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What APNIC's conservation rhetoric asks the registry to justify
APNIC is examined through conservation rhetoric as a registry-governance and institutional-economics problem for the Asia Pacific region.
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Who can assert title over APNIC legacy allocations?
APNIC is examined through legacy allocation title as a registry-governance and institutional-economics problem for the Asia Pacific region.
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APNIC continuity when registry governance enters court
APNIC is examined through court and continuity risk as a registry-governance and institutional-economics problem for the Asia Pacific region.
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What makes an APNIC board mandate credible?
APNIC is examined through board election legitimacy as a registry-governance and institutional-economics problem for the Asia Pacific region.
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The procedural gatekeeping of APNIC policy mailing lists
APNIC is examined through policy mailing-list procedure as a registry-governance and institutional-economics problem for the Asia Pacific region.
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APNIC registry rules under capital-control logic
APNIC is examined through capital control as a registry-governance and institutional-economics problem for the Asia Pacific region.
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How mandate laundering tests APNIC's stated remit
APNIC is examined through mandate laundering as a registry-governance and institutional-economics problem for the Asia Pacific region.
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APNIC's IPv4 leasing problem at the edge of formal allocation
APNIC is examined through ipv4 leasing and shadow allocation as a registry-governance and institutional-economics problem for the Asia Pacific region.
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Who may trade under APNIC's transfer market design?
APNIC is examined through transfer market architecture as a registry-governance and institutional-economics problem for the Asia Pacific region.
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APNIC allocation choices when IPv4 addresses are scarce
APNIC is examined through ipv4 scarcity as a registry-governance and institutional-economics problem for the Asia Pacific region.
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The point where APNIC's ledger becomes gatekeeping
APNIC is examined through ledger versus gatekeeper as a registry-governance and institutional-economics problem for the Asia Pacific region.
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APNIC's claim to legitimacy in regional registry governance
APNIC is examined through institutional legitimacy as a registry-governance and institutional-economics problem for the Asia Pacific region.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
Vocus plans Australia's first ducted Sydney–Melbourne fibre route
Vocus' new ducted fibre corridor signals a shift towards resilient, upgradeable backbone infrastructure as AI, hyperscale cloud and data centre growth reshape Australia's connectivity priorities.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
Japan backs Rakuten-led sovereign satellite network
Japan plans to support a Rakuten-led satellite network with a ¥150 billion subsidy, advancing sovereign communications infrastructure as non-terrestrial networks become increasingly strategic for telecom resilience.
Asia-Pacific Datacenter
Firmus and DayOne build Nvidia-backed Batam AI campus
Firmus Technologies and DayOne are developing a 360MW Nvidia DSX AI Factory campus in Batam, Indonesia, under an eight-year partnership with Nvidia, targeting AI-native multi-tenant workloads and large-scale GPU deployment.
Global Regional ISP Trends
Starlink leads New Zealand rural broadband market
Starlink has become the largest rural broadband provider in New Zealand, driven by rapid LEO satellite adoption and accelerated copper network retirement, reshaping competition in the country’s rural connectivity market.
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
South Korea launches $576bn AI chip and data centre programme
South Korea has unveiled a $576bn national initiative to expand semiconductor manufacturing and AI infrastructure, integrating chip production and data centre buildout into a unified long-term industrial strategy led by government and major chaebol groups.
Asia-Pacific Cloud Services
Aayat Host: The Economics of a Hosting Name Attached to a Thin, Dormant ASN
The divergence: access operator, hoster, reseller or resource identity?
Asia-Pacific Regional ISP
Apurva at the edge of a restricted Internet market: scarcity rents, dormant routing assets, and the economy of trust in Timor-Leste
Timor-Leste's Internet economy starts with scarcity, not scale. In a large and dense market, an ISP's bargaining power is generally read through subscriber numbers, fiber kilometers, tower portfolio, peering density, and market share.
Asia-Pacific Regional ISP
Amader Net and the neighborhood ISP economy: why a low-profile access provider in Dhaka can survive bandwidth price pressure
Small local ISPs persist because broadband is not bought as a pure commodity at the customer's door. Bandwidth can be purchased upstream in standardized increments, routed through licensed gateways, carried over fiber, and resold in plans that seem interchangeable on a price…