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North America National Telecom Trends
The Call Centre Was in Morocco. The $106,000 Bill Landed in Quebec.
Esprit Habitat hired a call centre across the Atlantic to invite Canadians to furniture sales. Canada's telecom regulator traced the calls back to the company that wanted the customers, then cut its own proposed penalty to a defensible number.
North America Cloud Services Trends
F5 filled the shelves. Now it wants a bigger buyback cheque.
Systems are F5's fastest-growing disclosed product line. Inventory has climbed much faster than annual revenue, and the board has just added $1.5 billion of permission to buy back shares. The test is whether the stocked hardware finds customers quickly enough to justify that use…
ICANN
ICANN Hired a Referee for the 2026 Domain Round. The Panels Keep the Whistle.
JAS Global Advisors will inspect how new top-level-domain applications are evaluated. Its findings can expose inconsistent calls; ICANN and the evaluators still control the remedy.
IETF
The New ISP Offers /56. Your /48 Network Plan Gets the Bill.
A revised IETF draft puts an awkward number on broadband switching: one provider's address block may be too small for the layout a customer built under another.
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
NTT's storage test lost 3% across Japan. Ishikari now has to sell it.
Tokyo can reach Hokkaido over a commercial optical circuit. NTT East and BroadBand Tower have also made remote storage read almost as fast as local storage in a defined test. The awkward detail for a data-centre pitch is the address: the test ended at a Sapporo exchange, while…
Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
Nokia won €1.5bn in AI orders. Its next quarter needs a bigger number.
Nokia's AI and cloud order book is growing fast. Its income statement still has to catch up on a company-wide calendar that assumes a sharp fourth-quarter sales rise. Orders are promises to deliver; the next test is how much equipment reaches acceptance and revenue before the…
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Hull’s Regulated Dark Fibre Gets Three Years. New Buyers Get None.
Ofcom dropped the new-access obligation and shortened the proposed protection for existing circuits from five years to three. The incumbent keeps a commercial option; the statutory duty expires.
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.