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One firm accounted for 93.9% of AFRINIC's 2023 legal-fee line. The audit does not show the authority trail
AFRINIC's newly published 2023 finance summary assigns US$1,064,309 of US$1,133,630 in legal fees to C&A Law and says US$1,260,250 was owed to the firm at year-end, excluding VAT. The accounts now carry an unmodified audit opinion. What members still cannot see is the…
North America National Telecom Trends
Array site-rental revenue rises 95% after T-Mobile lease
Array's tower rental revenue nearly doubled in Q2 as the T-Mobile lease lifted its base, while tenancy rose only slightly.
North America Datacenter Trends
Energy Vault signs 1.25GW Texas AI power deal
Energy Vault's 1.25GW Texas agreement pairs batteries, power controls and Caterpillar gensets to bring AI data-centre capacity online ahead of utility interconnections.
North America National Telecom Trends
Lockheed Martin tests NetSense drone sensing on Verizon 5G
The Miami-area demonstration used Verizon spectrum and AI software to detect and track drones, with pilot deployments planned ahead of targeted 2027 availability.
Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
CyrusOne wins Southall data-centre approval
Ealing approved CyrusOne’s Southall data-centre campus, but the company has not disclosed when its separately sourced power connection will be energised.
North America Datacenter Trends
Arkansas local governments set different data-centre rules
Carroll County has paused approvals while Fayetteville and Little Rock use new rules, creating different local routes for data-centre development.
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AFRINIC notified members of a no-approval meeting. Its draft minutes record a 99% adoption
AFRINIC's 23 March notice said the 2021 accounts would only be received and noted on 14 April because no approval was required. The draft minutes record a different operative text: receive, note and adopt. They report a 99%-1% poll but publish no ballot totals. That missing…
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AFRINIC's current Board is making decisions, but its resolutions archive still stops at 2022
AFRINIC says its Board publishes resolutions and the minutes of the meetings where they were taken. As of 13 August 2026, the page making that promise listed years only through 2022—even though the purported current Board has since announced decisions on management, committees…
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JANOG58 turned a sponsor annex into its first local-5G operations trial
JANOG58’s most consequential wireless result was not a headline speed test. Faced with an overflow of sponsor booths in a separate annex, the meeting team assembled a licensed local-5G service, provisioned it through CPE routers and operated it across three conference…
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AFRINIC called an interim takedown order a legal confirmation. The order says less
The Mauritius Supreme Court temporarily barred Cloud Innovation from falsely attributing judicial approval to AFRINIC-address leasing and ordered related material removed. AFRINIC then presented that ex parte order as confirmation of a wider legal position. The published ruling…
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The RIR governance draft changed hands before the public could inspect version 3
On 28 July, the ASO Address Council delivered its recommended RIR Governance Document to the NRO Executive Council and transferred responsibility for the text. The document, the explanation of changes from version 2 and the redline were not published with that handoff. The next…
North America Regional ISP Trends
Hoopa Valley opens data centre for tribal fibre network
The NTIA-funded facility will support network operations as Hoopa Valley expands fibre-to-the-home and builds a separate 23-mile middle-mile route.
North America Datacenter Trends
HD Hyundai wins 1GW US data-centre power order
HD Hyundai Heavy Industries will supply 1GW of HiMSEN engine capacity to Corban Energy for data centres operated by an unnamed US technology company.
Global Cloud Services Trends
Artificial intelligence needs an outcome test
A fluent answer is not the same as a useful result. AI earns operational authority only when its output survives a task-specific test and a failed action can be reversed.
Global Cloud Services Trends
OpenAI dependency needs an exit route
Access to a capable model can accelerate work, but an application becomes exposed when prompts, evaluations and business rules cannot move with it.
Global Datacenter Trends
Data-centre capacity starts with usable power
A building full of racks is not capacity until power, cooling, network paths and operating staff can support the workload through a fault.
Global Cloud Services Trends
Narrow AI needs a scope boundary
A system can outperform people on one task and fail immediately outside its training conditions. The boundary is part of the product, not a footnote.
Global Cloud Services Trends
Bitcoin use starts with custody and settlement
Price movement attracts attention, but the operational decision is who controls the keys, when a transfer is final enough and what recovery remains after a mistake.
Global Cloud Services Trends
Internet infrastructure needs a bottleneck map
More fibre does not guarantee resilience when cable landings, backhaul, power and interconnection still share one failure domain.
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AFRINIC continuity depends on verifiable records
A regional registry is trusted through accurate number-resource records, accountable decisions and a continuity plan that survives institutional dispute.