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A technician repairs one amber runtime gate while a small queue waits and two separate service lanes remain healthy

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.

Jul 28, 2026
Five blank request cartridges feed a restored green branching query junction beside a removed amber service clamp

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…

Jul 28, 2026
An engineer places isolation gates across a wide router mesh while a damaged long-haul fibre forces traffic onto amber paths

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…

Jul 28, 2026
Two network engineers pass a glowing fibre spool across a relief map from the Himalayas toward the Bangladesh delta

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…

Jul 28, 2026
Regulators inspect promoted search-result placement and an app storefront route to an outside purchase channel on a split evidence table

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…

Jul 28, 2026
Telecom and optical-network chassis wait in front of staged inventory while technicians install active racks in a factory

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…

Jul 28, 2026
A fibre engineer works at a street cabinet as blue drops reach some houses and a bundle of older copper pairs is removed

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…

Jul 28, 2026
One neutral account hub connects several consumer devices while technicians integrate a small section of mobile network equipment behind glass

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…

Jul 28, 2026
A technician upgrades a suburban cable cabinet beside a home containing an unused gateway, several mobile devices and a streaming television

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…

Jul 28, 2026
A silicon spin-qubit workbench and a superconducting dilution refrigerator remain separated by glass, a sealed case and an unfinished cable bridge

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…

Jul 28, 2026
Four distinct physical work queues hold moderate backlogs before clearing into healthy server racks

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…

Jul 28, 2026
Three neutral AI workflow stations converge on a frosted infrastructure boundary with both amber and green connection lights

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…

Jul 28, 2026
A newly landed submarine cable enters a beach vault and joins several inland backhaul ducts on Puerto Rico's southern coast

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…

Jul 28, 2026
Triathletes swimming, cycling and running beside a digital membership data dashboard connecting the UK Home Nations.

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.

Jul 26, 2026
Prysmian subsea cable burial operation

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.

Jul 26, 2026
Illustration of fibre optic cable manufacturing linked to data-centre infrastructure and global exports

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.

Jul 26, 2026
Editorial graphic showing AT&T fibre and fixed wireless broadband serving homes through fibre lines and a mobile tower

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.

Jul 26, 2026
Editorial graphic showing Flotek Group’s acquisition of Clear Telecom and its communications services in Essex and London

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.

Jul 26, 2026
Editorial graphic showing the Nuvem subsea cable route from South Carolina to Portugal through Bermuda and the Azores

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.

Jul 26, 2026
Illustration of two planned submarine power cables linking Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick

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.

Jul 26, 2026