Metaverse may be an overhyped term thrust upon the world by one vendor but it has become a convenient rallying call for strategies and partnerships within the mobile world. A recent example covering Asia-Pacific is a memorandum of understanding (MoU) reached between Singaporean operator SingTel and South Korea’s SK Telecom (SKT), to expand in the region through services based on 5G under that banner. The two will begin this endeavor in Singapore where SingTel has already established a 5G network suitable for trials of some of the key technologies requiring high bandwidth and low latency. SKT will contribute its metaverse platform called ifland, which it launched in November 2022 to bring together some of the requisite technologies under the extended…