Indonesia

Ministry of Transportation Republic Indonesia Says RI Is Still Less Than Vietnam (CNBC Indonesia)

Minister of Transportation, Budi Karya Sumadi said inter-regional logistics connectivity is still a challenge for transportation development in Indonesia. This has an impact on the competitiveness of the business as a...

Indonesia

IoT Development in Indonesia - AIBP Singapore 2018 Throwback

IoT presents a lot of opportunities across verticals and we have witnessed a lot of use cases of IoT in smart city projects and transport and logistics sector in Indonesia....

Thailand

Asean cities to ‘GET SMART’ (The Nation)

Thailand will play a leading role in implementing the smart-city network covering 26 cities in the 10 Asean countries as the Kingdom takes over as the bloc’s chair next year,...

Indonesia

IoT for Digital Fishing Village (Merdeka)

Telkomsel strengthens its seriousness in developing the Internet of Things (IoT) to realize Digital Innovation Village in Indonesia. The development of the IoT ecosystem is realized through the application of Narrowband...

China

Keppel Corporation subsidiary to develop smart IoT city in China (Singapore Business Review)

Keppel Corporation’s subsidiary Keppel Urban Solutions signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Administrative Committee of Jiangsu Wuxi Economic Development Zone and marketing communications firm Envision Group to develop...

Thailand

Is Thailand 4.0 coming to fruition? (The ASEAN Post)

Thailand has also identified 10 S-curve industries that will propel the country to developed nation status. The S-curve industries are divided into two categories – S-curve and New S-curve. S-curve...

Singapore

M1 inks deal to develop Jurong Port into advanced digital smart port (Singapore Business Review)

M1 signed a Memorandum on Understanding (MOU) with Jurong Port to provide a terminal-wide wireless private network to support the port’s transformation into an advanced digital smart port, an announcement...

Singapore

French aerospace firm Thales expands Singapore operations with new digital lab (The Straits Times)

French aerospace company Thales has added a new 'digital factory' to its stable of research labs in Singapore, with the aim of producing high tech data-based solutions for the region...

ASEAN

KPMG: CEOs still rely on intuition in this digital and data-driven era (The Star)

According to KPMG’s “2018 Global CEO Outlook: Growing pains” report, CEOs are excited about the sweeping changes that technology brings. At 95%, almost all CEOs see technological disruption as more of...

Indonesia

Kominfo Promises to Raise Next Month IoT Frequency Regulation (CNN Indonesia)

The Ministry of Communication and Information (Kemenkominfo) through the Directorate General of Resources and Equipment of Post and Information Technology (SDPPI) revealed plans to spawn frequency and spectrum usage regulations...

Thailand

IoT regulations due next year (Bangkok Post)

A series of regulatory conditions for the Internet of Things (IoT) and related device connectivity are scheduled to be implemented by 2019 to handle machine-to-machine connectivity in the industrial sector, with...

Singapore

New innovation centre here to give firms access to technology that transmits data using light (The Straits Times)

Photonics, the science behind how light transmits data, is already in use here in fibre optic cables that provide people with Internet connection, but its potential is huge, said American...

Thailand

Arrow Electronics Teams up with 10 Global Technology Suppliers to Help Thai Businesses Adopt Integrated IoT Solutions (Viet Nam News)

According to a survey conducted by Asia IoT Business Platform in 2017, companies in Thailand were most likely (89%) to explore and/or implement IoT solutions. This was followed by Malaysia...

Asia Pacific

Asia's overstretched airports brace for 4bn flyers (Nikkei Asian Review)

In the Asia-Pacific region alone, 228 new airports are being built, according to the CAPA Center for Aviation, a Sydney-based industry think tank. That is more than half the global...

Thailand

AIS invites Thais to experience 5G First Live in Thailand on 22 November (The Nation)

After securing an additional 10MHz of spectrum on the 1800MHz band in August 2018, AIS has become the digital network service operator with the most bandwidth with a total 120MHz...

Singapore

New initiatives launched to help companies adopt emerging technologies (Channel NewsAsia)

Call centres of the future may be able to predict the reason for a customer’s call, and banks could prompt clients to raise their credit limit ahead of a weekend...

ASEAN

Government Key Initiatives and Enterprise Digitisation Projects in ASEAN in 2018

Ranked third in terms of population, sixth in GDP and fourth in trade value, ASEAN remains to be a key player in the global economy, however, ASEAN's digital economy still...

Southeast Asia

The potential of 5G in Southeast Asia (The ASEAN Post)

The mobile market in ASEAN is so big that all member countries have an average of more than 100 percent active mobile internet connections as opposed to population. The number of...

ASEAN

Asean e-commerce pact paves way for digital economy (Malay Mail)

The Asean agreement on e-commerce paves the way for the digital economy to further flourish in the region, while advancing trade rules and building digital connectivity within it. The Asean...

Myanmar

A country full of potential, from 2G to 4G in less than 3 years - 27th Asia IoT Business Platform in Myanmar

U Soe Thein, Director General of the Post and Telecommunications Department under the Ministry of Transport and Communications said in his Government Keynote Address today that “IoT, blockchains, AI, big...