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ICANN
ICANN’s CIP Is Underway. Its Accountability Test Comes Later
ICANN’s first annual progress table for its Continuous Improvement Program shows six of eight community structures at work and one already implementing improvements. That is useful evidence of mobilisation. It is not yet evidence that any structure has become more effective or…
Global Regional ISP Trends
Ubiquiti's $3.27bn Year Was an Enterprise Shift, Not a Service-Provider Rebound
Ubiquiti ended fiscal 2026 with record revenue, but the headline conceals two businesses moving in opposite directions. Enterprise Technology supplied more than all of the company's net growth while Service Provider Technology contracted, shifting the economic centre of the group…
North America Datacenter Trends
AUC rejects Synapse's 1.4GW Olds power plant
The regulator found Synapse's proposed gas plant too close to homes, forcing a rethink of the power plan behind its 1GW Olds data centre.
Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
Latos submits East Manchester data centre plans
Latos's compact edge model now has to clear planning with its power, plant, noise controls and access built into the site design.
North America Institutional Trends
Prince George approves C$400,000 Northern Health fibre link
Prince George will add a second Northern Health fibre link before hospital construction severs an existing route, using revenue from its municipal network.
North America National Telecom Trends
Cox's 33.6m Charter Units Were Valued at $11.9bn at Signing and $5bn at Close
Charter completed its acquisition of Cox with approximately the same 33.6 million exchangeable common units promised in 2025. What changed was their implied value: Charter called them US$11.9 billion at signing and approximately US$5 billion at closing, making the seller's…
North America Datacenter Trends
Meta's Alberta data centre may start before 932MW power plant
Meta's 1GW Alberta data centre may start before its 932MW dedicated gas plant, making interim power arrangements part of the project's delivery plan.
North America Datacenter Trends
Alberta considers setback rules for AI data centres
Alberta is considering minimum separation from homes after the AUC rejected a 1.4GW power plant proposed beside an Olds data-centre project.
ICANN
ICANN’s Alternative-Name Test Stops at Technical Feasibility
ICANN has opened public comment on a model for linking a gTLD to the same string in alternative naming systems. The initial report says the arrangement can be technically safe if one controller and one coherent source of truth govern every copy of the name. That is a demanding…
Asia-Pacific Cloud Services Trends
Singapore Has Assigned 200MW of Data-Centre Capacity, Not 200MW of Live Compute
Singapore has provisionally divided 200MW of new data-centre capacity among Digital Realty, Equinix, Keppel Data Centres and ST Telemedia Global Data Centres. The award is a valuable entry in a constrained market, but land, low-carbon energy, construction, customers and…
Asia-Pacific Cloud Services Trends
Sakura widens intrusion review to 1.36 million possible accounts
Sakura Internet says an investigation that began with 583 Rental Server accounts has reached a separate sales-management system holding member and contract records. Up to 1,360,563 accounts may sit inside the review perimeter, but the Japanese cloud operator has not confirmed…
Latin America and Caribbean National Telecom Trends
Viettel's $560m Dominican Plan Has Spectrum, Not a Network
Viettel Global has paired a US$560 million overseas-investment authorisation with 240MHz of Dominican spectrum. The two approvals make a serious market entry possible, but a 90-day legal closing, a financed build and a customer-ready operating system still stand between the award…
IETF
The IETF Moved Its Secretariat Inside, Not Its Standards Authority
From 1 August, the IETF Secretariat is organised as two teams inside the IETF Administration LLC, after an April transition from a conventional outsourced service to an employer-of-record arrangement. The change shortens the administrative chain, but the constitutional line…
Asia-Pacific Cloud Services Trends
Mercury Buys Into Datagrid Before the 140MW Power Option Becomes Load
Mercury has paid NZ$53 million for a 12.7% stake and a board seat in Datagrid NZ after signing a 140MW power purchase option. The structure gives the generator an early position beside a possible anchor customer, but it does not turn consent, earthworks or an option into an…
ICANN
ICANN Has an Application Count, Not Yet a String Count
ICANN closed its 2026 new-gTLD window with more than 1,600 primary applications and more than 1,100 replacement-string options. Those figures describe the queue at submission, not the final set of names that will proceed through evaluation.
Africa Cloud Services Trends
Nigeria Bets Federal Cloud Buying Power Can Anchor an Open Provider Market
Nigeria’s new cloud policy puts aggregated federal demand at the centre of its market-building strategy: ministries, departments and agencies would buy through coordinated mechanisms from multiple registered providers, creating an anchor customer large enough to improve…
Asia-Pacific Cloud Services Trends
Cloudflare applied an Asia-Pacific network fix in eight minutes, but recovery stayed unmeasured
Cloudflare moved a broadly labelled Asia-Pacific network-performance incident from investigation to monitoring in 8 minutes 36 seconds. The record remained open more than 86 minutes later and named no location, product, symptom or customer denominator, so the fix timestamp cannot…
Europe and Middle East Cloud Services Trends
Twilio identifies a Kosovo SMS fault while an earlier alert stays open
Twilio says it has identified the cause of SMS delivery failures to subscribers of a network it calls Dukagjjni in Kosovo, but it has not published that cause or a recovery time. A second, earlier incident entity still says investigating, leaving customers with two open provider…
Story
The missing disposition in LACNIC’s 2026 Review Committee vote
The vote count is public, the audit windows have closed and the result is labelled official. Yet the same LACNIC page that offered two distinct seats currently identifies only one elected candidate, leaving the immediate-vacancy seat without a public disposition.
North America Datacenter Trends
Generac commits $250m to data-centre generator capacity
Hyperscale orders are pushing Generac to expand US generator production ahead of 2027 deliveries, while supplier capacity and tariff exposure remain unresolved.