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History
Two Links to Stockholm, One Missing at Home: Estonia’s 1992 Internet
A 64 kbps satellite link brought TCP/IP from Tallinn to Stockholm in 1992. A second link served Tartu. The striking part of the story is what did not yet connect the two Estonian cities.
Asia-Pacific Institutional Trends
Tasmania’s New Child Commission Keeps Regulator Powers in a Separate Legal Role
The 8 October launch brought children’s-rights advocacy and safety oversight under one agency, while statutes preserve the Regulator’s independent decision-making and leave a possible combined office uncommenced.
Asia-Pacific Regional ISP Trends
WorldLink's IPv6 milestone makes traffic the real test
WorldLink reports that about 70% of its traffic uses IPv6. The share says more than an enabled-subscriber count, but no published denominator or observation window makes it a comparable performance score.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Why EXA wants UK land powers for a fibre network already in service
The fibre can remain in place while the company responsible for it changes. EXA Infrastructure UK Limited is asking Ofcom to apply the Electronic Communications Code to a network that already carries traffic, including infrastructure held elsewhere in the EXA Group. The…
Europe and Middle East Institutional Trends
Ofwat’s Chair Is Reappointed on a Deadline Set by Its Successor
Iain Coucher’s second term at Ofwat runs until a new integrated water regulator is established, with 30 June 2029 as the outside date. Ofwat keeps its legal powers in the interim; the promised transition plan is meant to show who carries each responsibility through the handover.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
TalkTalk notice brings an unlisted telecom-continuity ground into UK merger review
The UK’s 5 October notice treats continuity of telecom supply as a public-interest consideration even though section 58 of the Enterprise Act did not then list it. The CMA must report by 19 October; the government’s separate duty to finalise the consideration is framed as “as…
North America National Telecom Trends
SpaceX's 800 MHz deal inherits an FCC deployment test
The proposed sale from Grain Management would change who holds the spectrum. It would not erase the FCC's license-by-license build-out rules, and it does not yet authorize satellite service in the band.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
WRC-27’s satellite IoT plan meets Britain’s rail and emergency spectrum
The next World Radiocommunication Conference will study new spectrum for low-data-rate satellite IoT. In Britain, the same bands already sit beside DECT, a planned railway network and emergency-service gateways. The question is whether new satellite use can be made compatible…
CASE FILE
EU Standards Access Plan Shifts the Funding Burden
The European Commission wants standards referenced in EU law to be freely accessible online. Its impact assessment puts business savings near EUR 30 million a year and possible revenue losses for national standards bodies at up to the same amount.
Europe and Middle East Institutional Trends
BEREC's 2027 draft separates planned work from future options
BEREC has opened a month-long consultation on the work it proposes to pursue in 2027. The draft is most revealing where it draws a line: between work already inside the coming year's programme and ideas retained only as possibilities for a later cycle.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
ComReg’s fibre margin test would follow the whole contract
Ireland’s draft would assess Eircom’s FTTP wholesale backhaul offers as complete commercial arrangements, not just as individual product prices. Only long, large contracts priced below a cost benchmark would face prior approval.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
Sri Lanka’s mobile market must count switches, not SIMs
Sri Lanka reported 135.5 mobile subscriptions for every 100 residents at the end of 2025. That ratio signals widespread multi-SIM use, not proof that customers can readily move between providers. TRCSL’s draft retail and wholesale remedies now face a more useful test: do people…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
New Zealand’s telecom rule shift bets on tower sharing
New Zealand’s amended standards make more low-impact telecom construction possible without site-by-site consent. Their projected savings from fewer poles depend on operators choosing to share infrastructure, while councils take on more compliance monitoring.
Europe and Middle East Institutional Trends
A wallet launch needs a trust handover test
Europe can meet its end-2026 wallet milestone and still leave a harder question unanswered: if a certification body or certification scheme changes, can users and relying services follow the assurance without having to trust that the incumbent institution will stay in place?
Story
APNIC makes no consensus call on an IP-abuse definition
Prop-172 would define technical abuse tied to Internet number resources, but APNIC 62 left it on the Policy SIG mailing list. The remaining question is who can assess a response when the resource holder and complainant disagree.
Asia-Pacific Institutional Trends
Australia’s proposed power-contract mechanism needs a credible exit test
Australia’s draft Electricity Services Entry Mechanism would turn long-range reliability and emissions goals into contracts whose costs flow through the National Electricity Market. The design question is not only how to finance new supply, but what evidence would let the…
History
From KAIST to the NCA: KRNIC’s Move and Independence
Korea’s early Internet registry changed institutional homes before it became an independent foundation. A September 1994 meeting record captures the handoff in one line—and in a changed nameserver address.
Global Institutional Trends
The BIS’s 46.4% AI-finance figure maps ties, not recycled cash
The Bank for International Settlements has put a striking number on the overlap between AI investment and trade. What the number measures depends on a definition that spans five years and counts an entire funding round when only one investor has a commercial link to the target.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Ofcom paused the SMS cap; the exit route is still unproven
Ofcom has left the proposed wholesale price cap on the shelf while four operators hold to price commitments through 2028. The market test now is whether senders can move enough real traffic to alternatives to change the bargaining position at the point where each message still…
History
VSNL’s 1995 Internet Gateway Still Needed India’s Local Telephone Network
The gateway connected India’s commercial Internet service to the world. Reaching a customer still required a domestic path: a telephone line, a leased circuit, or the public data network that carried traffic onward to a service node.