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Hong Kong's Office of the Communications Authority (OFCA) has opened applications for a planned spectrum auction in the 900-MHz and 1800-MHz bands.

The auction, which is scheduled to take place in December, forms part of the regulator's hybrid approach to reassigning the 200 MHz of spectrum in the two bands that is due to be returned to the regulator shortly.

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Orange Business Services has the lofty ambition of becoming a global player for multicloud services, and in order to reach that goal it announced last week that it was supporting and managing its customers on Amazon Web Services' cloud platform.

Orange Business Services already has a similar deal in place with Microsoft Azure as it presses forward on its growth strategy for the cloud…

Hawaiki Submarine Cable contracted Ciena to upgrade the capacity of its recently launched subsea cable connecting New Zealand and Australia with the west coast of the US.

The company selected Ciena's GoMesh Extreme solution to increase the cable's total capacity by 53% to 67Tbps, up from the design capacity of 43.8Tbps at the time of its launch in July.

The 15,000km Hawaiki…

Thailand's National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) will take its second attempt at auctioning 5 MHz of 900-MHz spectrum during an auction now scheduled for October 20.

The regulator has given prospective bidders until October 8 to submit bid documents for the auction, and plans to name the qualified bidders on October 17, the Bangkok Post reported.

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The UN Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development have moved to accelerate efforts to connect the roughly 50% of the world's population that still do not have access to the internet.

Participants at the commission's annual third quarter meeting, including representatives of UN agencies, governments and the broadband industries, agreed that connecting the “other half” of the world…