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The Asia Pacific telecommunications sector is experiencing incredibly fast growth, enabled primarily by investments in the network and IT infrastructure that supports mobile internet activity. The World Economic Forum in collaboration with Accenture has estimated that globally, digitization could contribute approximately $100 trillion in value to the telco industry over the next decade.

Synergy Research Group (SRG) revealed that across six key enterprise infrastructure segments – data center servers, switches and routers, collaboration: hosted and cloud, collaboration: on-prem, network security, WLAN – vendor revenues from Q4 2017 to Q3 2018 have increased by almost 13% on an annualized basis, as aggregate revenues for the last four quarters reached $125 billion.

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India's Bharti Airtel has become the first operator to deploy LTE services on the archipelago of Andaman and Nicobar.

The deployment, which forms part of Airtel's Project Leap network transformation program, has initially been concentrated on Port Blair. The network will be gradually expanded to other parts of the islands.

Airtel is offering customers the ability to upgrade to…

Interconnection and data center company Equinix has revealed plans to expand its global presence to South Korea via the opening of a new data center in Seoul.

The carrier-neutral SL1 data center will provide interconnection and colocation services to local and multinational businesses with a presence in the market to support their cloud migration and digital transformation initiatives…

Samsung Electronics and KDDI are wasting no time adapting 5G to trains in Japan. The two have completed a test using 28 GHz to transmit 4K ultrahigh-definition (UHD) surveillance video on a train platform in Tokyo.

The demonstration was conducted between Nov. 21 and Dec. 21 at the Haneda Airport International Terminal in Ota, Tokyo. Along with Waseda University, Keihin Corporation and…