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Asia-Pacific Institutional Trends
Papua adds temporary broadband at Lake Sentani Festival
Papua and Telkom used three load-balanced IndiBiz links to support connectivity during the Lake Sentani Festival.
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
LG Uplus forms alliance for 100MW modular AI data centres
LG Uplus and four construction partners will develop modular designs for 100MW-class AI data centres and conversions of existing buildings.
North America Cloud Services Trends
Zscaler gives its smaller-business push a channel route
Its Carahsoft expansion pairs standard bundles with repeatable deployment work. Dedicated enterprise sellers show where that model stops.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
XLSMART Surabaya 5G exceeds 1,200 base stations
XLSMART says more than 1,200 5G base stations support Surabaya, while its national footprint now covers over 50 cities and regencies.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom
Claron Fibreoptics targets 300,000km cable output
Claron Fibreoptics plans to double annual optical-fibre cable capacity to 300,000km over the next year as it targets BharatNet and FTTH demand.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom
Jio marks 10 years with 533.3 million subscribers
Jio marks a decade with 533.3 million subscribers and a network spanning 4G, 5G, fibre, and fixed wireless.
North America Institutional Trends
SPP keeps East grid under Resource Advisory
Southwest Power Pool kept its East Balancing Authority Area under a Resource Advisory through 6 September amid severe heat and potentially higher electricity demand.
North America Institutional Trends
NOAA reroutes GOES data after NWAVE outage
A 2-hour 13-minute NWAVE outage disrupted GOES-18 and GOES-19 data distribution before NOAA rerouted the feed through WCDAS.
Global Cloud Services Trends
F5 resolves Global Log Receiver degradation
F5 resolved a Global Log Receiver degradation affecting one customer, while application traffic and Distributed Cloud Console services remained operational.
North America Institutional Trends
ChargePoint’s 38% Gross Margin Includes a One-Time Tariff Refund
ChargePoint has finally put a record gross margin next to improving revenue and lower operating costs. Four points of that margin, however, came from refunds of tariffs paid in earlier periods. The refund is real economics, not an accounting trick; it is also a receipt that…
North America Cloud Services Trends
Cloudflare restores R2 after regional 503 errors
Cloudflare restored R2 in Eastern North America after a roughly three-and-a-half-hour incident caused elevated 503 errors for customers in the region.
North America Cloud Services Trends
Azure Databricks reports two Central US compute incidents
Two Central US incidents disrupted Azure Databricks cluster starts, notebooks and jobs on 5 September, with both services later restored.
ICANN
ICANN’s UA Guidelines Give AI Two Jobs. One Metric Cannot Measure Both
An AI assistant can suggest a better email validator. An AI-powered service can also reject the very address that validator was meant to admit. Those are opposite positions in the same control loop. ICANN’s Universal Acceptance working group now says its final guidance was…
North America Cloud Services Trends
Samsara brings fuel decisions closer to the payment terminal
Its new Fuel Command Center joins savings estimates, route advice and Coast card controls. The buyer still has to decide which signals should stop a purchase.
Global Cloud Services Trends
GitLab’s Flex commitments still need a customer choice
A US$40.4m unallocated balance exposes the gap between winning a software budget and knowing which services will earn it.
Story
RIPE NCC Publishes in Eight Languages. English Still Has Final Say
RIPE NCC now advertises information in eight languages and is recruiting community volunteers to translate material about its Information Services. The invitation broadens access, but the Language Centre’s own disclaimer fixes a sharp boundary: translated pages are informational…
Global Datacenter Trends
VNET’s 96.3% Commitment Still Leaves a 226MW Move-In Gap
VNET has almost sold out the wholesale capacity it has already put into service. It has not yet activated all of it. At 30 June, 970MW was committed under effective customer agreements while 744MW was being utilized. The 226MW between those states is where an impressive order…
CASE FILE
W3C Calls Its 2026 Survey Anonymous. Both Forms Still Ask for an Email
An anonymous questionnaire can ask hard questions because the answer is not supposed to point back to the person. W3C’s new member and wider-community surveys make that promise, then each invites respondents to leave an email address for a follow-up interview. Nothing public…
North America Institutional Trends
ITG’s US$72.4m Free Cash Flow Excludes Its US$47.0m Operating Cash Use
ITG reported US$72.4 million of free cash flow for the first half of 2026 while its cash-flow statement recorded US$47.0 million used by operations. Both numbers are disclosed correctly, but they answer different questions. ITG defines free cash flow as adjusted EBITDA minus…
Story
ARIN Lets You Name a ROA. Its Online Search Still Ignores the Name
ARIN Lets You Name a ROA. Its Online Search Still Ignores the Name intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure consequences that may follow. The…