Nokia announced on Tuesday that that it has signed a contract agreement with Malaysian ISP Extreme Broadband (EBB) and its wholly owned subsidiary Open DC to upgrade Open DC’s AI data centres to improve security and network performance.
PLDT announced on Tuesday it has deployed free-space optics technology from Google Taara in three remote locations in the Philippines as an alternative to terrestrial and subsea fibre optic cables.
5G finally arrived in Bangladesh on Monday after telcos Robi Axiata and Grameenphone reportedly launched 5G services within a few hours of each other, and 18 months after receiving licences to streamline 5G rollouts.
The government of Chad late last week ordered mobile operators Airtel and Moov Africa to connect to its national fibre-optic backbone within seven days or face potential sanctions, after the Telecommunications Minister Boukar Michel met executives from both operators on Wednesday.
Two of Africa’s biggest operators – Vodacom and MTN – have, coincidentally, announced technology deployment firsts for the continent in the past few days – one involving MIMO, the other involving 5-band RRU commercial deployment.
Thai operator True Corporation has partnered with China Mobile International, T3 Technology and Tuya Smart to enhance its smart-home platform TrueX, aiming to migrate more than 3 million Thai users from Tuya’s ecosystem.
Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE), the Costa Rican government-run electricity and telecommunications services provider, has announced that it will boost its current international capacity 23-fold through the integration of the Trans Americas Fiber Systems submarine cable TAM-1.
The past two years have seen an explosion in Generative AI. The ubiquitous technology has had a huge impact on customer service, but it also has a major shortcoming – it is predominantly reactive. While GenAI can respond to prompts, it is unable to take an independent action – to ‘take initiative’ by anticipating a customer’s needs, making a decision, and then interacting meaningfully with its systems to pursue a desired outcome.
Telkom Indonesia revealed over the weekend that it has launched an AI Centre of Excellence (CoE) supported by its digital services arm Telkom Solution that it describes as a “national AI ecosystem enabler.”
Djibouti Telecom has announced plans to extend the regional subsea cable, Djibouti Africa Regional Express 1 (DARE1), southward along Africa’s east coast to broaden reach and enhance route diversity.