AI & Cloud Asia Pacific Operators February 12, 2025 SKT forecasts flat revenue, AI growth SK Telecom highlighted its significant investment in AI initiatives and the arrangement of major partnerships supported nearly 20 per cent growth in AI-related sales in 2024, but forecasts overall revenue to remain flat this year. By Joseph Waring
Asia Pacific February 11, 2025 Indosat profit grows, capex falls Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison's 2024 financials were boosting by continued ARPU growth and double-digit gains in its multimedia, data communication and internet (MIDI) unit, though marketing costs rose. By Joseph Waring
Asia Pacific February 11, 2025 I Squared targets DigitalBridge SEA asset acquisition Private equity company I Squared reportedly looked to acquire a major portion of DigitalBridge's tower assets in Southeast Asia, after a move to buy the investment company's Singapore-based unit broke down over price differences. By Joseph Waring
Asia Pacific Operators SoftBank February 11, 2025 SoftBank Corp CEO highlights mobile recovery SoftBank Corp recorded profit and sales growth in its fiscal Q3 2024, fuelled by double-digit revenue gains across its non-telecoms units and a turnaround in its mobile business. By Joseph Waring
Asia Pacific RAN Vendors February 10, 2025 NEC claims to cut mobile network build time by 60% Japan-based NEC declared it created a system which analyses the processes required to deploy mobile infrastructure and can reduce the time to install everything from the RAN to the core by about 60 per cent compared with conventional methods. By Joseph Waring
Apple Asia Pacific Devices February 10, 2025 Record iPhone sales propel India into 4th place market for Apple Apple gained market share in India's smartphone segment in 2024 at Samsung's expense, with the iPhone maker moving into the top six and its Korean rival dropping to second, data from IDC showed. By Joseph Waring
Asia Pacific Operators Telstra February 10, 2025 Telstra JV, CommBank make fraud detection gains A Telstra venture working with CommBank developed fraud detection technology that can securely share data about unusual mobile service usage to help protect consumers from identity theft. By Joseph Waring