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Africa Regional ISP Trends
WIOCC's capacity is real. The useful question is where it reaches you
Equiano's 144 Tbps design makes an impressive headline. WIOCC's control of a fibre pair and its terminal equipment tells a buyer something more practical: who can turn that potential into a service. The rest of the journey still matters.
North America Institutional
Expanse has the speed. A research project still needs its share.
At San Diego Supercomputer Center, a headline performance figure tells only part of the story. The more useful trail runs through a computing award, a resource allocation and the work a particular program can finish.
CASE FILE
China Tower has new customers. Its profits still owe a debt to old towers
Delivery riders and forest-monitoring services are expanding the tower owner's business. But a jump in profit owes much to a quieter change: old assets reaching the end of their depreciation.
Academics
Three ways a national internet record assigns credit — and the name none of them names
The Philippine country-code domain was delegated to one man in 1990 on the strength of his own technical credentials. The first international link is recorded as one technician's act inside a funded academic project whose committee is listed seat by seat, institution by…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
IPS prices equity for Wakayama; the project’s funding split remains open
IPS has priced a public share issue for its proposed Wakayama cable branch and landing station. The company estimates up to ¥4.58bn in net proceeds against a project-wide cost estimate of about ¥23bn, while the grant amount, partner contributions and IPS’s final burden remain…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom
Indus Towers: A Rs 2,200 Crore Ceiling Is Doing the Work of a Price
Indus Towers Limited reports revenue in the thousands of crores. The number that most directly governs how a large part of that revenue is negotiated is far smaller, and it is not a price at all. It is a ceiling: up to Rs 2,200 crore per financial year of related-party…
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
Between Wafer and Accelerator: TSMC's Packaging Gate and the Limits of the Record
TSMC's third-quarter 2026 numbers are unambiguous: US$46.72 billion of revenue against guidance, a 66.4% gross margin, and a fourth-quarter guide above US$52 billion. What the materials reviewed do not quantify is the step that turns a leading-edge die into a shippable…
Europe and Middle East Institutional
The British Library was judged on the breach, not on the repair
Ransomware took out the digital systems and services of the United Kingdom's national library in October 2023. Nearly three years later the public record holds a regulator's verdict on the security that failed, and no independent verdict on the estate that replaced it. Those are…
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
Vietnam’s $2.1bn AI Campus Faces a Power-Tariff Test Before Construction
A July investment certificate put a US$2.1bn figure on Ho Chi Minh City’s planned AI campus. HEPZA’s October request shows that registration has not yet settled the cost of electricity, the rule governing each use, or the power plan needed before the first phase can break ground.
Europe and Middle East Institutional
London Internet Exchange Publishes Two Peak-Traffic Numbers. Neither One Carries a Measurement Date.
The operator's homepage says 13 Tbps and "900+" member networks. Its one dated public declaration, published in January 2026, says 12.069 Tbps across four regions. The arithmetic does not close into a growth story, and no public document in this record reconciles it. For anyone…
North America National Telecom
Verizon Now Owns Frontier's Licences. The FCC Declined to Say What Those Lines Must Do.
The order that cleared Verizon Communications Inc. to hold Frontier Communications Corporation's licences settled ownership and left conduct open. In the same document the federal regulator expressly refused three requests that would have fixed how the acquired plant is sold…
Global Cloud Services
The Price Without a Unit: CoreWeave's Contract Clock and the Depreciation Clock
On 16 September 2026 CoreWeave, Inc said something that sounds like good news and cannot be checked. New compute capacity, the company stated, was still being contracted at higher prices. There was no price. There was no unit. There was no contract length, no named customer, and…
Asia-Pacific Regional ISP Trends
GTPL Hathway's revenue grew 19%, but Q2 EBITDA barely moved
GTPL Hathway reported a sharp rise in revenue and digital-TV subscribers in the September quarter, with the ACT cable acquisition adding about 600,000 subscribers. Yet reported EBITDA was nearly flat year on year as channel costs and related incentives expanded together. The…
CASE FILE
Meta Platforms and the five and a half hours the internet could not find it
On 4 October 2021 a routine maintenance command took Meta Platforms' entire backbone out of service, its own health logic withdrew the route announcements that made its name servers reachable, and the loss of naming removed the out-of-band path engineers needed to reverse the…
Number Resource Society
The Address Council Describes Its Own Job, and Every Duty Points Upward
Strip the drafting away from the Address Supporting Organization's own description of its Address Council and what remains is a short list of duties that all run in one direction: toward ICANN. The page that would tell a reader how a wayward regional registry is disciplined is…
Europe and Middle East National Telecom
Telecom Italia: control settled at 85.82%, and part of the price was the buyer's own paper
Poste Italiane's offer closed with 85.82% of Telecom Italia, short of the 90% that a market report describes as the level for delisting, and the improved terms paid EUR 1.97 in cash plus 0.218 newly issued Poste Italiane shares for each Telecom Italia share tendered. Four months…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom
When 000 fails, who answers? Telstra and the widening of emergency-call accountability
Australia's emergency-calling record between November 2023 and September 2026 is not a single outage story. It is a sequence of four instruments, each one widening the question from what one carrier did to who should hold the emergency line at all.
Asia-Pacific Datacenter
NxtGen's sovereign cloud claim: what the public record can and cannot verify
An Indian cloud and data-centre operator calls itself the country's largest sovereign cloud provider, running five data centres, serving more than a thousand customers, holding three separate government empanelments, and fielding an accelerator estate that spans NVIDIA, AMD and…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom
Two Landing Stations, One Operator: What Bangladesh's Submarine Capacity Figures Actually Establish
Bangladesh's international bandwidth comes ashore at two beaches and, on the public record, through one company. In October 2026 that company put a number on its own position, and the number closes arithmetically in one rendering of the statement and not in the other. This is a…
ICANN
The Recognition Gate: What a Draft RIR Governance Document Actually Hands Out
A draft instrument published by the Number Resource Organization would replace the 2001 criteria for creating regional internet registries. Its most consequential clause does not grant authority over registries; it makes that authority conditional on a proposal the registries…