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Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Ofcom Closes Hull’s Dark-Fibre Door. Existing Circuits Get Three Years.
Ofcom has removed the rule that made KCOM supply regulated dark fibre in Hull. Customers with existing circuits keep a regulated bridge until October 2029; anyone seeking a new route must use a different route to market.
Europe and Middle East Institutional Trends
Frontex Wants to Buy the Border Stack. Who Writes the Specs?
Brussels proposes to let Frontex buy technology for several border services at once. The tender's technical requirements could outlast the officials who approved them.
North America Datacenter Trends
Enphase has an 800-volt lab result and a 2028 sales clock
Enphase can now show an 800-volt output in its Austin laboratory. Its customers still have to put a transformer through a data-centre pilot, and its core business has to finance the journey. The same Tuesday that delivered the power-electronics milestone also delivered a 29% fall…
North America Datacenter Trends
Digital Realty offers De Soto $20m while lining up 600MW
A data-centre campus can buy power years before its neighbours see a benefit. The developer has promised household credits and said it will fund its own grid connection. The city still has to turn those promises into terms residents can read.
Europe and Middle East Institutional Trends
Brussels Can Link Return Files. The First Desk Still Owns the Error.
The Commission wants national return files to travel across a common digital system. A mistake can travel too, while the authority that first typed it keeps the only edit key.
ICANN
ICANN Built an IDN Fast Lane. The Round Has 21 IDN Applications.
The GAC counted 21 internationalized-domain applications, about 1.3% of the 2026 round. ICANN’s draw can put IDNs first, but it cannot summon missing applicants.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Arcep Gives 722 Fibre Areas a Deadline. The Last Door Is the Hard Part.
Orange and XpFibre have until January to finish fibre deployment behind 722 shared access points. In those areas, roughly 45,000 premises could not order a connection on Arcep's May count. A coverage promise has reached the doorstep; the cable has not.
North America Datacenter Trends
Teradyne booked $1.3bn of sales. The cash bill arrived in inventory.
AI chip testing has turned Teradyne's revenue line into a sprint. The cash-flow statement has a second race beneath it: equipment and advance payments must be funded before every order becomes collected cash. Third-quarter operating cash was strong. So was the amount pulled into…
Europe and Middle East Institutional Trends
Frontex Wants to Patrol Posts as Well as Borders
A proposed EU border-agency law gives Frontex a route from public posts to platform notices, national orders and crisis protocols. The crucial question sits at the handoff: who decides when a border warning becomes a demand for action online?
Global Cloud Services Trends
Commvault's $68m adjusted profit sent $36m of pay outside
Subscription sales are growing. So is the bill paid in shares. The recovery software vendor's quarter asks shareholders to read operating profit, free cash flow and buybacks on the same page.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Orange España brought €1.91bn into the quarter. Its service engine went backwards.
Orange paid €4.25bn for the half of its Spanish venture it did not own. The first full quarter under its roof offers a sharp first inspection: revenue rose, but the recurring services that should carry a telecom acquisition fell. The phones in the shop window helped the sales…
Asia-Pacific Institutional Trends
The Register Said Stop. Picklebet Still Took the Bet.
Australia's BetStop added 5,961 registrations in a quarter. An ACMA investigation shows what happened in one customer's first hours: a negative check, a later positive match, bets in between, and three different legal answers.
ICANN
IANA Reviews 26 Service Targets. One Label Decides Who Gets a Hearing
The committee has selected 26 of 64 naming-service commitments for deeper review. Its amendment rule lets threshold-only changes bypass public comment and two council votes.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
HKBN saved HK$218m on interest. The network took the change.
Hong Kong's broadband operator grew sales and profit, yet its own cash measure barely advanced. A cheaper debt bill helped pay for a heavier investment year; the next accounts must show what that spending bought.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Ofcom Has Four Broadband Laggards. Its Own Rule Refuses to Pick the Worst.
BT, EE, TalkTalk and Vodafone lead the complaint list. Ofcom's comparison rule puts all four in the same bracket. The gap between a ranking and a useful decision is less than one complaint per 100,000 customers.
Global Datacenter Trends
Micron took $12.75 billion in customer deposits. The customers can get it back.
Micron has a cashier at the front of a factory queue. Customers pay for a firmer place in future memory supply while the company prepares to spend heavily on capacity. The deposit comes home to the customer if the order is fulfilled.
CASE FILE
Parcels Are Booming. The Complaint Desk Is Losing Customers.
Britain moved 4.6 billion parcels last year. Ofcom's new survey says satisfaction with the people who answer when a delivery goes wrong has slipped again. The regulator now has to decide what its 2023 rulebook actually bought.
Global Datacenter Trends
Schneider's data-centre demand is in triple digits. Its sales still have to catch up.
The electrical equipment maker is collecting demand faster than it is reporting data-centre sales. Its third quarter shows where the work is moving through the business—and where investors are being asked to wait until 2027 and 2028.
Global Datacenter Trends
WD grew 17%. GAAP EPS fell 44%. Follow the $2.05bn gain.
Western Digital sold more storage and earned more from operations. The apparent profit retreat belongs largely to a valuation gain that sat in the previous quarter, not to a collapsing drive business.
North America National Telecom Trends
Morocco Made Some Calls. Quebec Gets the C$106,000 Fine
Canada's telecom regulator held a furniture seller responsible for its overseas call centre, then cut its own proposed penalty. The call chain crossed an ocean; the limit on the regulator's fine stayed at home.