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North America National Telecom
AT&T selects Ericsson for EchoStar 600MHz rollout
AT&T is preparing to deploy EchoStar’s 600 MHz spectrum after already putting the acquired 3.45 GHz holdings into service.
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AFRINIC said its transfer rule would keep members from leaving. The authority fight is still open
Six months after AFRINIC ratified a policy that keeps resources issued from its pool inside regional transfer channels, its own case list still labels a lawsuit against that ratification as ongoing. The policy-development record can show how a proposal advanced; it cannot by…
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AFRINIC still has not published the result of its $3.29m legal-spend vote
Forty-six days after members were due to decide whether to approve four years of accounts, AFRINIC's public AGMM page still shows the proposed resolutions but no result, tally or 2026 minutes. The missing record leaves members unable to tell what was approved—and whether anyone…
North America Datacenter Trends
Hillsboro has closed the data-centre intake, not the project pipeline
Hillsboro’s 120-day land-use moratorium stops new data-centre and battery-storage applications from entering the city system. It does not cancel projects already being built or assessed. A separate 180-day pause applies to Strategic Investment Program agreements with stand-alone…
Latin America and Caribbean Institutional
RedCLARA built a continental backbone through federation, not ownership
In 2021, research traffic began using the approximately 6,000‑kilometre EllaLink route between Portugal and Brazil, giving RedCLARA and GÉANT long‑term optical capacity across the South Atlantic. The route strengthened a federation that still depends on national networks, project…
Europe and Middle East National Telecom
Iraq regulator begins Korek Telecom shutdown
Iraq’s telecom regulator is moving to shut Korek’s network after a settlement collapsed, while customers await instructions on what happens to their SIMs.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
ANU report calls for priority subsea cable repair access
An ANU report says Australia should secure priority repair access for subsea cables as security concerns grow around critical undersea infrastructure.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
Echo subsea cable lands in Singapore
Echo has landed in Singapore, extending a US-Southeast Asia route that bypasses the South China Sea but is not yet fully operational.
North America Datacenter Trends
Oregon advisers reject statewide data-centre moratorium
Oregon advisers reject a statewide data-centre moratorium as Kotek backs local pauses while the state develops new rules.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
UK MVNO connections forecast to rise 51%
FDM CCS Insight expects MVNOs to exceed 30% of UK mobile connections excluding M2M by 2031 as app-based entrants expand.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
The Trans-Caspian cable has crossed the sea; the unfinished shore now sets the clock
The 380-kilometre fibre link between Sumgayit and Aktau has completed its marine lay, moving the Trans-Caspian project beyond the cable-ship phase reported in July. Yet the operators themselves say coastal integration and terrestrial construction are still under way. The wet…
North America Datacenter Trends
SoftBank has paid ahead of its US infrastructure; conversion is now the test
SoftBank Group spent JPY968.929bn in one quarter acquiring US power-generation and data-centre assets, and JPY637.772bn—65.8%—was recorded as advance payments. The scale is substantial, but it does not describe a commissioned fleet or even a data-centre-only portfolio. A second…
North America Datacenter Trends
Bell’s AI build is taking cash before its megawatts become measurable
BCE generated more cash from operations in the second quarter, yet had less free cash left after investment. Operating cash flow rose 11% to C$2.162bn while free cash flow fell 9.5% to C$1.042bn, as capital expenditure climbed 41.5% to C$1.080bn. Bell AI Fabric construction is…
North America Cloud Services Trends
DigitalOcean’s six-hour incident exposed the cost of a shared provisioning choke point
DigitalOcean restored a multi-region incident after six hours and three minutes, but the most useful fact is not the duration alone. New customers could not register, existing customers could not reliably create Droplets or database clusters, and several ways of adding…
North America Datacenter Trends
Amazon’s 7.65GW private-power bet moves the grid boundary, not the risk
Amazon has confirmed that its planned Pecos County data centre will rely on new on-site generation. The confirmation supplies the missing customer-side link to Pacifico Energy’s GW Ranch, a private-power campus whose Texas air permit covers 7.65GW of gross gas-fired generation.…
North America Datacenter Trends
AWS’s Gilroy build exposes the gap between public record and public visibility
Amazon Web Services did not build in Gilroy without paperwork. The city ran a 45-day environmental review, received six comment letters and published the approval record. Yet the 56-acre, 438,500-square-foot campus reached construction without a Planning Commission or City…
North America Datacenter Trends
TeraFab’s $16.8bn first phase moves the bottleneck inside the factory gate
SpaceX has now put an address and an opening capital estimate on its TeraFab ambition: Grimes County, Texas, and approximately $16.8bn for an initial phase funded by SpaceX and Tesla. That is a material narrowing of a project that was already visible in prospectus and county…
Asia-Pacific Cloud Services Trends
Sharon AI has sold five years of demand before it has started the revenue clock
Sharon AI’s new contract creates a precise commercial promise and an imprecise operating obligation. An unnamed global AI platform has agreed to a five-year, $373m take-or-pay service, with an initial deployment expected to use 2,048 NVIDIA B300 GPUs. Revenue is expected only…
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
SKY47 and ZTE launch 8.5MW Islamabad data centre
Karakoram-01 has launched with 8.5MW of stated total power, but available IT capacity and customer deployments have not been disclosed.
Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
Harworth in talks to sell second data-centre site
Harworth is negotiating a second data-centre land sale at a site with planning and power, while its wider 800MW connection portfolio remains at different stages.