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China's leading telecommunication firms Huawei and ZTE have won a string of contracts this year to supply 5G equipment in Vietnam。 https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/11/29/tech/huawei-zte-5g-vietnam-china/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon

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Hundreds of South Korean public services remained offline following a fire at a data center that disrupted government websites and exposed vulnerabilities in the nation's digital infrastructure. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/29/asia-pacific/south-korea-data-center-fire/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon

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Federal agents dismantled a network of devices in the New York area that was used to threaten senior U.S. government officials and bore signs of foreign involvement, according to the U.S. Secret Service. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/23/world/secret-service-telecom-new-york-threat/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon

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Taiwan's space chief Wu Jong-shinn says the "clock is ticking" for the democratic island to launch its own satellites to secure internet and phone services during a potential conflict with China. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/20/asia-pacific/taiwan-satellite-communications/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon

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Japanese telecommunications companies are gradually moving to raise rates amid swelling costs for personnel and other expenses, marking a shift from the government-led price-cutting trend that began in 2020. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/09/18/companies/japan-telecom-carriers-rates-up/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon

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U.S. President Donald Trump’s family is getting into the mobile phone business. The venture stands to escalate concerns over how the president’s business enterprises conflict with his government responsibilities. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/06/17/trump-branded-mobile-service/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon

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Corporate investigators found evidence that Chinese hackers broke into an American telecommunications company in the summer of 2023, indicating the country’s attackers penetrated the U.S. earlier than publicly known. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/06/05/world/chinese-hack-us-telecom-wireless/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon

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The parliament enacted a bill to revise the law that governs Nippon Telegraph and Telephone's operations at a House of Councilors plenary session on Wednesday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/05/21/companies/revised-ntt-law-enactment/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon

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KDDI plans to utilize its new service connecting smartphones directly with Space X's Starlink satellite communication network to operate drones. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/04/24/companies/kddi-starlink-use-for-drones/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon

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Sumitomo and SBI Holdings are to each acquire a 20% stake in a unit of Vietnam’s software and telecommunications conglomerate FPT to foster artificial intelligence adoption in Japan. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/04/22/companies/sumitomo-sbi-stakes-vietnam/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon

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The Starlink communications network is facing stiff challenges to its dominance of high-speed satellite internet, including from a Chinese state-backed rival and another service financed by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/02/24/tech/musk-starlink-china-satellite-internet/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon

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Apple has been secretly working with SpaceX and T-Mobile to add support for the Starlink network in its latest iPhone software. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/01/30/tech/apple-spacex-starlink-iphone/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon

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Rakuten’s chief dismissed skeptics who call the Japanese e-commerce pioneer’s mobile foray a mistake and said the telecom arm is central for future growth through artificial intelligence. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/01/21/companies/rakuten-ceo-mikitani-ai-bet/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon

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Italy is in advanced talks with Elon Musk’s SpaceX for a deal to provide secure telecommunications for the nation’s government — the largest such project in Europe. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/01/06/tech/italy-spacex-telecom-security-deal/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon

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Finnish authorities seized a ship carrying Russian oil on suspicion it caused the outage of an undersea power cable connecting Finland and Estonia and that it also damaged or broke four internet lines. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/12/27/world/finland-ship-cable-outages-board/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon

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A communications ministry panel in Japan has stopped short of making a definite decision on whether to scrap a law imposing various restrictions on NTT. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2024/11/27/companies/ntt-law-panel/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon

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Chinese state-sponsored hackers perpetrated a "broad and significant cyber-espionage campaign” in which they breached multiple telecommunications companies, U.S. officials said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/11/14/world/us-china-cyberespionage-telecoms/

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In a sign of the times, Okinawa's call centers — which received around 125,000 Dial 104 calls a day at the peak of their operations — are moving on to other tasks, with NTT discontinuing the service in March 2026 due to a plunge in landline users. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/11/11/japan/society/ntt-telephone-directory-okinawa/

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Singapore Telecommunications was breached by Chinese state-sponsored hackers this summer as part of a broader campaign against telecommunications companies and other critical infrastructure operators around the world. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/11/06/asia-pacific/crime-legal/chinese-hacking-singtel-telecom/

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The Federal Communications Commission said on Wednesday it will vote next month to review its oversight of the global network of undersea communications cables that handle nearly all the world's internet traffic and national security issues. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/10/31/world/politics/us-undersea-cables-national-security/

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NTT Docomo will replace about 930,000 SIM cards due to manufacturing errors that could cause them to become unusable even if they are functioning normally now, the company said Tuesday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2024/10/10/companies/ntt-sim-recall/