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  • Over 1,500 Telecom Leaders Gather in Bangkok for Telecoms World Asia 2026

    Over 1,500 Telecom Leaders Gather in Bangkok for Telecoms World Asia 2026

    More than 1,500 telecommunications executives gathered in Bangkok on 27 October 2026 for Telecoms World Asia 2026 to address how operators can turn network scale into profit.

    The two-day conference, held at the Centara Grand and Bangkok Convention Center at CentralWorld, brings together mobile network operators, MVNOs, wholesalers, regulators, and technology companies from across Asia and international markets.

    Terrapinn Managing Director (Asia) Paul Clark noted that the region’s industry has reached a critical inflection point, with more than 130 leaders speaking across five tracks and over 120 exhibitors showing network platforms and infrastructure solutions.

    Monetising Generative AI and Advanced Networks

    Day One opened with an executive panel assessing whether generative artificial intelligence can generate direct commercial returns for carriers rather than inflating software costs. Speakers included Telekom Malaysia Group Chief Executive Amar Huzaimi Md Deris, XLSMART President Director and Chief Executive Rajeev Sethi, Circles.Life Chief Revenue Officer Sanjay Kaul, and Jazz Chief AI Officer Hamza Khokhar. EQator Director Jayanth Nagarajan moderated the session.

    Network evolution remains a major operational challenge across Southeast Asia. Average revenue per user remains compressed across the region, even with heavy capital outlays on spectrum and fiber backhaul. Vodafone Business International President Bhupinder Singh delivered an address examining execution gaps on the path from standalone 5G to 5G-Advanced deployments.

    APAC’s telco industry is at a critical inflection point. The operators, regulators, and technology leaders gathering in Bangkok this week know it better than anyone, and Telecoms World Asia 2026 is where the most senior voices in Asian telco come to move beyond the conversation and into action.

    Autonomous Networks and Executive Reorganisation

    Sessions on Day Two address structural operating changes required to integrate automated tools into network management. Telkom Indonesia President Director and Chief Executive Dian Siswarini, True Corporation Head of Corporate Strategy Tarit Nimmanwudipong, Axiata Group Head of Cyber Security Suresh Srinivasan, and Deutsche Telekom Managing Director Asia George Aprane join a keynote panel on executive restructuring models. APTelecom Co-Founder Sean Bergin moderates.

    China Telecom Chief Engineer Xinhua Shao presents technical frameworks for self-evolving autonomous networks. These architectures handle dynamic traffic routing and automated maintenance at scale. Title sponsor China Telecom leads regional carrier participation alongside Gold sponsors CommScope, China Mobile International, Equinix, NTT DATA, Plume, Tejas Networks, and Yango Tech, with lanyard sponsorship from China Unicom Global.

    Read-Across for Asian Carriers and Enterprise Tech

    Regional operators face a structural margin squeeze. Consumer mobile broadband yields are flattening, while enterprise cloud migration demands ongoing infrastructure spending. Thai host operator True Corporation and regional groups Axiata and Telkom Indonesia are reallocating capital away from pure base-station density. They are pivoting toward enterprise software integrations and wholesale managed services.

    This shift alters the commercial balance for enterprise technology suppliers and data center operators across Southeast Asia. Carriers demand clear payback periods on AI compute integration before committing to large-scale vendor licenses. That forces enterprise suppliers to structure contracts around verifiable operational cost cuts rather than speculative consumer revenue growth.

    Shifting Capital Deployment Strategies

    Debates in Bangkok follow two years of regional operator consolidation. Major carrier mergers in Thailand and Indonesia aimed to curb destructive price competition. Those balance-sheet combinations provided short-term cash-flow relief. However, carriers now face the reality that consolidated market share alone cannot offset the high capital costs of next-generation infrastructure.

    Mobile operators from Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, and Thailand are reviewing commercial terms for shared wholesale infrastructure and enterprise private networks. The key metric to watch across participating carriers through the next reporting cycle will be non-mobile enterprise revenue as a share of total corporate earnings.

  • Asia Pacific Mobile Operator Emissions Rose 6% to 23 Million Tons

    Asia Pacific Mobile Operator Emissions Rose 6% to 23 Million Tons

    Asia Pacific mobile operators increased their operational emissions by 6% between 2019 and 2024 to around 23 million tons of CO2 equivalent, according to the GSMA.

    The rise came as mobile data traffic across the region jumped 350% over the five-year period, outpacing a 6% growth in mobile connections and driving up network power demand.

    Operators in the region spent around USD 7 billion on energy in 2024, consuming approximately 50 TWh of electricity alongside 350 million liters of diesel and gasoline.

    Widening Split Between North and Southeast Asia

    Operational emissions trajectories diverged sharply between mature power markets and developing economies across the region. Mobile operators in Southeast Asia recorded a 20 percent increase in operational emissions over the five-year span as carriers rolled out network coverage to meet surging consumer internet demand.

    Operators in Japan and Oceania reduced operational emissions by more than 30 percent over the same period. Those reductions tracked wider domestic availability of commercial renewable energy contracts and corporate green power tariffs.

    Purchased or self-generated renewable electricity across Asia-Pacific operators reached 7 terawatt-hours in 2024, accounting for 15 percent of their total electricity use. While that figure rose from 1 percent in 2019, the regional share still lagged behind the global telecom industry average of 24 percent.

    Procurement Barriers in Developing Grids

    Clean power access remains concentrated in a handful of advanced markets. Telecommunications carriers in Japan and Australia sourced more than 50 percent of their electricity from renewable assets in 2024, compared with 8 percent in South Asia and 4 percent across Southeast Asia. In Malaysia, operators drew 5 percent of their power from clean sources.

    Regulatory frameworks in developing markets limit corporate power purchase agreements and offer few mechanisms to aggregate power demand across thousands of scattered mobile towers. High retail clean-energy tariffs and prolonged permitting timelines for grid connections further restrict deployment.

    Select Southeast Asian carriers have bypassed these constraints through local supply contracts. Globe Telecom in the Philippines sourced roughly one-third of its electricity from renewable generators in 2025, while Telekom Malaysia and Thailand-based True Corporation exceeded 20 percent renewable power adoption.

    Supply Chain and Scope 3 Exposure

    Network operations represent only a fraction of the broader environmental balance sheet for regional telecommunications providers. Value-chain and supply-chain emissions, classified as Scope 3, reached approximately 110 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2024, representing more than 80 percent of total industry emissions in the Asia Pacific.

    That concentration places financial and compliance pressure directly on network equipment vendors and independent tower companies. Carriers are demanding audited carbon reporting, circular hardware design, and science-based reduction plans from their primary suppliers.

    To date, 21 mobile network operators in the Asia Pacific have secured validated near-term science-based climate targets, representing 55 percent of regional mobile connections and 75 percent of total industry revenue. Another 13 regional carriers hold validated net-zero commitments covering 40 percent of connections.

    Grid Upgrades and Regulatory Reforms Ahead

    Telecommunications operators across the region are pressing governments for structural electricity reforms, accelerated coal phase-outs, and streamlined clean-power procurement rules tailored for distributed infrastructure. Carriers are also petitioning state regulators to classify mobile base stations and backhaul lines as critical infrastructure in national disaster and climate-resilience budgets as tropical storms and coastal flooding escalate.

    The earliest operator net-zero target dates across the Asia Pacific begin in 2040, leaving regional carriers dependent on state grid modernization and corporate procurement reforms to cut the remaining 85 percent of fossil-powered electricity from their balance sheets.