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Huawei’s Ascend 310 chip stood out among more than 400 technology achievements to win Fifth World Internet Conference (WIC) World Leading Scientific and Technological Achievement award. This honor recognizes artificial intelligence (AI) system-on-chips (SoC) as having the industry’s strongest compute capabilities for edge computing scenarios, with support from the unified and scalable Da Vinci architecture. This marks the third consecutive year Huawei has received this award and the opportunity to showcase its innovation during the conference.

Japan's mobile telecommunications pioneer, NTT Docomo, reported an increase of about 4% in revenues and net profit in the first half, showing good conditions despite competition.

ZTE, a major international provider of telecommunications, enterprise and consumer technology solutions for the Mobile Internet has expressed its delight that it was ranked among the top 100 glonbal innovators by PwC in its latest report entitled ‘The 2018 Global Innovation 1000 Study’.

China Mobile International Limited (CMI) yesterday announces the launch of its Middle East office in Dubai, further deepening its investment and collaboration with the Middle East.

The mobile unit of Japan’s SoftBank is set to win listing approval from the Tokyo Stock Exchange on November 12 with December 19 as the listing date. The listing, which will most likely be Japan’s biggest ever, makes SoftBank and its more than $93 billion Vision Fund one of the world’s largest technology investors.

TE, a major international provider of telecommunications, enterprise and consumer technology solutions for the Mobile Internet, today announced that it has provided a comprehensive solution for customized wireless network coverage for the world’s longest sea-crossing bridge, Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge (HZMB) in partnership with the Guangdong arm of China Mobile.

Qualcomm has unveiled that it is planning to establish three technology and testing centers in Taiwan which will help in the commercial development of 5G and advanced technologies. The research and design centers will be established in Hsinchu in the north of the country and will be operational in 2019.

Nokia has announced that it has extended its patent license agreement between Nokia and Samsung, which would otherwise have expired at the end of 2018.

ZTE Corporation reported net profit of RMB 564 million for the third quarter. The company strengthened its cost control, and reduced its sales and management expenses on a year-on-year basis.
In the third quarter, ZTE posted operating revenue of RMB 19.3 billion, and its R&D investment reached RMB 3.47 billion, covering 17.9% of the quarter’s revenue, a year-on-year increase of 6.7%, compared with 11.2% of the same period last year.  

Ahead of the 26th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum taking place in Papua New Guinea, the PNG Government through its implementing agency, DataCo with the assistance of the Australian Government, have chosen SES Networks to provide managed data service delivering 6Gbps of high-bandwidth, low-latency connectivity to ensure the venues and all delegates have reliable, high-speed internet access during the conference from October to December 2018.