5G subscription growth to drive APAC mobile services market

Mobile data services will remain the largest revenue contributing segment. The total mobile communications services revenue in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region is expected to grow at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.4 per cent from $US320.9bn in 2021 to $US398.4bn in 2026, mainly driven by the mobile data…

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Hankook & Company hires Seongjin Kim as Chief Digital Officer

Bringing his deep expertise in the digital field. Hankook & Company Co. announced the appointment of Seongjin Kim as Chief Digital Officer (CDO) effective immediately. Seongjin Kim will be responsible for further accelerating digital transformation of the group. As head of Digital Strategy Department, he will establish an innovation model…

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Forecast spend for future of work technologies could hit  US$656B

How people work is evolving, enabled by technologies and accelerated by COVID-19. Future of Work (FoW) is a fundamental shift in the work model to one that fosters human-machine collaboration, enables new skills and worker experiences, and supports a work environment un-bounded by time or physical space. A new forecast…

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Australia will lead Asia-Pacific mobile communication growth

Followed by India with mobile revenue CAGR of 10.1 per cent over the forecast period. Australia will witness one of the fastest compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 15.4 per cent in terms of mobile service revenues in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region between 2020 and 2025, according to analytics company…

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Optus suffers mobile network outage in Australian states

Mobile call, text and data services affect telco provider’s business and residential customers. Singtel’s Australian telecommunication service provider, Optus has suffered a mobile outage on the 18th of February, with customers experiencing intermittent disruptions to their mobile call, text and data services. According to the telecommunication provider its technical teams…

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Vietnam to integrate 4G into terrestrial mobile communication terminal devices

Government assess the impacts of a draft circular on national technical regulations on terminal devices. Vietnam will issue new technical regulations for terminal devices of terrestrial mobile communication, which will include integrating 4G into such devices. The Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) last week held a webinar to assess the…

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OCBC Bank enables use of SingPass to access digital banking services

Customers can login using their SingPass via the mobile app. OCBC Bank’s 1.8 million digital customers will now be able to use the SingPass Mobile app as an alternative login to access the full suite of digital banking services via the OCBC Mobile Banking app or Internet banking. Using SingPass…

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Mobile alliance agrees to eSIM network changes in China and Singapore

Alliance covers 34 countries in Asia Pacific, Middle East, and Africa. Mobile alliance covering 34 countries in Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa, Bridge Alliance, will collaborate with China Unicom and Singtel to enable enterprise customers of both companies to perform embedded SIM (eSIM) changes over-the-air (OTA). This will allow…

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