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New Zealand's Spark has reported a 2.7% decrease in operating profit to NZ$989 million ($660.5 million) for the financial year ending in June as the operator only partly offset declines in legacy telecoms revenues.

The operator reported revenue growth for the year of 1% to NZ$3.65 billion, with mobile revenue growing 6.9% and cloud, security and service revenue management up 15.9%.…

Huawei has confirmed that the company and fellow Chinese equipment vendor ZTE have been banned from providing technology for Australia's 5G rollouts.

In a tweet, Huawei said it has been informed of the ban by the Australian government.

“This is an extremely disappointing result for consumers. Huawei is a world leader in 5G. Has safely & securely delivered wireless…

SmarTone

SmarTone is entering Hong Kong’s lucrative e-commerce in a big way.

“Together with the rising popularity of mobile payment, there has never been a better time for us to bring the online business to the next level,” said William Chan (pictured), general manager, digital & e-commerce, SmarTone. 

SmarTone sees seamless…

Project Remedy (Optus)

Optus had a customer experience concern. It wanted to keep its fixed unbundled local loop (ULL) network users tethered when mass service disruptions (MSDs) occurred. With a limited number of technicians are available and a short timeframe to fix resulting faults, the company looked for a better way.

The answer:…

The Philippines' Globe Telecom, through its enterprise ICT division Globe Business, has collaborated with the nation's Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) to launch the 1-DTI consumer hotline.

The new hotline will provide a connection of Philippines consumers to make complaints, access policy advisory services, and make inquiries with the department.

Globe will offer its…