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Public-sector Continuity
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Europe and Middle East National Telecom
Andorra Telecom's 2022 DDoS attacks made national connectivity concentration an accountability test
On two evenings in January 2022, distributed denial-of-service attacks sent enough unwanted traffic toward Andorra Telecom to disrupt internet and 4G service for some customers, according to the Government of Andorra. A DDoS attack does not need to enter a network or steal data…
North America National Telecom
AT&T's 2017 VoLTE 911 outage made emergency-call routing changes an accountability test
For five hours on March 8, 2017, a mismatch between AT&T's provisioning record and its live emergency-call network prevented thousands of customers from reaching 911 directly. The Federal Communications Commission traced the event from an incorrect IP whitelist through Session…
North America Datacenter Trends
Iowa’s data-centre tool turns local controversy into questions that can be audited
The University of Iowa has released a decision tool for counties, cities and communities considering data-centre development. It does not tell officials to approve or refuse a project. Its value is more procedural: it converts arguments about water, power, taxes, land and…
North America Datacenter Trends
Lakeland’s 50MW line buys a year to write rules before approving concentrated load
Lakeland’s City Commission voted 4-3 for a twelve-month moratorium on large-scale data centres and other proposed customers with peak demand of at least 50MW. The pause covers the city’s acceptance, processing, review and approval of relevant development applications while…
North America National Telecom Trends
Michigan’s nine water-system reports widen the cyber incident without showing unsafe water
Michigan says nine water systems reported malicious activity consistent with a federal alert. The systems kept operating safely and local teams addressed the issues, leaving a serious operational-technology investigation but no disclosed public-health impact or named culprit.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom
KT's 2021 Routing Error Made Protocol-Boundary Validation a National Network Accountability Test
KT's nationwide Internet disruption showed why a carrier cannot treat an approved maintenance plan or two layers of manual review as proof that a live routing change is safe: accountability depends on the exact commands routers execute, the protocol boundaries they preserve, the…
Europe and Middle East National Telecom
Belgacom's 2013 Intrusion Made Roaming-Router Access an Operator Accountability Test
The lasting issue in the Belgacom case is whether an international carrier could substantiate its assurances with preserved evidence about privileged access, running router state, customer-traffic effects and operational continuity.
CASE FILE
Emergency Custody, Not Ownership: The .WED Failure and ICANN’s EBERO Chain
The .WED case is not chiefly a story about a failed registry. It is a test of how contractual emergency powers, escrowed records, root-zone changes and a temporary operator can preserve a top-level domain without deciding who may hold its permanent registry role next. The record…
CASE FILE
When Estonia Split an Identity Card in Two
Estonia’s 2017 eID crisis was not simply a chip failure or an emergency patch. It exposed a boundary: a component could retain formal evaluation credentials while new cryptographic evidence made keys produced through one library unsafe for continued operational reliance. Estonia…
North America Datacenter Trends
Paducah’s proposed AI campus joins a $100bn headline to a 17bn-dollar cleanup ledger
The U.S. Department of Energy has selected Brookfield Asset Management to develop and operate a proposed AI data-centre and energy complex at the government-owned Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant. AP reports a headline value of $100bn, with NextEra expected to build and own 2GW of…
North America Datacenter Trends
Oregon cancelled the Salem land sale; Verrus says the data-centre proposal may still have another route
Gov. Tina Kotek has directed Oregon’s Department of Administrative Services to terminate the state land-sale contract tied to Verrus’s proposed data-centre campus at Mill Creek Corporate Center in southeast Salem. The proposal had been described at about $5.1bn, with three…
Africa National Telecom Trends
UNITEL has contained a cyber incident; Angola is still waiting for a complete recovery ledger
A national mobile network does not return with one switch. UNITEL says phased restoration of voice, data and internet began at 11:45 local time on 29 July after a cyberattack had disrupted those services across Angola. Its 30 July market notice described partial service in 13…
North America National Telecom Trends
FirstNet’s new 5G core moves public safety into a separate network decision room
A different 5G symbol on an emergency worker’s handset would say little about who controls the connection. FirstNet’s consequential change is deeper in the network: subscribers have begun moving to a nationwide standalone 5G core dedicated to public safety and physically separate…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom
KT's 2018 Ahyeon Telecom Fire Made Local Exchange Route Diversity an Accountability Test
A fire in one underground communications conduit became a multi-service disruption because the practical dependency footprint of KT's Ahyeon facility was larger than the failure boundary around it.
North America National Telecom
AT&T's 1990 Long-Distance Outage Made Signaling-System Change Isolation an Accountability Test
A routine switch recovery became a national long-distance disruption because shared signaling software, coupled processor recovery and an insufficiently isolated fleet change allowed one timing-sensitive condition to reproduce across the network.
Europe and Middle East Institutional
DENIC's 2026 .de DNSSEC Failure Made Signing-System Parity an Accountability Test
A routine .de ZSK rollover showed that geographic and hardware redundancy cannot preserve DNS availability when systems distributing a shared zone do not share the same valid cryptographic state.
Africa Institutional
Mauritania's 2018 ACE Cable Cut Made International Path Diversity an Accountability Test
Mauritania’s March-April 2018 connectivity crisis showed that international resilience depends on usable, independent, tested paths and verifiable restoration—not on the mere existence of routes labelled as backups.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
KT’s fine is 225 times the theft the regulator could count
South Korea’s privacy regulator fined KT KRW53.979 billion after a rogue femtocell exposed identifiers belonging to 16,647 people and enabled about KRW240 million of unauthorised mobile payments. The arithmetic is striking: the fine is roughly 225 times the confirmed direct loss.…
North America National Telecom Trends
The Space Force bought 18 launch slots; execution is the scarce asset
Two U.S. Space Force task orders give SpaceX a $1.6 billion campaign of 18 Falcon 9 launches from Vandenberg through the end of 2027. The award does not buy completed constellations. It buys access to a launch system, range infrastructure and operating cadence that can convert…
Asia-Pacific Institutional
Matsu's 2023 Dual Cable Break Made Backup Capacity an Accountability Test
In February 2023, the two operational submarine cables linking Taiwan's main island with the Matsu archipelago failed six days apart. The first failure demonstrated that traffic could move to another cable. The second demonstrated the limit of that design: microwave radio…