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The Ministry That Arrived Without a Deadline

Vittorio Colao’s delegation as Italy’s minister for technological innovation and digital transition handed him subjects, powers and the right to speak for the government abroad. It handed him no date. The calendar that governed Italy’s digital-transition money lived in a different instrument, addressed to different bodies — and it outlived the government that appointed him.

Fifteen Buildings and a Cable You Have to Buy Yourself

AMS-IX is not one room, and its own engineers say so plainly. What its published record refuses to say is how many rooms it is, or which one of them keeps your traffic alive.

A Cable Plant Became a Minerals Warehouse. The IP Record Never Noticed.

ARIN handle SSS-10 still lists STC Submarine Systems, Inc. at 15540 N. Lombard St. in Portland, Oregon. The Portland cable business was judged no longer viable, the lease was assigned to a minerals distributor in 2006, and a decade after that a federal pilot book still called the dock by the old company name. A registry listing is not a certificate of corporate existence, and the distance between those two things is where capacity contracts go wrong.

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