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Europe and Middle East National Telecom
Gamma's UK SME gross profit falls 7%
Gamma added cloud and fibre volumes in the UK, but lower pricing on new and renewed business outweighed that growth in the first half.
Global Cloud Services Trends
Alibaba Cloud, Cambricon join PyTorch Platinum tier
Alibaba Cloud and Cambricon gain PyTorch governance roles, while real-world workload performance remains the practical test.
Asia-Pacific Institutional Trends
Hydrosat, Kazakhstan explore thermal satellite constellation
The proposed constellation could give Kazakhstan more control over thermal observations, while Hydrosat would retain its underlying technology and software.
Global Cloud Services Trends
Beamr's archive pitch puts selection before scale
A planned IBC demonstration joins video enhancement to adaptive encoding. The commercial question is which footage deserves the work—and what counts as an acceptable result.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
Malaysia telcos enter first full DNB year in 2027
MBSB expects service revenue growth and cost savings to help Maxis and CelcomDigi absorb the first full-year financial effect of DNB.
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
Pekat discloses RM57m Johor data-centre contracts
Three electrical-protection packages take Pekat's work through installation, testing and commissioning, with completion targets extending into 2027.
History
The Cell Carried a Label. It Did Not Carry a Verdict: RFC 1954
In Ipsilon's 1996 ATM design, a flow label did not decorate an IPv4 packet. It changed the virtual channel and, for two flow types, changed which IPv4 fields crossed the link at all. That economy made forwarding state executable—and made the limits of the resulting evidence…
North America Institutional Trends
Rigetti’s CHIPS Cash Comes in Tranches. The Shares Do Not
Rigetti’s new federal package puts two nearly identical $100 million values on different clocks. The cash depends on technical milestones; the 7.74 million-share block is issued as one instrument, then constrained by separate transfer, voting and repurchase rules.
Global National Telecom Trends
Nokia opens hosted mobile-core test environment
Operators can test new mobile-core software in Nokia's hosted environment before deciding whether it is worth a larger trial on their own network.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom
Telkom targets more external sales for InfraNexia
Telkom wants outside customers to provide a larger share of InfraNexia's revenue as it separates the fibre business and expands wholesale sales.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Four telcos weigh joint EU satellite-spectrum bid
Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Vodafone, and Telefónica are reportedly discussing a joint bid for EU spectrum that could support satellite-to-phone services.
Africa National Telecom Trends
Ghana plans excavation checks after 8,578 fibre cuts
Road works caused 49% of Ghana's reported fibre cuts through August, prompting a proposed pre-excavation coordination process.
Global Cloud Services Trends
HYCU's Azure DevOps backup must restore a working system
The new service protects more than source-code repositories. Its commercial test is whether the dependencies around those files can return in a state a development team can actually use.
Europe and Middle East Cloud Services Trends
US challenges UK social-media news prominence plan
Washington has objected to a UK proposal that could require platforms to make selected news providers more prominent in social-media feeds.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
UK allocates £2.8bn to space connectivity programmes
The funding covers programmes including SKYNET, C-LEO and £57 million for better rail connectivity under the UK's new space strategy.
Global National Telecom Trends
GSMA urges governments to release upper 6GHz spectrum
The GSMA is pressing governments to make upper 6GHz spectrum available for mobile networks as countries take different approaches to the band.
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
Firmus signs OpenAI deal for two Malaysian AI factories
OpenAI will take dedicated compute from two planned Malaysian sites as Firmus expands its regional AI infrastructure.
North America Datacenter Trends
South Korea disputes reported $22.3bn Texas gas deal
Seoul says talks continue over a reported 6.3GW Texas power project intended to serve AI data centres, with no final terms confirmed.
Africa National Telecom
Telecel completes 1,890 4G site upgrades in Ghana
Telecel has completed about 70% of its 2026 4G site-upgrade target in Ghana, with 808 sites still to be upgraded.
Latin America and Caribbean Datacenter Trends
Pampa studies 500MW Neuquén data-centre project
Prospective investors want a 20–40MW first phase beside Pampa's Loma de la Lata power plant before considering a larger build.