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As part of its extensive Corporate Social Responsibility actions and acknowledging the social contribution of the Daw Khin Kyi Foundation, Ooredoo Myanmar donated two fully equipped Emergency Rapid Response Vehicle units to the foundation on January 13, 2020. The handover ceremony was held at Daw Khin Kyi Foundation at University Avenue Road, Yangon and on behalf of Ooredoo Myanmar, Tint Naing Htut, Head of Corporate Communications handed over the ambulance vehicles to representatives from Daw Khin Kyi Foundation.

Epsilon, a global connectivity and communications service provider, announced its strategic move into the enterprise market with its global, secure software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) as the key offering. The company accelerated its efforts to build enterprise-grade products and services after the successful completion of its 100 Gigabyte per second (100G) upgrade.

Digi Telecommunications Sdn Bhd, one of the major mobile service providers in Malaysia, recently collaborated with Malaysia Airports and Panorama Langkawi to showcase the country’s first ever real-time virtual tourism experience, powered by Digi 5G technology. The venue for the demonstration was organised at Langkawi International Airport (LGK).

Inmarsat, the world leader in global, mobile satellite communications has received formal confirmation from its launch partner, Arianespace, that the company’s GX5 satellite will be launched from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana on Friday 22 November 2019. The launch window is between 21:08 and 22:43 UK time / UTC.

ZTE Corporation, a major international provider of telecommunications, enterprise and consumer technology solutions for the mobile Internet, has bagged a large portion of China Mobile’s 2019 bidding for NFV network equipment, covering six of the eight regions for control plane, and spanning 12 provinces in total.

Nokia has signed a contract with leading telecommunications service provider Hutchison 3 Indonesia (3ID) to provide IoT coverage to enterprises in Indonesia.

Australia is currently facing one of the most devastating bushfires in the last few years. The fires, which began in June 2019, have torn through various regions of New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia.

Nokia and Hutchison 3 Indonesia (3ID) have completed the first 5G end-to-end live network trial in Indonesia. The trial, which was conducted on a Nokia network on millimeter wave frequencies, demonstrates the 3ID network’s ability to support end-to-end 5G deployment.

Indosat Ooredoo has come together as a team to provide assistance and support to its employees devastated by the massive floods that wreaked havoc on the Indonesian capital at the beginning of the year, just as the rest of the world ushered in the year 2020 with fanfare and excitement.

Most of the global internet traffic today utilizes infrastructure located primarily in the northern hemisphere to link Asia, Europe and North America. Meanwhile, the southern hemisphere, which includes parts of Asia, Africa and South America is heavily connected via links coming from the North as well. However, the traffic to the southern region currently travels a longer route which may affect the internet experience of the end users.