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Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
Airtel’s spectrum-charge relief is in force, but the appeal is not over
India’s Supreme Court has refused to suspend the Bombay High Court order that removed a retrospective one-time spectrum charge. That keeps immediate collection at bay for Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea, but it is not a final victory: the government’s appeal remains alive…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
Candle’s customer can pay before IPS can book a dollar of IRU revenue
IPS, Inc. has approved an indefeasible-right-of-use contract worth USD98.2 million for part of its interest in the planned Candle submarine cable, alongside a 25-year operations-and-maintenance agreement. The unusual discipline is temporal: customer advances are expected during…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
SoftBank’s Mount Fuji 5G SA depends on a radio path back down the mountain
SoftBank has moved its 2026 Mount Fuji plan into service: Sub6 equipment near the summit is now configured for the operator’s first 5G Standalone provision on the mountain during the climbing season. The harder control surface is not the 5G label. It is a seasonal high-altitude…
North America Datacenter Trends
Amazon has left the Calvert site, not explained where the capital goes
Amazon says it will not proceed with the Calvert Technology Center site in Maryland and, in its first on-record explanation, describes the move as a portfolio-allocation decision rather than a political one. The proposed three-campus, roughly 500 MW concept has left the local…
Latin America and Caribbean National Telecom Trends
Fénix has a Caribbean route on paper, not a live handoff in Curaçao
CANTV and Liberty Networks have launched the Fénix submarine-cable project: a disclosed 378 km link from Camurí, Venezuela, to Willemstad, Curaçao, designed for at least 14 Tbps in each direction. The announcement adds a credible route and terminal concept to Venezuela’s…
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Eutelsat onboards Tototheo for maritime LEO connectivity
Eutelsat partners with Tototheo Global to deliver OneWeb LEO connectivity for maritime, enterprise and government users.
Global National Telecom Trends
HCLTech and Nokia launch AI rApps for 5G automation
HCLTech and Nokia's joint rApps launch puts AI-driven automation onto Nokia's SMO marketplace — a test of whether open, multivendor software can compete with closed vendor stacks. The four use cases target carrier OPEX directly. If live deployments deliver measurable savings, the…
North America National Telecom Trends
Verizon gains Carolina West customers as rural operator closes
Carolina West's closure shows how rural wireless consolidation is moving away from headline M&A deals. Verizon gains a customer pipeline without paying an acquisition price, while a 90,000-user base faces forced migration — the quiet side of US telecom market concentration.
Global Datacenter Trends
Qualcomm targets $15bn data centre revenue
Qualcomm is betting that AI inference efficiency can rival raw compute as the next data centre battleground. Dragonfly and the $3.8bn Modular acquisition give it silicon plus software leverage. Meta's early commitment provides credibility, but the $15bn revenue target will depend…
CASE FILE
Pennsylvania weighs data centre tax breaks and repeal
Pennsylvania is testing two competing visions for data centre policy at once: conditional incentives versus full repeal. The dual-track approach reflects how US states are struggling to balance economic development promises against rising grid and budget pressure — and whether…
Latin America and Caribbean National Telecom Trends
Starlink offers free access after Venezuela quakes
Starlink's emergency internet offer in Venezuela operates without an official licence — a politically delicate move that sidesteps regulatory approval while providing genuine disaster relief.
CASE FILE
SpaceConnect launches NGSO lobby without SpaceX
Amazon and three satellite operators have launched the first dedicated NGSO lobby group without SpaceX at the table. Led by former NTIA head David Redl, SpaceConnect signals that smaller players see spectrum policy as a competitive battleground — not just a technical question.…
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
TIM challenges FiberCop prices after KKR network sale
TIM's legal challenge against FiberCop's pricing is the first public test of how Italy's fibre spinout model works once private equity takes control. The €22bn network sale separated wholesale from retail, but the dispute over whether new rates need regulatory review will shape…
North America Datacenter Trends
Texas city residents oppose potential AI data centre over water use
Victoria has no data centre proposal yet, but water concerns are already organising residents — a pattern that suggests developers may face political headwinds before filing a single permit. The 2 million-gallon-per-day estimate anchors the debate in rural supply security, not…
CASE FILE
Minneapolis approves five-month data centre development pause
Minneapolis is joining a growing list of US cities treating data centre development as a municipal planning question. The five-month pause will produce draft rules on energy, environmental and safety standards — and the exemption threshold for smaller facilities may set a…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
Singtel sells 2.8% Gulf stake for S$1bn
Singtel sells a 2.8% Gulf Development stake for S$1bn, advancing Singtel28 asset recycling and capital return plans.
CASE FILE
FCC restarts spectrum auctions with $3.57bn AWS-3 sale
The FCC defines US spectrum allocation, auction scheduling, and wireless policy affecting mobile operators, new satellite entrants, and network replacement funding.
Global National Telecom Trends
Huawei promotes a layered autonomous network model
Huawei remains a major telecom network vendor whose automation architecture and standards positions can influence operator deployment models.
Global National Telecom Trends
Nokia brings Gemini agents to telco automation
Nokia and Google Cloud embed Gemini AI agents into telco automation to speed troubleshooting and support human-approved network actions.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
RETN adds Lithuania Poland fibre route through Suwałki corridor
RETN adds a Kaunas–Białystok fibre route via Suwałki to improve Lithuania–Poland resilience and route diversity.