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Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
UK SMEs face cyber threats as 2 million skip cybersecurity training
BT reports 2 million SMEs lack cybersecurity training as phishing and ransomware threats rise across the UK.
Europe and Middle East Cloud Services Trends
Google's Châteauroux data-centre plan enters French public scrutiny
Google's proposed Ozans-Châteauroux data-centre campus matters because it turns French AI infrastructure from a land signal into a public-interest infrastructure test. CNDP materials name Google France, its subsidiaries Tricolore Computing and Violet Computing, and RTE as project…
Europe and Middle East Institutional Trends
Netherlands bids to host EU AI supercomputing centre
What happened: Netherlands launches bid to host European AI supercomputing centre A Dutch consortium has submitted a proposal to the European Commission to host one of the EU’s new AI “gigafactories” under the InvestAI programme. The bid—led by the De Groot Family Office (DGFO)…
Europe and Middle East Regional ISP Trends
Inca warns Ofcom plan tilts market in Openreach’s favour
What happened: INCA flags Openreach bias The Independent Networks Cooperative Association (Inca), representing UK alternative fibre providers, has responded to Ofcom’s ongoing Telecoms Access Review (TAR) in June 2025. It strongly entities to a proposal that designates Openreach…
Europe and Middle East Cloud Services Trends
Tehran cuts global internet by 97% to counter cyber threats
What happened: Iran imposes major blackout In mid-June 2025, Iran implemented a near-total internet shutdown, cutting approximately 97% of its global internet traffic. This followed reports of cyber-attacks on local banks and the cryptocurrency platform Nobitex, which authorities…
Asia-Pacific Cloud Services Trends
Vitol Asia’s energy trade triumph
Vitol Asia Pte Ltd’s role in energy trading Founded in 1990 and headquartered in Singapore, Vitol Asia Pte Ltd is a pivotal arm of Vitol, a Swiss-based Dutch multinational energy and commodities giant established in Rotterdam in 1966. With over 40 offices worldwide, Vitol trades…
Global Cloud Services Trends
Keir Starmer’s AI tsar to step down after 6 months
What happened: Keir Starmer’s AI tsar bows out early Matt Clifford, a prominent tech investor and head of Entrepreneurs First, announced he will step down as Keir Starmer’s AI adviser at the end of July, after only six months in post. He cited “personal and family reasons”…
Global Cloud Services Trends
Fiji’s Digital Transformation: Strengthening internet infrastructure
Fiji’s digital strategy aims to enhance connectivity, cybersecurity, and public services, but challenges remain in accessibility.
Asia-Pacific Cloud Services Trends
Pisopay.com Inc.: Local Fintech Making Payments Simpler
Fintech challenges: Filling gaps in a growing digital economy The fintech sector in the Philippines is expanding rapidly. By 2023, over 200 licensed fintech companies were active in the country. However, many areas—especially rural communities—still face challenges. These include…
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
SK Group builds Ulsan data centre for AWS AI infrastructure
What happened: SK group partners with AWS for AI infrastructure in Ulsan SK Group has launched a project to build a data centre in Ulsan, South Korea, aimed at supporting Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) new AI zone. The construction is part of a larger plan to develop AI-focused…
Europe and Middle East Regional ISP Trends
FiberCop's enlarged bond pricing turns fibre rollout funding into a market-confidence test
FiberCop's bond pricing is a financing event around Italy's fixed-access fibre control surface, not a corporate identity story called 'bond offer'. FiberCop launched EUR1.4bn of senior secured notes on 16 June 2025 and, two days later, priced EUR2.8bn after strong investor…
Global Cloud Services Trends
Route Mobile: Global CPaaS leader powering digital engagement
Route Mobile: A full-stack CPaaS provider Route Mobile offers a unified API for messaging, voice, email, SMS firewalling, analytics, chatbots, WhatsApp Business, RCS, and identity verification. This cloud-based approach supports marketing, customer care, and engagement across…
Europe and Middle East Institutional Trends
UK industrial strategy faces mixed industry reaction
What happened: Industry reacts to UK’s new industrial strategy The UK government has unveiled a new Industrial Strategy aimed at stimulating growth, reducing energy costs, and steering investment towards eight priority sectors—such as advanced manufacturing, clean energy, AI, and…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
VIAVI and Hanyang turn a 6G MoU into a Seoul lab-validation signal
VIAVI and Hanyang University's June 2025 memorandum of understanding is useful because it links a test-and-assurance vendor to a Seoul research center working on AI-RAN, 5G and 6G validation. The collaboration does not prove a commercial 6G deployment or a national funding award…
Africa Regional ISP Trends
LINX and ISOC Ghana expand West Africa’s internet infrastructure
What happened: UK-Ghana initiative strengthens regional IXPs The London Internet Exchange (LINX) and Internet Society Ghana Chapter (ISOC Ghana) have launched a collaboration to boost internet infrastructure in West Africa. Their partnership focuses on supporting local internet…
Global Institutional Trends
ICANN83 in Prague: Growing pressures on internet governance
What happened: ICANN83 highlight fractures in global internet oversight Government representatives from across the globe met in Prague this June for the ICANN83 Policy Forum, where the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) issued its Prague Communiqué. The statement reflects four…
Story
ARIN's 2025 nominations open a governance-quality test
ARIN's June 2025 call for nominations is a governance event, not a routine notice. The registry opened the path for three Board of Trustees seats and five Advisory Council seats, while also running the NRO Number Council nomination track for the same election cycle. The signal is…
North America Datacenter Trends
nLighten's UK renewable supply deal turns edge power into a traceability test
nLighten's UK renewable supply agreement with Conrad Energy is a power-procurement event for distributed edge infrastructure. The important signal is not a generic sustainability claim; it is that nLighten is tying its UK data centre portfolio to a named power counterparty and to…
Global Cloud Services Trends
Ciena's Marc Graff CFO appointment turns AI-network growth into a finance-transition signal
Ciena's appointment of Marc D. Graff as chief financial officer is a finance-transition event, not a profile of either Ciena or Graff. The evidence-led observation is that Ciena announced Graff's appointment on 18 June 2025 and filed an 8-K saying he would become senior vice…
Africa Cloud Services Trends
MEO–Angola Cables launches high‑speed Atlantic data corridor
What happened: Strategic subsea link On June 20, 2025, MEO Wholesale Solutions and Angola Cables announced a joint project to build a high-capacity Atlantic “digital super-corridor.” This corridor links MEO’s data centres in Portugal with Angola Cables’ AngoNAP Fortaleza hub in…