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The ITU Can Hear the Satellites. China and Russia Want It to Watch Where They Fly.
A new conference proposal asks the radio regulator to study the actual orbital layers behind low-orbit satellite filings. The signals have a map; the spacecraft need one too.
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The Moon's Radio Queue Is Forming. China and Russia Want to Write the Line Rules.
The ITU is already studying lunar frequencies. A new proposal from Beijing and Moscow asks its November conference to settle a bigger question: how every country gets a fair place in that queue.
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The ITU's Treaty Review Has a Calendar Problem. Four Countries Want to Cancel the Reminder.
Australia, Japan, New Zealand and Tonga have asked the ITU to retire its recurring review mandate for international telecom rules. The expert group has delivered its report; agreement on what to do next remains absent.
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RIPE NCC’s sanctions queue has 39 alerts waiting to be investigated
The latest quarterly report counts 2,339 alerts across several different states. The sharpest change is a line that was empty in July: 39 cases are now marked “not yet started”.
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RIPE NCC Has 39 Sanctions Alerts Waiting to Be Opened
RIPE-868’s 1 October snapshot shows 39 alerts not yet under investigation and 119 already being investigated. Most potential matches are cleared as false positives, but RIPE NCC pauses new-resource and transfer requests while a match remains unresolved.
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The Radio Complaint Has a Folder. Thirty-Nine Governments Want a Door That Opens.
Persistent interference can survive reports, reminders and another board meeting. A 39-government ITU proposal would carry unresolved cases to the Council, with a record of what failed along the way.
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The ITU’s AI Talk Has Finally Reached the Network Rack
China, India and Viet Nam want the telecom agency’s AI resolution to cover safe applications, standards and the people who will run them. A conference slogan is about to meet a switchboard.
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The Network Went Cloud-Native. The Training Manual Stayed in 2014.
Qatar wants the ITU’s old software-defined-networking brief to teach operators how to migrate through NFV and cloud-native systems. Its proposal spends more ink on workshops and legacy coexistence than on the buzzwords.
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ARIN’s Election Is a 675-Member Roll Call. Blank Ballots Count.
A ballot is doing membership work this year. For leaders, the practical question is whether the person authorized to submit it has an organizational decision to carry out.
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The Cable, the Cloud and the Power Plug Share One Failure Map.
A UAE draft would make the ITU treat cables, data centres, exchanges, cooling and power as one continuity problem. It also asks for regular reports built from voluntary accounts of what went wrong.
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One Door for a Broken Cable? Three Governments Put It on the ITU Desk.
Brazil, Kazakhstan and the Philippines want cable-repair coordination to have a front door. Their proposed ITU resolution names the offices that should promote it, while leaving the actual door for governments and operators to build.
Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
One customer books Scotland’s £300m AI-centre capacity for 15 years
A £202m National Wealth Fund guarantee sits inside DataVita’s roughly £300m debt facility. The full capacity of the two financed data centres is contracted to CoreWeave under a 15-year lease.
North America National Telecom Trends
The FCC Found 215 MHz for Rockets. Its Bands Add Up to 210.
Three allocations, two coordination desks and launch windows that move with the weather: the FCC’s space-launch spectrum question is an operating schedule disguised as a MHz debate.
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Fourteen Research Nodes Are Live. The Contract Is Still Making Its Rounds.
Europe has switched on a federation of research services. Its operators can count the nodes and the services; the binding framework for keeping them together is still moving through the room.
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The Court Is Blacklisted. Its Login Screen Has a License.
Washington put the International Criminal Court on a sanctions list, then issued a license for its digital plumbing. Brussels has now told European operators to keep serving it. The small print decides which wires stay live.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
The Cable Is Fine. Britain Wants a Crime for the Plot.
A UK White Paper would reach hostile preparation around subsea cables before an outage. Its sharpest unfinished line separates an attack survey from an ordinary one.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Hampshire’s Fibre Contract Shrunk. Which Doors Changed Hands?
BDUK cut the subsidised Hampshire build after commercial plans expanded. Its latest contract table counts more recorded construction; the address handover remains the question.
Global Datacenter Trends
SLB’s data-centre business is booming. Its profit has no separate column.
Data Center Solutions brought in $230 million in the third quarter, 76% more than a year earlier. SLB has still tucked the business inside “All Other,” where its profit shares a room with two unrelated operations.
Europe and Middle East Institutional Trends
Ofgem Wants a Late Fee for the Grid. Some Transmission Contracts Say £0.
A missed connection date can leave a project paying for an idle site while the network’s contractual meter runs at £0 a day. Ofgem wants a sharper bill—and a rule that does not reward safer, later dates.
Europe and Middle East Institutional Trends
Britain’s AI Biosecurity Lab Has £100m. The Referees Are Still Offstage
The government has named the money, the models and the agencies around its new lab. The people meant to advise its science have yet to be named.