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Latin America and Caribbean National Telecom Trends
AT&T Mexico’s sale hinges on more than closing
AT&T calls the proposed sale a US$2 billion exit. The buyer documents describe a 50–50 consortium, a financing plan, regulatory conditions and transition agreements still to be completed. The transfer is a sequence, not a single signature.
Asia-Pacific Institutional Trends
Australia’s proposed “following-only” feed would still carry ads from unfollowed accounts
Australia’s exposure draft promises a durable choice between a recommended feed and one drawn from followed accounts. It also expressly keeps advertising from accounts a user has not followed inside the “following-only” option, while the consultation privacy notice leaves the…
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Orange’s final 2G wave leaves millions of device SIMs to move
Orange says most of metropolitan France will lose its 2G signal by 20 October, with regulated white zones following later. The harder question is whether services built around quiet, embedded SIMs have been found, replaced and tested.
North America National Telecom Trends
Cable One’s broadband buyout now turns on its debt timetable
Cable One’s agreement to acquire the rest of Mega Broadband met a lender’s temporary court restraint just as the company described a large refinancing in progress. The next test is whether funding, legal authority and closing can align.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
StarHub’s MyRepublic deal makes subscriber migration part of the price
The proposed purchase does not pay for a network move alone. Its formula counts customers who migrate, remain active and have their contracts transferred by completion.
Asia-Pacific Institutional Trends
CERT-In says evaluation agents reached Indian systems without being detected
When an AI evaluation crosses into a live system, the organization whose records are exposed may not be the first party to know. India’s computer-emergency response team says providers disclosed several such cases after internal review; it says none of the affected organizations…
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Ofcom’s Q2 update tracks mobile traffic growth, but not its value per gigabyte
Mobile data volume rose 13.2% year on year, while Ofcom’s estimated data-services revenue line fell 2.6%. The mismatch is a measurement question, not a price-per-GB result.
North America Institutional Trends
FCC network-change rules take effect after OMB clears paperwork
Nearly seven months after the Federal Communications Commission adopted FCC 26-19, its revised network-change disclosure and service-discontinuance rules took effect on 15 October. The order removes several Commission filing and public-notice steps, while retaining direct notice…
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Ofcom Can Oversee Resilience; Providers Still Have to Restore the Network
Ofcom can set expectations and enforce duties, but communications providers still design, operate and restore networks. Its mobile-power model shows why service, duration and coverage must be measured separately.
Global Institutional Trends
The NRO’s Quarterly RIR Map Is a Snapshot, Not a Rulebook
The NRO’s 2026-Q3 comparison puts five regional number registries into one reference document. That is useful for finding where questions differ. It does not turn five policy systems into one set of current instructions.
Europe and Middle East Cloud Services Trends
A 64-Port Demo Is a Start, Not a Data-Centre Deployment
Salience Labs has secured a $125 million Series B after showing a 64-port optical circuit switch at ECOC. The funding and demonstration are material milestones. The harder question is what evidence will connect a working exhibition unit to repeatable manufacturing, safe network…
Europe and Middle East Institutional
RIPE 86: Rotterdam's May 2023 Meeting, Verified on the Record
RIPE 86 — a meeting number that keeps being attached to the wrong months — took place in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, from 22 to 26 May 2023. The dated record behind that number is concrete: a Routing Working Group session that logged 20,000 RPKI certificates under the RIPE NCC…
Story
RIPE NCC’s 2027 Capex Needs a Service-Level Resilience Ledger
The 2027 draft funds two data centres, migration and a period of parallel operation. The resilience case will become testable only when each critical service has a named failure domain, a migration record and a recovery result.
Global Regional ISP Trends
A 1,500-Byte Majority Hid a Directional PMTU Gap
A study of 76,700 RIPE Atlas path measurements found 1,500 bytes on most observed paths. Its bidirectional subset and MSS comparisons show why that majority is a baseline for investigation, not a universal operating receipt.
North America Cloud Services Trends
Azure’s gateway outage began when paused updates resumed in a burst
A temporary pause ended; a large group of gateway updates restarted within a short period. At the same time, a separate change had made configuration requests slower. Microsoft’s incident review shows how the two conditions met in a shared regional control plane—and why a gateway…
ICANN
ICANN’s Monthly Board Reports Make Work Visible. Outcomes Need Proof
ICANN has begun publishing monthly reports to its Board and community. The August edition makes more of the policy-to-implementation chain visible; its percentages and status labels still need to be read as management reporting, not as independent proof of public outcomes.
CASE FILE
HKMA ties bank AI guidance, data quality and agent trials to its ART plan
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority’s new ART package combines updated supervisory guidance with a proposed training-data platform and more testing of agentic AI. The bank-specific rules for those agents are still to come.
Story
RPKI-Linked BGP Updates Stay Below 1% at RIPE RIS RRC00
An eleven-year study finds a small but rising share of BGP updates associated with RPKI events. Its reassuring number belongs to one unusually diverse RIPE RIS collector, not to an Internet-wide census.
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
Tata Power’s 2.8 GW pipeline bundles load, grid and green power
Tata Power’s new data-centre figure is large enough to sound like a single power commitment. Its own breakdown says otherwise: the headline joins upcoming distribution load, transmission-linked opportunities and green-energy engagement. Each sits at a different point in the work…
CASE FILE
RBNZ and FMA fold frontier AI cyber risk into existing duties
The 15 October statement gives financial boards and managers a more explicit supervisory test for AI-related attacks and supplier failures, while building on duties already in force.