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Asia-Pacific National Telecom
Hutchison Telecom corporate revenue rises 43%
Local service revenue stayed flat even as 5G penetration reached 64%, leaving corporate services and roaming to provide much of Hutchison Telecom's growth.
Europe and Middle East Datacenter
AWS cannot restore data kept only in Bahrain
AWS says resources and data stored only in its Bahrain Region cannot be recovered, while one of three UAE Availability Zones is also beyond restoration.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom
Optus outage tests emergency-call failover
A 76-minute hardware failure disrupted voice calls and left 46 Triple Zero calls unable to connect. The unanswered question is whether emergency camp-on worked as intended.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
EU high-risk vendor plan draws telco pushback
Connect Europe and GSMA Europe oppose proposed EU rules that could force designated high-risk equipment out of mobile networks within three years.
Europe and Middle East Datacenter
Khazna and Siemens explore 800VDC AI power
A new MoU covers digital twins, 800VDC power and technology testing for future AI data centres, but names no facility, capacity or deployment date.
North America Datacenter Trends
Loudoun advances 12-month data-centre pause
Loudoun supervisors voted 7-1-1 to draft a 12-month pause on legislative data-centre and substation applications, with a final vote expected on 20 October.
Africa National Telecom Trends
Kenya opens fibre framework to multiple providers
ICTA can appoint up to 28 providers across two lots, then compete individual backbone, metro and cross-border requirements through later call-off contracts.
North America Datacenter Trends
AirJoule buys BitSink for data-centre cooling
The acquisition gives AirJoule an operating cooling business and a route to test whether data-centre waste heat can support on-site water generation.
Europe and Middle East Cloud Services Trends
TotalEnergies, Mistral build oil-and-gas AI models
The partnership brings a European model developer into TotalEnergies' subsurface work, where control of data and deployment matters alongside model performance.
Global National Telecom Trends
WRC-27 weighs new spectrum rules for D2D
WRC-27 will consider new spectrum rules for satellite links to ordinary mobile devices as regulators work through interference, licensing and cross-border coordination.
Global Datacenter Trends
Onsemi unveils wafer-level power platform for AI racks
Its Embedded Power Platform integrates power devices into a silicon wafer-level package, targeting denser power delivery as AI racks consume more electricity.
North America Datacenter Trends
US data-centre moratoriums delay 2.3GW
SemiAnalysis mapped more than 300 US data-centre moratoriums but estimates only about 2.3GW of planned capacity is genuinely delayed.
Global Cloud Services
Oracle Cloud’s automation promise meets the limits of deployment
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is more than a transit-routing service: it offers code-driven provisioning, event-triggered operations, recovery orchestration and specialized AI capacity. The practical question is not whether these controls exist, but how much operational work they…
ICANN
ICANN’s Authority Is Layered—and So Are Its Remedies
ICANN does not exercise one undifferentiated kind of power. Its authority is assembled from corporate instruments, Bylaws, policy procedures and private contracts; the route for challenging an action depends on which layer produced it.
Global National Telecom Trends
6G plans shift towards reusing 5G spectrum and radios
Early 6G designs favour reusing 5G infrastructure, which could reduce opportunities for operators to switch suppliers.
Global Cloud Services Trends
SD-WAN strengthens as SASE growth tops 20%
Dell'Oro says SASE revenue reached $3.5bn in Q2 while SD-WAN strengthened as enterprises selectively replaced ageing branch infrastructure.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
European telcos push EU on consolidation
European telecom CEOs want merger rules to give more weight to scale and investment as Brussels rewrites its competition framework.
North America National Telecom Trends
FCC opens five-year rural wireless test zone in Iowa
Iowa State's ARA testbed can now run wireless experiments across Ames and surrounding farmland under a five-year FCC Innovation Zone designation.
Global National Telecom Trends
Harmonic expands beyond DOCSIS with fibre and AI
Harmonic is pushing further into PON and AI software as cable operators add fibre, aiming to stay relevant as the physical access network changes.
North America National Telecom Trends
Cox and Verizon outages reach global customers
ThousandEyes saw 14-minute Cox and eight-minute Verizon Business outages affect partners and customers across multiple countries despite their brief duration.