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Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Qatar’s submarine-cable rules make the access offer the real bottleneck
Qatar’s new landing-station regime puts a practical document between infrastructure and competition: an approved, published offer specifying what an access seeker may request, what it costs and how a dispute proceeds. The rule establishes that interface; the public record does…
ICANN
ICANN’s 2026 gTLD snapshot draws two different regional maps
Reveal Day counted 1,615 applications by region. The same-day statistics page counted 481 applicants. North America represents 53.5% of applications but 41.2% of applicants; Asia/Australia/Pacific accounts for 13.5% of applications and 32.4% of applicants. Those are two views of…
North America Cloud Services Trends
Google Cloud’s 18-hour write disruption exposed a failed routing safeguard
Two days of Cloud Storage write trouble in Iowa were not one undifferentiated regional outage. Google’s final incident report describes a routing optimization that concentrated traffic on a few under-capacity storage nodes, then an incomplete rollback that allowed the imbalance…
Latin America and Caribbean National Telecom Trends
Uruguay’s Fibre Trunk Cuts Exposed a Cross-Layer Dependency
Four terrestrial fibre-trunk cuts on 13 October did more than interrupt domestic transport routes in Uruguay. Their simultaneous effect also constrained access to international submarine-cable capacity reaching Maldonado, showing how a terrestrial failure can become an…
ICANN
ICANN’s DNSSEC automation review separates protocol readiness from registry approval
ICANN’s new security assessment gives registries a conditional technical route for automating DNSSEC delegation-signing records. Its public comment is one step in a permission chain, not an announcement that the service is already approved or deployable.
ICANN
ICANN marks the root KSK transition complete, with two retirement stages still ahead
The root zone began signing with KSK-2024 on 11 October. ICANN’s completion notice is dated four days later, while IANA’s public schedule still gives the previous key a January revocation and a March removal date—and ICANN says it is assessing reports of issues affecting a…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
Australia’s new telco register pushes compliance into the wholesale chain
A provider register becomes a condition of upstream supply, placing routine market-access checks inside wholesale relationships before the system has even commenced.
North America National Telecom Trends
Leaving Canada’s telecom fund does not erase the bill
Canada’s new fund rules give telecom providers three years to pay contributions already recorded against them, even after they lose contributor status. The CRTC also halves the fund’s prescribed balance. The two changes smooth one side of the system while reducing its cash…
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
France’s Public Fibre Networks Get a Common Cost Benchmark — Without a Common Price
Arcep’s proposed MCO model would give operators of France’s publicly initiated fibre networks and commercial operators a shared, network-specific reference for operating and maintenance costs. It could make tariff negotiations more evidence-based, but the draft remains…
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
France’s public fibre gap lands in the wholesale contract
France’s telecom regulator says more than half of its public-initiative fibre networks charge recurring wholesale tariffs below a new estimate of operating costs. Its draft offers a way to reopen the conversation between network owners and service providers, but it does not set a…
CASE FILE
GreenSquareAccord meets lender covenants, but home sales underpin its viability plan
The Regulator of Social Housing has downgraded GreenSquareAccord to G3 for governance and V3 for viability. The grades turn on a gap between what lenders’ covenants currently permit and what the regulator can establish about the landlord’s forecasts, controls and capacity to…
North America Datacenter Trends
FuelCell Energy's 75 MW reservation moves the test to the factory
A Texas data-centre operator has paid for priority access to 75 MW of planned manufacturing capacity while project agreements are still being finalized. The commercial signal is real; the power plant, delivery schedule and operating result are not yet in evidence.
CASE FILE
BEREC chair urges EU to keep competition a standalone Digital Networks Act goal
BEREC Chair Marko Mismas says competition should remain an objective in its own right as the EU rewrites telecom rules. The Commission proposal already lists effective competition separately from industrial competitiveness; the test now lies in the final text and how regulators…
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Swisscom Fibre Ruling: Why the Court Rejected COMCO’s Market Definition
Switzerland’s Federal Administrative Court has overturned a competition ruling against Swisscom over its fibre-network architecture, finding that the regulator defined a market in which the operator could not supply the very product at issue. The judgment removes COMCO’s 2023…
North America Datacenter Trends
Axiom's spin-off is also Flex's refinancing plan for EPC Power
Flex has completed its $4.4 billion acquisition of EPC Power. The harder question now sits in the financing documents: Flex expects the planned Axiom separation to return enough cash to repay short-term acquisition debt, while a separate preferred investment carries its own…
CASE FILE
EU energy revision could turn national plans into investment roadmaps
A Commission initiative expected in the fourth quarter may reshape how national energy and climate plans connect targets, investment and delivery. A European Parliament research briefing sketches possible indicators and follow-up options, but no draft law has settled what…
Latin America and Caribbean Institutional Trends
Five Caribbean islands joined the exchange; local routing is the test
The Eastern Caribbean Internet Exchange now reaches five named islands through a cable operator, a local network and an exchange platform. That is a meaningful extension of regional infrastructure. It does not yet tell readers how much traffic stays local, which island networks…
CASE FILE
SEC proposal would move fund cross-trade checks to compliance officers
The SEC wants to widen the securities that affiliated funds may trade with one another. Its proposal would also shift the quarterly compliance determination from fund boards to chief compliance officers, with annual reviews and reports intended to preserve oversight.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
VodafoneThree changed owners; its network commitments did not
Vodafone’s £4.3 billion buyout ended CK Hutchison’s place in the joint venture. The more consequential test is what can still be measured against the public commitments that survived the change.
North America Institutional Trends
CDC asks who governs public health’s data intermediary layer
A new request for information sketches a national framework for organizations that move health data between sources and public authorities. CDC is asking who should set their responsibilities, safeguards and costs before that framework takes shape.