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Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
Scotland votes on hyperscale data-centre moratorium
MSPs are debating a moratorium as Scotland adds mandatory environmental assessments for data centres above 50MW but has yet to publish a national strategy.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom
Cambium UK subsidiary enters administration
Cambium's UK subsidiary entered administration days after the group cut 260 jobs, leaving customers waiting to see how product support and warranties will continue.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
Japan's four operators study shared 28GHz infrastructure
KDDI, NTT DOCOMO, SoftBank, and Rakuten Mobile will study shared 28GHz infrastructure while continuing their own deployments.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Norway charges Telenor over Myanmar data disclosures
Norwegian authorities charged Telenor in two Myanmar-related investigations, including alleged disclosures of historical customer traffic data to the military regime.
Global National Telecom Trends
EXA unveils Meridian transatlantic cable
EXA's 6,552km Meridian system is due in Q4 2029 with 24 fibre pairs and more than 500Tbps of design capacity.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
ESA backs CableShield satellite failover trial
ESA is funding CableShield to test automatic satellite backup for subsea-cable outages, with selected priority traffic rerouted when fibre fails.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom
LINX LON2 traffic passes 1Tbps
LINX's LON2 fabric has passed 1Tbps peak traffic after a pricing initiative encouraged members to add a second London peering platform.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom
SES and Elveo plan European D2D satellite manufacturing
SES and Elveo are adding European satellite manufacturing and mobile-roaming work, but have not disclosed a production site, output target or timetable.
North America Datacenter
Vantage closes $2bn development facility
Vantage has secured a five-year revolving facility for early-stage North American data-centre development before individual projects reach construction financing.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom
Openreach says AI prevents 3,000 fibre cancellations
Openreach says its AI tools are helping keep more than 3,000 full-fibre orders from being cancelled each month when installations run into delays or extra engineering work.
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
Sharp opens Japan AI-server orders with Foxconn backing
Sharp is pairing Foxconn's hardware supply with local sales and support as it prepares to deliver AI servers to Japanese organisations from fiscal 2027.
Global National Telecom Trends
Telxius starts 800G terrestrial optics rollout
Telxius is deploying Nokia 800G coherent pluggables across terrestrial networks in Europe, the US and Latin America, with achievable rates depending on each route.
Global Institutional
Cisco patches exploited email-gateway flaw
Cisco has fixed an actively exploited Secure Email Gateway vulnerability, but organisations that were exposed still need to check whether attackers reached the appliance before it was patched.
Latin America and Caribbean Datacenter Trends
Brazil enacts Redata data-centre tax breaks
Brazil's Redata programme cuts taxes on qualifying data-centre equipment while tying the relief to domestic capacity, R&D and sustainability requirements.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Spain starts blocking unregistered SMS sender names
Spain's new SMS sender checks require businesses to register branded sender names and authorise the providers that use them, making provider changes part of delivery continuity.
Europe and Middle East Datacenter
AWS says some Bahrain resources cannot be restored
AWS says some resources held only in Bahrain and one UAE Availability Zone remain inaccessible after conflict damage, exposing the limit of in-region redundancy.
Global National Telecom Trends
GSMA: 3.1bn still do not use mobile internet
GSMA says 3.1 billion people live within mobile broadband coverage but do not use mobile internet, with handset affordability the biggest reported barrier.
North America Datacenter Trends
New York sets $1m-per-MW data-centre benchmark
New York recommends at least $1 million per MW for data-centre community investment, giving municipalities a common starting point for negotiations.
Europe and Middle East Datacenter
Digital Realty enters Türkiye with data-centre JV
Digital Realty is entering Türkiye with Rönesans Infrastructure, starting with a more than 22MW Ankara campus whose first facility is scheduled for 2028.
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
Hitachi Systems, HPE target six-month data-centre delivery
Hitachi Systems and HPE are offering a container data-centre package that can be delivered in as little as six months for standard configurations.