Telstra has launched a new rapid restoration service to enable near continuous connectivity on its busiest subsea cable routes in Asia.

The new continuous connection service, deployed in collaboration with Ericsson and Ciena, will allow for key routes to be restored within 30 minutes.

Following successful trials in December, the service is now available on three of…

ZTE has announced it has completed the first 5G call using its 5G prototype smartphone during a field trial in Shenzhen.

The trial, conducted in collabration with China Unicom, involved placing a 3GPP Release 15 compliant non-standalone test call using a commercial candidate device.

The trial used ZTE's 5G end-to-end solution, including radio access network, core network,…

One of the benefits of cash payment is the instantaneous nature – provided you have the cash with you at the time. This has been the survival strategy of most small retailers in Malaysia. The arrival of digital wallets or ewallets promised to realize this capability of instant payment minus having to keep cash on hand but it hasn’t been easy because the is no universal wallet that most…

India's Reliance Jio Infocomm has reported a 65% increase in net profit for the three months ending in December as a result of strong growth in subscribers and data usage.

The operator reported a profit for its fiscal third quarter of 8.31 billion rupees ($116.64 million), on the back of a 50.9% increase in operating revenues to 103.83 billion rupees.

Jio's total customer base…

Singtel has opened Singapore's first live 5G facility in conjunction with Ericsson and Singapore Polytechnic.

The facility at Singapore Polytechnic's Dover Road campus, named 5G Garage, is connected to Singapore's pilot 5G network using the 3.5-GHz spectrum allocated by regulator IMDA for 5G trials.

The 5G Garage will serve as a training center, test bed and ideation lab to…