Smart Communications blocks more than 13 million SMShing messages
24 April 2024
In the first quarter of this year, Smart Communications blocked more than 13 million SMShing messages designed to help criminals take over people’s social media accounts.
Like with email phishing, SMShing tries to get the victim to click a malicious link.
Find out more Viettel and Singtel sign MoU on subsea cable
19 April 2024
Viettel Business Solutions has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Singtel to collaborate on deploying the first subsea cable directly connecting Vietnam and Singapore.
The Vietnam-Singapore Cable System (VTS) will be designed with eight fibre pairs using advanced WDM technology. When the cable becomes operational in the second quarter of 2027, it will add hundreds of Tbps to Viettel's total international connectivity capacity.
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HSPnet reports cable breakthrough
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18 April 2024
At the beginning of 2024, HSPnet launched high-capacity services of up to 6Tbps on its B3JS (Jakarta-Bangka-Bintan-Batam-Singapore) and BDMCS (Batam-Dumai-Medan) cable systems.
The transmission routes, totaling around 2,000km across both underwater and land cables, are supported by Ciena's WaveLogic Ai-powered 6500 platform.
Find out more DoT launches experiment licence module for 5G labs
17 April 2024
India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has launched an experimental licence module that will allow its established 5G labs across India to test 5G use cases.
The DoT has set up 5G use case labs within 100 institutes across the country with the objective to build competencies and engagement in 5G technologies for students and startup communities. The experimental licence from the DoT will enable those labs to use 5G spectrum bands to test whatever use cases they come up with without interfering with commercial 5G services.
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