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Global National Telecom Trends
6G plans shift towards reusing 5G spectrum and radios
Early 6G designs favour reusing 5G infrastructure, which could reduce opportunities for operators to switch suppliers.
Global Cloud Services Trends
SD-WAN strengthens as SASE growth tops 20%
Dell'Oro says SASE revenue reached $3.5bn in Q2 while SD-WAN strengthened as enterprises selectively replaced ageing branch infrastructure.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
European telcos push EU on consolidation
European telecom CEOs want merger rules to give more weight to scale and investment as Brussels rewrites its competition framework.
North America National Telecom Trends
FCC opens five-year rural wireless test zone in Iowa
Iowa State's ARA testbed can now run wireless experiments across Ames and surrounding farmland under a five-year FCC Innovation Zone designation.
Global National Telecom Trends
Harmonic expands beyond DOCSIS with fibre and AI
Harmonic is pushing further into PON and AI software as cable operators add fibre, aiming to stay relevant as the physical access network changes.
North America National Telecom Trends
Cox and Verizon outages reach global customers
ThousandEyes saw 14-minute Cox and eight-minute Verizon Business outages affect partners and customers across multiple countries despite their brief duration.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
CMA reviews £2bn Nexfibre-Netomnia deal
The deal could expand VMO2 and Nexfibre's combined footprint towards 10 million premises, while the CMA's Phase 2 review runs to 15 December.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom
Huawei sets out 'Nvidia of ICT' ambition
Huawei chairman Guo Ping says the company wants to become the "Nvidia of ICT", putting computing and connectivity at the centre of its AI strategy.
North America National Telecom
Spectrum reaches 11m former Cox locations
Spectrum pricing and packages are now available across former Cox markets, while Charter continues integrating sales, service and operating processes after the merger.
North America National Telecom
Cricket launches 5G home internet on AT&T network
Cricket has launched fixed wireless home internet over AT&T's 5G network, extending the prepaid brand into broadband without building a separate access network.
North America National Telecom Trends
FCC gives four carriers more time for rip-and-replace
Four US carriers received deadline extensions as labour, logistics, equipment shortages and ransomware replaced funding as the main barriers to completing rip-and-replace work
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
Anthropic signs Queensland lease before approvals
Anthropic has committed to the first stage of Zerra DC's Western Downs campus while local planning and foreign-investment approvals remain outstanding.
North America Cloud Services
CoreWeave brings up multi-rack Vera Rubin cluster
CoreWeave linked hundreds of Rubin GPUs and added storage changes aimed at reducing cross-region write delays for AI workloads.
Africa Datacenter
Digital Parks Africa plans Lagos data centre
Digital Parks Africa has announced NDC1 in Lagos and engaged Uptime Institute for a Tier IV assessment, but no certification, capacity or opening date has been disclosed.
Global National Telecom Trends
Nokia names eight operators testing AI-RAN
Eight operators are testing Nokia and NVIDIA AI-RAN technology, but none has announced a commercial deployment.
Europe and Middle East Datacenter
CRA secures fibre routes for Prague Gateway DC
CRA has contracted optical connectivity from five partners for Prague Gateway DC, combining existing, leased and newly built routes while construction continues.
Global Datacenter Trends
Schneider launches 2.5MW prefabricated power modules
Schneider Electric's 2.5MW prefabricated power modules move more electrical assembly and testing into the factory, reducing work that must be completed on site.
Africa National Telecom Trends
Gabon signs 20-year backbone deal with Gabon Fiber
Gabon Fiber will operate and expand the national backbone under a 20-year concession, with more than CFA41bn sought for 1,651km of new fibre.
North America Datacenter Trends
Microsoft files wetlands permit for Virginia campus
Microsoft has filed with the US Army Corps for a two-building Virginia data-centre campus with an on-site substation.
North America Datacenter Trends
Serverfarm lifts credit facility to $3.89bn
Serverfarm has expanded its revolving credit facility to $3.89bn for North American data-centre development, but has not disclosed how much is drawn.