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A consortium comprising Chunghwa Telecom (CHT), SK Broadband (SKB), SoftBank, and Verizon - the E2A Consortium - have announced a project to build a new transpacific submarine cable system, E2A, that will connect Japan, Taiwan, South Korea and the US.

Rimini Street employees in Israel, Japan, Korea, Singapore, UK and USA celebrate the company’s commitment to an extraordinary workplace culture of fairness and togetherness

COMPANY NEWS: Rimini Street, a global provider of end-to-end enterprise software support and innovation solutions, and the leading third-party support provider for Oracle, SAP and VMware software, today announced it has been honoured with multiple consecutive Great Place to Work® certifications in Israel, Japan, Singapore, UK and USA, and Best Workplaces™ Korea’s Most Respected CEO award for Seth Ravin, CEO of Rimini Street.

South Korean telecoms provider KT has announced a partnership with local aerospace and defence firm LIG Nex1 to develop propriety technologies for homegrown low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites.

Korean standards certification group the Telecommunications Technology Association (TTA) and interoperability standards organisation O-RAN Alliance have signed a cooperation agreement that enables the adoption of O-RAN Alliance specifications to TTA standards.

Korean electronics giant Samsung has been selected by Japanese telecoms operator KDDI to provide 4G and 5G O-RAN compliant virtualised Radio Access Network (vRAN) solutions for its Open RAN deployment in Japan.

Dicker Data Australia has been named Distributor of the Year for the Australia-New Zealand (ANZ) region by cybersecurity provider SonicWall.

GUEST RESEARCH: Informatica, an enterprise cloud data management leader, released the findings of its annual survey of global data leaders – CDO Insights 2024: Charting a Course to AI Readiness.

The Australian Communications and Media Authority has entered into a renewed memorandum of understanding (MOU) as part of the global network organisation UCENet, joining Korea, Canada, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and New Zealand to engage in the fight against scams, unsolicited telemarketing, and spam following an agreement between international regulators.

COMPANY NEWS:  SonicWall, a global leader delivering Boundless Cybersecurity, today announced the Asia-Pacific and Japan (APJ) regional winners for the SonicWall Partner Awards for the fiscal year 2022. The award honours SonicWall’s top-performing distributors and partners that have made outstanding contributions to drive the company’s most successful year yet.

Voice platform provider SecureCo has partnered with IBM to offer businesses a cloud-native voice platform that aims to enable "world-class" customer experiences.

Although the Olympics in host city Tokyo had no spectators, this did not dampen the mood of the historic event: digital cheers and engagement poured in for athletes around the world were at an all time high, double the number of users during Rio 2016.

Chinese PC manufacturer Lenovo has appointed Amar Babu to lead the company’s business in the Asia Pacific region, including Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, ASEAN, Australia, New Zealand, and India/South Asia.

Australia and New Zealand rental electric scooter operator Neuron Mobility has further expanded globally with the launch of a fleet of its safety-first e-scooters in the Korean capital of Seoul.

UK-based Macquarie Green Investment Group (GIG) and French global energy company Total have signed a series of agreements to co-develop an initial 2.3 GW portfolio of floating offshore wind projects in Korea.

Unified communications vendor Avaya has appointed 14-year company veteran Sami Ammous to Vice President for East Asia and the Pacific, responsible for managing its operations in Australia and New Zealand, ASEAN, Japan and Korea.

Korean crypto payments startup Human Plus has signed an exclusive business agreement with telecommunications services provider and merchant terminal company KIS Information Communications which it says will allow its payment solution to be implemented at 420,000 locations in the Seoul area alone - and to expand and diversify its services nationally across Korea.

South Korean telco KT — formerly known as Korea Telecom — has awarded Swedish telecommunications equipment maker Ericsson a 5G commercial contract to enable the nationwide launch of commercial 5G services in South Korea starting early in April 2019.

Asian tech giants NEC and Samsung Electronics have formed a partnership aimed at strengthening their next-generation technology portfolios, including 5G.

Japan's NEC Corporation and the Southeast Asia-Japan 2 consortium (SJC2) have signed an agreement for the former to build a high-performance submarine cable connecting Singapore, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Taiwan, mainland China, Korea and Japan.

The number of mobile users adopting NFC ticketing will exceed 375 million by 2022, up from an estimated 122 million globally in 2017, according to a new report from Juniper Research.