Telecommunication
Submarine cable firm OMS Group considers $300-million Malaysia stock listing
Shah Alam, Malaysia-based OMS Group, a company which installs and maintains submarine cable systems mainly for telecom corporations in Asia-Pacific, is mulling a listing...
Myanmar’s junta introduces hefty tax on Internet services to curb communication, raise income
Myanmar’s military government implemented a hefty raise of the commercial tax on Internet services on January 8, state-run newspaper Global New Light of Myanmar...
Norway’s Telenor faces hurdles in selling Myanmar business
Norwegian telecom company Telenor is faced with a big backlash to its strategy of focusing on expanding in developing countries as Myanmar’s unrelenting junta...
Myanmar’s military-owned Mytel faced with destruction of telecom towers
Myanmar’s telecom service provider Mytel, the country’s third-largest mobile phone operator with a pre-coup and pre-Covid-19-pandemic market share of about 14 per cent, is...
Philippines invites Chinese firms to become country’s third telecom player
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has asked China to invest in the Philippines’ telecommunication industry and to set up a subsidiary that would become the...
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Thailand, Singapore most vulnerable to potential US recession
Southeast Asia could be seriously affected in case the US falls into recession, but some countries would be more badly hit than others, economists...