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Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
CBH wins RM88m Selangor data-centre power contract
CBH Engineering will design and build a 275kV consumer landing station for a Selangor data centre under an RM88.05 million contract.
Asia-Pacific Cloud Services Trends
Gorilla's Yotta deliveries do not settle the cash clock
Equipment is moving into an Indian AI infrastructure programme. The commercially important interval is the one between paying for capacity, putting it to work and collecting from customers.
ICANN
IAB Reappoints David Lawrence; Its ICANN Handoff Notices Disagree
Three public notices now describe one liaison transition. The first put ICANN87 in November. The second put it in October. The third named David Lawrence for another term but did not say when that term takes effect. ICANN’s own calendar and Bylaws resolve most of the puzzle, yet…
ICANN
At ccNSO, Nominating a Colleague Can Still Be Self-Nomination
Five Council seats are entering selection. The rules distinguish an institution putting someone forward from support that comes from outside it.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Bouygues Telecom's Cloud TV test lies in what remains
Kaltura's new platform is live, with Aurora Networks leading its integration. The economic question is which work can be retired and who will maintain the delivery interfaces that still matter.
CASE FILE
IGF’s 80-Workshop Baseline Has Two Weighting Stages—and a Human Decision After Them
The September programme papers make selection more intelligible. They also show why a ranking, a recommended slate and an approved agenda need separate records.
North America Institutional Trends
Chime’s $590 Million Bank Deal Has an 18-Month Contract Fallback
Chime wants to replace a sponsor-bank relationship with ownership. Yet its merger agreement also prices the possibility that regulators prevent that change: under a narrow failure pathway, three agreements with Stride Bank do not expire on schedule but roll forward for at least…
North America Regional ISP Trends
Clearwave's Visionary deal has a local construction test
A proposed 17-state broadband platform brings a wider field for capital allocation. Its value will depend on turning local construction and serviceable addresses into durable customer connections.
Asia-Pacific Institutional Trends
SOI Asia Signs a Wider Mission in Bandung as Work Spreads Across Campuses
The 2026 declaration puts social resilience alongside academic networking. The collaboration’s earlier equipment retirement offers a practical test of what can endure.
Global Cloud Services Trends
Cloud SQL's regional gate leaves a mixed control map
Google Cloud has made regional Admin API endpoints generally available for Cloud SQL for MySQL. A narrower entry point still leaves customers managing wider dependencies.
Global Cloud Services Trends
Let’s Encrypt’s 99.21% Issuance Share Is Not a Deployment Share
A new IP-certificate study makes concentration visible. Its published analysis also shows why a certificate count cannot stand in for the services that depend on it.
IETF
IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Puts Three Actions Behind One Boolean
A boolean is the smallest possible management choice. In the IPv6 Neighbor Discovery YANG model now in IETF Last Call, one such switch can authorize a much larger sequence: record a duplicate-address event, discard the triggering message and block the host that sent it. The draft…
Global Cloud Services Trends
Google Cloud lets reservations change who can use them
New share-type conversion can put reserved compute to work across projects. Taking capacity back becomes a different decision once other teams depend on it.
Global Cloud Services Trends
Cloudflare Keeps a Post-Quantum API That No Longer Changes the Setting
Automatic Key Exchange separates algorithm selection from algorithm restrictions. A surviving legacy endpoint no longer controls either in the way its old name suggests.
North America Institutional Trends
GTS’s $400 Million SPAC Deal Has No Minimum-Cash Floor
The proposed NMP combination is presented as a route into public markets for a telecom contractor. Its harder arithmetic starts elsewhere: redeemable trust money, seller debt that survives closing, preferred capital that compounds, and a small class of shares carrying twenty…
ICANN
ICANN's NomCom Invites Process Advice, Not Candidate Testimonials
The 2027 consultation puts contributors' views on the public record. It does not turn the selection process into an endorsement campaign.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
Telkom brings Digiserve closer without buying a new business
The proposed share transfer changes where an existing subsidiary reports. Growth will have to come from customers, not a shorter ownership chain.
Story
RIPE Atlas's Upgrade Reminder Still Needs a Maintenance Route
The planned notices put old software versions in front of probe hosts. They do not make every host's installation path the same.
Europe and Middle East Cloud Services Trends
COS buys Fiber Flow while Vinnergi keeps the customer desk
The software changes hands; the Nordic delivery partner stays. For broadband operators, continuity will depend on how local support requests reach the new product owner.
Story
ARIN's Smaller Slate Keeps the Withdrawals in View
The September candidate list offers a useful governance test: account for the people who leave the field without inventing the reason they left.