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Global Cloud Services Trends
DigitalOcean identified Agent Runtime HTTP 500 errors but had not resolved them
DigitalOcean began investigating HTTP 500 responses from Agent Platform requests at 18:31 UTC and said at 19:44 UTC that the issue was identified and a fix was being implemented. Agentic Inference Cloud Agent Runtime was affected; no resolution was posted by 03:43 UTC on 28 July.

Global Cloud Services Trends
GitHub resolved a 16-minute GraphQL incident before explaining its scope
GitHub reported degraded API-request performance from 03:53:19 UTC, posted mitigation at 04:09:01 and resolution at 04:09:10—about 16 minutes. The incident title named GraphQL API requests while the update text referred to API Requests more broadly; magnitude and cause were not…

NANOG
A NANOG thread says 300 IS-IS routers are the easy question
Three hundred is a count, not a design. A late-indexed NANOG reply completed an operator exchange in which the short answer was that a flat IS-IS Level 2 domain can carry that scale; the more consequential answer was that acceptable failure scope, repair time and…

SANOG
NPIX closes the Kathmandu host week as SANOG’s next meeting moves to Dhaka
NPIX and npNOG brought SANOG 44 to Kathmandu after four days of local workshops. The useful outcome at the closing plenary was not ceremonial: the regional meeting passed to Dhaka for SANOG45, alongside bdNOG23, moving the next agenda-setting opportunity from one national…

Europe and Middle East Cloud Services Trends
Google’s €890m DMA bill prices two different distribution advantages
The European Commission has attached separate penalties to the two places where Google can shape a transaction before it happens: discovery in Search and the route from an app to a cheaper offer outside Play. The combined number is €890 million, but the economic finding is not…

Global National Telecom Trends
Nokia’s €2.8bn AI order book arrives before the cash
Nokia has found a fast-growing customer class in AI and Cloud, but its second quarter shows why orders, accounting profit and cash cannot be treated as the same result. The company expects only about half of €2.8 billion of new orders to become revenue within 12 months, while…

Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
BT’s fibre footprint is growing faster than its line base
Openreach added 574,000 fibre connections in the quarter and took its FTTP take-up rate to 40%, yet its total broadband line count fell by 192,000. BT’s migration is working as an engineering programme; the commercial test is whether higher-value fibre can outrun an expected loss…

North America National Telecom Trends
T-Mobile’s accounts slowed while revenue per account kept rising
T-Mobile US added 277,000 postpaid accounts in the second quarter, 13% fewer than a year earlier, but monthly postpaid revenue per account rose 2% to $152.91. The company’s raised cash guidance therefore rests more on monetising a larger relationship than on accelerating the…

North America National Telecom Trends
Comcast’s broadband cash engine is shrinking as its alternatives demand more capital
Comcast lost 167,000 domestic residential broadband customers in the second quarter while wireless added 448,000 lines and Peacock reached a quarterly Adjusted EBITDA profit. The portfolio is diversifying, but the replacement businesses do not yet erase the pressure on broadband…

Global Cloud Services Trends
IBM is buying control of a quantum research stack without revealing its price
IBM has signed a definitive agreement to acquire HRL Laboratories from Boeing and General Motors. The deal brings silicon-spin qubits, sensing, materials, cryogenics, controls, interconnects and packaging under one buyer, but the financial terms are undisclosed and the…

Global Cloud Services Trends
GitHub’s 105-minute incident turned one latency source into four work queues
A major GitHub incident affected Actions, Issues, Webhooks and Pull Requests for 1 hour 45 minutes 20 seconds. Slow job starts, stale search and backlogs did not merely delay individual clicks: they separated code, automation, event delivery and review into queues that teams had…

Global Cloud Services Trends
OpenAI’s cross-product errors exposed a reliability boundary below its own services
OpenAI reported elevated errors across listed API, ChatGPT and Codex components and said it was implementing mitigation with a downstream infrastructure provider. At the fixed 17:23:49.505 UTC reporting cutoff, the incident remained identified and unresolved, while the vendor…

North America National Telecom Trends
Claro’s $35 million Ponce landing adds a route without proving independence
Claro Puerto Rico has funded a $35 million extension of the AMX-1 submarine system to Ponce, creating the island’s first reported cable landing on the southern coast. The new geographic entry point can diversify access and support wholesale capacity, but it does not by itself…

Europe and Middle East Institutional
British Triathlon launches shared member-data system
British Triathlon has brought member data from four organisations into one system, replacing separate records and working practices.

Europe and Middle East Institutional
Prysmian deploys new subsea cable burial tool
Prysmian’s new plough can bury submarine power cables up to five metres below the seabed where route conditions require deeper protection.

Asia-Pacific National Telecom
HFCL profit rebounds as fibre exports rise
HFCL is expanding fibre and data-centre connectivity manufacturing after exports helped lift its quarterly revenue and profit.

North America National Telecom
AT&T records 646,000 fibre and fixed wireless additions
AT&T’s second-quarter broadband growth came from both fibre and Internet Air, giving the operator two ways to add home internet connections.

Europe and Middle East National Telecom
Flotek acquires Clear Telecom in 16th deal
Flotek’s 16th acquisition adds Clear Telecom’s Essex-based IT, communications and connectivity business to its UK managed-services group.

Global Cloud Services
Google connects Nuvem cable to Portugal
Google’s connection of Nuvem at Sines completes a key landing milestone, but the cable’s full operating status and usable capacity remain undisclosed.

North America National Telecom Trends
Canada funds development of two PEI power cables
Canada has committed C$5.9 million to advance two planned submarine power cables between Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick.
