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Editorial illustration of a Community Fibre connection at a London home with the city skyline and 8.5Gbps broadband highlighted.

Europe and Middle East Regional ISP

Community Fibre launches 8.5Gbps in London

Community Fibre has installed its first 8.5Gbps residential connections in London, raising its fastest home broadband tier from 5Gbps.

Sep 18, 2026
Editorial illustration comparing remaining PSTN migration in London and Liverpool, with Openreach infrastructure and the January 2027 switch-off deadline

Europe and Middle East National Telecom

Openreach finds London behind on PSTN migration

London has 12.92% of WLR lines still to migrate, more than double Liverpool's share as the January 2027 PSTN deadline approaches.

Sep 18, 2026
Editorial illustration of a Meta data centre development in Utah with mountains, construction equipment and graphics highlighting $3bn investment, power demand and water constraints.

North America Datacenter

Meta raises Utah data centre spend to $3bn

Meta has increased its planned Utah data centre investment to $3bn, but has not disclosed the capacity, cooling design or power arrangements behind the higher figure.

Sep 18, 2026
Editorial infographic showing Nokia network data flowing through Nokia Data Suite into Microsoft Fabric for telecom automation

Global National Telecom Trends

Nokia links network data to Microsoft Fabric

The integration gives telecom operators a common data layer for network automation, reducing the need to build separate pipelines for each AI use case.

Sep 18, 2026
Editorial illustration of a fibre worker outside the European Commission with EU flags and references to VATM, BREKO and ANGA.

Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends

German telecom groups urge EU to protect fibre competition

VATM, BREKO and ANGA want the Digital Networks Act to keep regulation tied to actual market power and preserve a predictable copper-to-fibre transition.

Sep 18, 2026
Editorial graphic showing a US 5G tower, the Capitol and regulatory stages for C-band, 1.6GHz, 2.7GHz, 4.4GHz and 7GHz spectrum

North America National Telecom Trends

FCC lines up spectrum auctions after C-band

Upper C-band has auction rules and a deadline, while the 1.6GHz, 2.7GHz, 4.4GHz and 7GHz bands remain at different identification and study stages.

Sep 18, 2026
Editorial illustration of Hutchison Telecom in Hong Kong with 5G infrastructure and H1 2026 figures for corporate, customer service and roaming revenue.

Asia-Pacific National Telecom

Hutchison Telecom corporate revenue rises 43%

Local service revenue stayed flat even as 5G penetration reached 64%, leaving corporate services and roaming to provide much of Hutchison Telecom's growth.

Sep 18, 2026
AI-generated editorial illustration of AWS data-centre disruption in Bahrain and the UAE, showing unrecoverable data and affected Availability Zones

Europe and Middle East Datacenter

AWS cannot restore data kept only in Bahrain

AWS says resources and data stored only in its Bahrain Region cannot be recovered, while one of three UAE Availability Zones is also beyond restoration.

Sep 18, 2026
AI-generated editorial illustration of an Australian mobile-network outage affecting emergency calls, with a failed phone call, telecom tower and Triple Zero imagery

Asia-Pacific National Telecom

Optus outage tests emergency-call failover

A 76-minute hardware failure disrupted voice calls and left 46 Triple Zero calls unable to connect. The unanswered question is whether emergency camp-on worked as intended.

Sep 18, 2026
AI-generated editorial illustration of European telecom workers and EU institutions representing proposed rules to phase high-risk vendors out of mobile networks

Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends

EU high-risk vendor plan draws telco pushback

Connect Europe and GSMA Europe oppose proposed EU rules that could force designated high-risk equipment out of mobile networks within three years.

Sep 18, 2026
AI-generated editorial illustration of Khazna Data Centers and Siemens partnering on 800VDC power, digital twins and AI-ready data-centre technology

Europe and Middle East Datacenter

Khazna and Siemens explore 800VDC AI power

A new MoU covers digital twins, 800VDC power and technology testing for future AI data centres, but names no facility, capacity or deployment date.

Sep 18, 2026
AI-generated editorial illustration of a Loudoun County data-centre campus representing the proposed 12-month pause on certain applications

North America Datacenter Trends

Loudoun advances 12-month data-centre pause

Loudoun supervisors voted 7-1-1 to draft a 12-month pause on legislative data-centre and substation applications, with a final vote expected on 20 October.

Sep 18, 2026
Editorial illustration of fibre deployment in Nairobi with ICT Authority Kenya branding, representing Kenya's new multi-provider backbone framework

Africa National Telecom Trends

Kenya opens fibre framework to multiple providers

ICTA can appoint up to 28 providers across two lots, then compete individual backbone, metro and cross-border requirements through later call-off contracts.

Sep 18, 2026
Editorial illustration of AirJoule water-generation equipment linked to BitSink data-centre cooling infrastructure through a waste-heat flow

North America Datacenter Trends

AirJoule buys BitSink for data-centre cooling

The acquisition gives AirJoule an operating cooling business and a route to test whether data-centre waste heat can support on-site water generation.

Sep 18, 2026
AI-generated editorial illustration of TotalEnergies and Mistral developing AI for seismic analysis and reservoir engineering

Europe and Middle East Cloud Services Trends

TotalEnergies, Mistral build oil-and-gas AI models

The partnership brings a European model developer into TotalEnergies' subsurface work, where control of data and deployment matters alongside model performance.

Sep 18, 2026
AI-generated editorial illustration of a satellite connecting directly to a mobile phone as regulators consider D2D spectrum rules ahead of WRC-27

Global National Telecom Trends

WRC-27 weighs new spectrum rules for D2D

WRC-27 will consider new spectrum rules for satellite links to ordinary mobile devices as regulators work through interference, licensing and cross-border coordination.

Sep 18, 2026
Editorial illustration of a silicon wafer with embedded power devices beside AI server racks, representing Onsemi's Embedded Power Platform

Global Datacenter Trends

Onsemi unveils wafer-level power platform for AI racks

Its Embedded Power Platform integrates power devices into a silicon wafer-level package, targeting denser power delivery as AI racks consume more electricity.

Sep 18, 2026
AI-generated editorial illustration showing US data-centre moratoriums, state restrictions and the estimated 2.3GW of capacity delayed

North America Datacenter Trends

US data-centre moratoriums delay 2.3GW

SemiAnalysis mapped more than 300 US data-centre moratoriums but estimates only about 2.3GW of planned capacity is genuinely delayed.

Sep 18, 2026
Layered illustration of cloud infrastructure automation bounded by policy gates, capacity limits, networking, storage and hybrid deployment dependencies.

Global Cloud Services

Oracle Cloud’s automation promise meets the limits of deployment

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is more than a transit-routing service: it offers code-driven provisioning, event-triggered operations, recovery orchestration and specialized AI capacity. The practical question is not whether these controls exist, but how much operational work they…

Sep 17, 2026
Abstract distributed diagram showing ICANN’s foundational instruments, policy procedures, DNS delegation structure, contractual branches and bounded accountability pathways.

ICANN

ICANN’s Authority Is Layered—and So Are Its Remedies

ICANN does not exercise one undifferentiated kind of power. Its authority is assembled from corporate instruments, Bylaws, policy procedures and private contracts; the route for challenging an action depends on which layer produced it.

Sep 17, 2026