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Editorial portrait of Vittorio Colao against a restrained digital infrastructure backdrop.

Leaders

Vittorio Colao and the discipline of scale

Vittorio Colao's career is best read as a study in how telecom operating experience travels into public digital policy and later into growth investment. At Vodafone he ran a multinational network business through recession, regulation, convergence, India pressure and one of the…

Jul 11, 2026
Marc Murtra in an editorial portrait against an abstract telecom infrastructure and boardroom backdrop.

Leaders

Marc Murtra and Telefónica's Scale Problem

Marc Murtra arrived at Telefónica with unusually concentrated authority, a reshaped shareholder map and a public argument that Europe's telecom operators are too fragmented to finance the next generation of networks. His record so far is less a turnaround victory than a live test…

Jul 11, 2026
AI editorial portrait of Christel Heydemann in an Orange telecom infrastructure and cybersecurity setting

Leaders

Christel Heydemann and the Orange test of regulated scale

Christel Heydemann runs Orange at the point where the telecom sector stops looking like a normal market and starts looking like public infrastructure with private shareholders: a former monopoly asked to raise European returns, fund fiber and 5G, grow in Africa, defend…

Jul 11, 2026
Editorial infrastructure image for Afilias, Inc.

North America Institutional

Afilias made registry scale valuable before its brand disappeared into Identity Digital

Afilias became valuable in the domain-name industry because it sat behind names that other companies, registrars, governments and registrants needed to keep resolving. Its story is not a clean story of consumer brand growth; it is a story about registry contracts, DNS delegation…

Jul 10, 2026
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Europe and Middle East Cloud Services

Amdocs makes a carrier billing migration costlier than the software licence

For a telecom operator, replacing billing or customer-management software is not a normal software procurement exercise. Amdocs Development Limited sits inside a global Amdocs group whose products and managed services touch rating, charging, care, revenue assurance, AI-assisted…

Jul 10, 2026
Editorial infrastructure image for hosting.com MEX1

Europe and Middle East Cloud Services

hosting.com MEX1 makes contract migration more consequential than server location

For an A2 Hosting customer reaching renewal after the move to hosting.com, the biggest question is no longer only which server region is nearest to visitors. It is whether a familiar shared, WordPress, VPS or managed-server account now depends on a consolidated platform contract…

Jul 10, 2026
Editorial infrastructure image for OpenXS GmbH

Europe and Middle East Regional ISP

OpenXS prices the wholesale fibre handoff before a German household sees a bill

OpenXS GmbH sits in a part of the German fibre market that most households never see: the operating layer where a municipal or regional fibre network becomes a bookable, activatable, supportable wholesale service for retail providers. The company does not need to be the logo on…

Jul 10, 2026
Editorial infrastructure image for VERIO

North America Cloud Services

VERIO sells hosting memory after the internet brand changes hands

An old VERIO customer is not really choosing between nostalgia and novelty. The live decision is more practical: whether the domain, mailbox, SSL certificate, DNS records, server files, support contacts and renewal settings are safer inside a consolidated web-presence platform…

Jul 9, 2026
Editorial infrastructure image for Miss Group INC

North America Cloud Services

Miss Group's hosting account absorbs scale after the roll-up

A small-business hosting account is a humble purchase until the supplier behind it changes shape. Miss Group's U.S. surface, visible through Hostek's terms and pricing, tests whether a roll-up can turn domains, hosting, billing, migration work and support into a larger operating…

Jul 6, 2026
Abstract navy finance-infrastructure scene with two corporate infrastructure blocks converging at a blue registry-transfer gate, amber address-value fragments inside a diligence envelope, integration rails, and a red fracture shadow after closing.

Story

AFRINIC and the economics of merger and acquisition address risk

AFRINIC-administered IPv4 can decide whether an acquisition delivers the address continuity, customer capacity and integration value a buyer thought it had priced.

Jul 5, 2026
Editorial infrastructure image for Ziply Fiber

North America Regional ISP

Ziply Fiber and the payback clock hidden inside a cheap gigabit bill

Ziply Fiber sells a simple promise to households and small businesses in the Pacific Northwest: fast fibre at a visible monthly price that can undercut cable and fixed-wireless offers. The harder question is whether that bill is large enough, for long enough, to recover the cost…

Jul 5, 2026
Editorial infrastructure image for Full Fibre Ltd

Europe and Middle East Regional ISP

Full Fibre and the wholesale altnet clock after the easy UK streets were built

A Full Fibre line is valuable only when a retail ISP, landlord, council or household turns a passed premise into a paid month that can survive cheaper substitutes from Openreach, CityFibre, Virgin Media O2 or fixed wireless; that makes the company a test of whether UK altnet…

Jul 5, 2026
Editorial infrastructure image for Thrive Operations, LLC

North America Cloud Services

Thrive Operations and the Hidden Cost of the Managed-Service Month

A mid-market CFO does not compare a Thrive contract with a single cloud invoice. She compares one managed-service month with the payroll, tooling, backup infrastructure, security monitoring, vendor management, acquisition cleanup and customer-specific labour that would otherwise…

Jul 5, 2026
Editorial infrastructure image for Telekom Slovenije, d.d.

Europe and Middle East National Telecom

Telekom Slovenije and the capex dividend clock inside a small national network

A Slovenian household choosing one mobile, fibre and television account is not only choosing a bundle; it is voting on whether an incumbent can keep national network quality high while spectrum, fibre rollout, copper retirement, core upgrades, field work, retail support, content…

Jul 5, 2026
Editorial infrastructure image for Norlys-Fibernet Sinal A/S

Europe and Middle East Regional ISP

Norlys Fibernet and the wholesale toll beneath Denmark's broadband choice

A Danish household comparing broadband can see a familiar retail shelf: Norlys, Hiper, Telenor, YouSee, Waoo, EWII, Bahnhof and other brands promising fast fibre, low introductory prices, routers, Wi-Fi support or bundled television. The more important choice may sit below that…

Jul 5, 2026
Editorial infrastructure image for Quad/Graphics Inc.

North America Institutional

Quad/Graphics and the print plant that has to behave like software

A retailer or publisher now expects a campaign to move from audience data to files, proofs, printed material, fulfilment and delivery on a timetable that looks more like a software release than a legacy print order. Quad/Graphics Inc. is priced by whether its factories…

Jul 5, 2026
Editorial infrastructure image for Maxburg Capital Partners

Europe and Middle East Institutional

Maxburg and the exit multiple inside recurring software infrastructure

A private-equity owner looking at a communications-software asset is not only asking whether the product works. The harder question is whether a base of reseller contracts, support obligations and hosted telephony customers can be repriced as recurring infrastructure, then sold…

Jul 5, 2026
Editorial infrastructure image for NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.

Asia-Pacific Institutional

Nissan Motor and the connected-car bill inside a squeezed auto margin

A Nissan buyer used to pay for metal, seats, safety, fuel economy and a warranty. The modern buyer is also paying, whether explicitly or through the vehicle price, for software, connected services, diagnostics, dealer data, charging guidance, finance systems and long-running…

Jul 5, 2026
Editorial infrastructure image for Stadtwerke Bruneck

Europe and Middle East Regional ISP

Stadtwerke Bruneck and the trench economics of civic fibre

Stadtwerke Bruneck's broadband business is not just a small Italian ISP attached to a utility. It is a live test of whether a city utility can convert streets it already digs, ducts it already knows, meters it already visits and customers it already serves into a fibre product…

Jul 4, 2026
Editorial infrastructure image for Sure Guernsey Ltd

Europe and Middle East National Telecom

Sure Guernsey and the island outage bill

Sure Guernsey is best read as a small-market utility whose real product is not a headline broadband speed but restoration certainty. The public evidence points to a company with fixed and mobile licences, a publicly supported island-wide fibre rebuild, visible off-island…

Jul 4, 2026