A leading Vietnamese operator has deployed a distributed antenna system to provide mobile services in Ho Chi Minh City...

The advent of stock exchanges in Laos and Cambodia could be a defining factor for the economic development of the Southeast Asian countries...

Devices supporting China Unicom’s Wophone platform are reportedly ready for launch...

Although the notoriously reclusive country’s telecoms sector lags far behind other emerging markets, North Korea has seen notable growth in ICT over the past year, according to new information from BuddeComm...

A leading Filipino operator has is set to transition its international interconnects from circuit-switched to IP connections...

A new joint venture has been announced by the Japanese operator NTT Docomo and the Chinese search engine provider Baidu...

Subscribers in six Chinese provinces will soon have access to a number of multimedia services, including IP-based voice, video and web services...

Unconnected areas of China will soon be served by an ambitious state of the art fibre optic broadband access network...

Despite its constantly stymied 3G auctions, mobile penetration is high in Thailand, and broadband subscriptions are increasing faster than anticipated...

TD-LTE (4G) trial networks are currently being tested in China by Nokia Siemens Networks for the market leader China Mobile...

Rumours have resurfaced that the Chinese search engine provider Baidu is preparing to launch an Android-based mobile platform...

A mobile number portability trial in China has seen disappointing results, with just 50,000 subscribers switching successfully between operators during the six-month pilot scheme...

Indonesia’s market leading operator has begun the next phase of its transformation programme supporting its Next Generation Network (NGN) Initiative...

A new tuneable MIMO antenna designed for multimode, multiband handsets in LTE deployments has been unveiled by the China Mobile Research Institute in partnership with SkyCross...

Tower-free mobile network coverage is now being provided across Male, the capital city of the Maldives...

Mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) across Asia will soon be able to provide their customers with self-care connectivity settings to surf the web, as well as substantially reducing the number of calls patched through to call centres...

A Chinese operator is launching broadband wireless access services across ten Chinese markets in nine provinces, including Beijing...

The largest cellular provider in Malaysia is facilitating its next-generation infrastructure rollout with a new OSS platform...

The southeast Chinese cities of Xiamen and Nanping will soon enjoy higher quality networks and innovative new services following a managed services agreement between Alcatel-Lucent and Fujian Unicom...

One of Indonesia’s largest operators, PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia, is aiming to reacquire a 35% stake in its mobile operations from the Singaporean operator SingTel...

The first quarter of 2011 saw koryolink – Orascom’s North Korean operations – pass the half-million customer milestone with a year-on-year growth rate of 420%...

Although LTE licences were awarded to seven Vietnamese operators in Q3 2010, five of these operators have thus far made no attempt to launch 4G services...

Cloud-based services are increasingly being adopted by multinational corporations, with firms in the Asia-Pacific region expressing the greatest interest, according to a survey conducted by Ovum...

One of the Philippines’ largest communication service providers is overhauling its provisioning processes with new OSS...

The first call over a trial TD-LTE network deployed in Shanghai has been successfully completed by Alcatel-Lucent and China Mobile...

Thailand’s strong mobile market presents a complex commercial environment, with its mix of state-owned companies and private operators functioning under a wide variety of corporate and regulatory structures and interfaces...

A new spectrum-sharing arrangement is underway in Malaysia, with market leading mobile operator Maxis rolling out LTE using 2.3GHz spectrum licensed to WiMAX provider Asiaspace...

A legal dispute between Chinese equipment giants ZTE and Huawei has begun to escalate following the revelation that ZTE has initiated legal proceedings in a bid to nullify Huawei patents and a Huawei trademark in several countries...

The Malaysian operator DiGi Telecommunications has commissioned Chinese firm ZTE to construct a new unified mobile network that will provide fully transformed 2G, 3G and 4G networks from Q3 2011...

The Chinese city of Suzhou is the site of a new state-of-the-art base station antenna testing facility being opened by CommScope...

Many remote communities across the Solomon Islands will be connected for the first time with a new solar-powered solution...

China Unicom’s subsidiary in Anhui province is gearing up to reduce the energy consumption of its mobile base transceiver station (BTS) sites by as much as 20%...

China Mobile has selected Ericsson to participate in the world's largest TD-LTE trial network deployment to date...