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Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Ofcom’s spectrum test licence needs a commercial bridge
Britain issues hundreds of temporary spectrum licences each year, yet a successful test still leaves its operator facing a fresh authorisation decision before ordinary commercial service. Ofcom’s review asks how to close that gap while protecting incumbents and keeping future…
ICANN
Neither House can choose the next GNSO Chair alone
Samantha Demetriou and Vivek Goyal will face the Council’s 21 October vote at ICANN87 under a rule that requires 60% support in both the Contracted Parties House and the Non-Contracted Parties House.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Poland’s draft makes six hours a test of which mobile sites count
A proposed Polish power rule ties longer backup at mobile sites to the operator’s own view of which locations matter most to continuity. The hard question is how that classification will be evidenced.
North America National Telecom Trends
Canada’s porting rule closes the gap after a number moves
A telephone number can move to a new provider before the old reseller’s billing and routing records catch up. Canada’s latest rule shortens that notification lag, while leaving a harder question—who may verify a residential customer when the upstream carrier’s database names the…
ICANN
A DNSSEC comment asks ICANN to align its DS report with RFC 10026
A 16 October submission points to a registry-lock rule that the June assessment describes inconsistently. The distinction matters before ICANN turns its review into requirements for registry operators.
Latin America and Caribbean National Telecom Trends
Turks and Caicos turns satellite access into two different bills
Turks and Caicos has made satellite licensing more concrete by separating permission to provide a network or service from permission to use spectrum. Its new fee schedule makes that distinction financial as well as legal: one charge follows revenue, another follows the frequency…
ICANN
IAB seeks broader voting and appeal safeguards for root governance
A 15 October letter asks ICANN to settle representation, voting, appeals and funding controls before the proposed Root Server System Council is chartered. The current model gives operators 12 of 24 votes and leaves some safeguards for later phases.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
Australia’s Telco Reform Has Two Gates—and Three Clocks
Australia’s consumer-safeguards bill joins direct enforcement of registered codes to a separate provider-registration backstop. The practical change depends on when each part can actually be used.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Italy’s reversible 3G test carries the full shutdown burden
AGCOM has authorized Wind Tre to block UMTS access on selected customer profiles while leaving the radio carrier on air. The regulator says a switch that can be reversed inside the network still counts as a real loss for users while it is active.
ICANN
RySG urges ICANN to resource a staged root-server governance launch
The registries group wants the ICANN Board to adopt the RSS Governance Working Group’s model, support a staffed start and set target timelines. The Board’s public preview still describes continued discussion, leaving implementation—not a new operational power—as the immediate…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
Australia’s telco law removes the first compliance order
A bill reported passed by Parliament would let ACMA enforce registered industry codes without first directing a provider to comply. Its real test is whether faster intervention comes with visible commencement rules, fair registration decisions and evidence of outcomes.
North America National Telecom Trends
Two Days to Notify. No New Chance to Validate.
Canada’s telecom regulator shortened the reseller’s wait for a port-out notice while declining to require a residential validation handoff. The change tightens the record after a number moves; it leaves open whether the party holding the customer relationship can help prevent a…
North America National Telecom Trends
The CRTC Marked the Builds Complete. The Holdback Still Had a Year to Go.
The CRTC accepted evidence that two funded broadband builds were complete and services were being offered. Its order left a different test ahead: each operator must show a full year of operation against the service conditions before the retained funding can be released.
CASE FILE
Five law scholars dispute SEC’s case for rescinding shareholder-proposal rule
A 13 October comment says Rule 14a-8 governs federal proxy disclosure rather than state-law corporate rights; other filings ask for a longer review or support repeal with safeguards.
Africa National Telecom Trends
Vodacom’s KwaZulu-Natal billion-rand plan needs a delivery ledger
Vodacom has announced another billion-rand network programme for KwaZulu-Natal. The useful test is no longer how large the cheque sounds, but whether residents can trace it from planned radio, transmission and backup-power spend to dated assets and measured service.
IETF
The Model Passed Validation. RFC 10057 Still Awaited Approval.
The RFC Editor queue showed a clean YANG validation for revision 44, but the proposed RFC was still in final review with two author approvals unrecorded and a possible cluster hold.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
ACCC’s mobile inquiry opens two evidence channels, not a verdict
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has opened a discussion-paper round and a consumer survey on mobile services. Their separate deadlines matter less than the distinction between lived experience and the market evidence needed to justify a wholesale-access…
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Ooredoo’s 5G+ launch is a product footprint, not a national speed shift
Ooredoo Qatar’s 15 October launch announcement describes higher speeds, capacity and lower latency. Its live product page gives the more useful boundary: selected locations in Doha and Sealine, five eligible Data SIM+ plans, and two supported hotspot models. That makes the launch…
Story
APNIC Counsel Confirms Recusal Practice for Electoral Committee Appointments
APNIC’s general counsel says Executive Council members eligible for re-election recuse themselves when the Council chooses the committee overseeing that election. A published minute records three abstentions; the posted by-laws assign the appointment to the Council but do not…
IETF
RFC 10065 Standardizes the Group ID, Not Its Meaning
A common RADIUS attribute can carry a user-group label into an access-control system. RFC 10065 still leaves group definition and the mapping to packet fields to each deployment.