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Institutional Legitimacy
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Africa National Telecom Trends
Smile's old licences have a new buyer in mind. What about users?
Smile Telecoms SA says it has provided no commercial services since receiving its licences around 2009. A proposed transfer to Sporic Solutions puts a more useful question than customer handover on the table: can those rights become a service people can buy?
Latin America and Caribbean National Telecom Trends
ECTEL can change the spectrum bill. What about yours?
For an operator, cheaper access to airwaves could make a network investment more attractive. For a household, the question is simpler: will the connection work better, and will the bill hurt less?
Creators
Archie made finding a file easier. Keeping it running was another job.
Alan Emtage's overnight shortcut became an early internet search service. Its commercial story is less mysterious than it sounds: the people searching and the people paying were not necessarily the same.
North America National Telecom Trends
Who pays when Ottawa orders telecom equipment out of a network?
An investment can lose its usefulness before the equipment wears out. Canada's new cyber law gives that risk a political dimension—and does not promise the operator a cheque.
Story
An Internet address is not an Internet connection
LACNIC and REGULATEL want to bring technical and regulatory work closer together. Their agreement has somewhere practical to start: working groups that already exist.
Africa National Telecom Trends
A telecom tower's last day may not belong to its owner
Taking down a tower can save its owner money and leave another provider needing a replacement. Liberia's draft asks how to let an operator leave without treating a working connection as someone else's problem.
Number Resource Society
Who keeps the registry working after the rule writers leave?
The organisations behind Internet addressing need rules for when things go wrong. The ASO Address Council has written a new proposal. Making it work would require more than a vote and a replacement nameplate.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom
Telstra's emergency-call problem is bigger than the switchboard
A wrong backup number can strand a call inside the emergency service. A faulty network can stop it getting there at all. Australia's debate over who should answer Triple Zero has to reckon with both.
North America National Telecom Trends
Who connects the factory after Mexico auctions the airwaves?
A factory needs a connection it can use, not a supplier's winning bid. Mexico's industrial spectrum tender leaves up to a year for providers to prepare their offers—a revealing gap between buying rights and earning a customer's business.
Leaders
The title and the filing: what AIS Business does not record about Benny Lim
One readable page, four unreadable ones, and a job title that BTW's directory carries but no company document this check could open confirms. That is the whole of the public record behind a role that sounds considerably more consequential than anything the record supports.
ICANN
For ICANN, stopping the abuse does not always close the case
A registrar may deal with one domain and still face months of scrutiny. ICANN's follow-up asks whether the process behind that response has improved.
Story
Why RIPE NCC's 15-month cushion needs more than a calculator
Its reserve covers 9.8 months of budgeted operating costs. Getting from that figure to a longer period without income depends on when fees arrive, what spending stops and assumptions that a balance sheet cannot settle.
Africa National Telecom Trends
Keeping your number should not mean chasing three companies
Mauritius wants mobile customers to take their number to a new network. Its proposed sole portability provider would make that choice possible; the difficult part is deciding who must put things right when the networks disagree.
IETF
Before AI agents can pick up a task, they need to recognise the conversation
Agentproto has a small-sounding job with awkward consequences: keeping track of a conversation as AI systems hand work around. Its first deadline is December. A document already online has not yet met it.
Africa Institutional Trends
East Africa has revised its e-commerce baseline. What, exactly, is being counted?
A regional meeting has refreshed the starting numbers for the EAC's online-trade strategy. The next useful publication would let a reader follow a figure back to a country, a definition and the institution that supplied it.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
A phone number moves. The duty to protect its owner does not.
Amaysim paid A$138,600 over unauthorised number transfers. A separate Ezee Mobile case shows why a fraud safeguard also needs to work after the transfer.
Afrinic SAGA
AFRINIC's next chief has a start date. Its members need decisions
Mike Silber is due to take office in January 2027. Until then, the registry's published decisions reveal a transition involving an elected board, a court-appointed receiver and members with powers of their own.
ICANN
Which questions should ICANN answer first?
Accountability first, or the structure of the institution itself? A recorded disagreement over the order of reviews shows why the redesign needs more than a new delivery date.
Africa National Telecom Trends
Nigeria's MVNO draft puts a clock on the deal, not the first call
A proposed 120-day deadline would limit how long a host can take to conclude an agreement. The argument at Nigeria's public inquiry was also about what the host must agree to—and which costs come out before revenue is shared.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Telia moves technology roles closer to markets; accountability is the next test
Telia’s proposed transfer of about 220 technology positions to country units is a change in where work sits. Whether it improves decisions will depend on the authority, expertise and service obligations that move with it.