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Public-sector Continuity
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Leaders
Seat Three Without Dates: What the Registry's Board Page Records About Kaleem Ahmed Usmani
Five columns, eight rows and a term written as a duration: that is what the regional registry's own board page now shows against the Indian Ocean constituency, with Kaleem Ahmed Usmani's name in the third row. The cyber-response office his public record attaches him to appears on…
Asia-Pacific Institutional Trends
Singapore set a 2031 quantum-safe target for critical systems. The inventory comes first
Singapore’s new milestones make cryptographic discovery the near-term test: a deadline cannot move a dependency an organization has not found.
CASE FILE
Documented, Not Established: ICANN's Emergency Registry Backstop and the Terms Nobody Has Read
A failed registry should be a bad day for one company, not for every registrant in a top-level domain. The emergency back-end arrangement that carries that promise is documented. What makes it callable — a live designation, a binding trigger, funded readiness, a tested handoff…
North America Datacenter Trends
Texas’s data-center permit pause now runs on two clocks
Texas’s data-center permit pause has two reporting checkpoints, neither stated as an automatic expiry. TCEQ’s update is due 19 October and ERCOT’s report is planned by 10 December; the signed instruction keeps TCEQ’s pause in place until ERCOT completes its review.
Africa National Telecom Trends
South Africa Has a Wayleave Template. It Still Needs Municipal Adoption
South Africa’s next broadband build rule is being written in three places at once. The decisive test is whether a national template can travel through municipal adoption, permits and budgets without being mistaken for a permit itself.
Africa National Telecom Trends
Congo's digital plan has approval. What happens after the meeting?
The steering committee can help ministries work together. Its next challenge is less photogenic: turning agreed tasks into services people can actually use.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
Indonesia's public mobile network needs a successor, not just an end date
Calling a network temporary is easy. Deciding when its users can safely move on is harder. Indonesia's mobile-broadband draft puts that question into its red-zone rules: a carrier must match or improve coverage, availability and quality before state provision ends. The existing…
Europe and Middle East Institutional
The British Library kept its backups. Getting the library back was harder.
The 2023 attack left copies of the digital collections intact but wrecked the systems needed to use them. The recovery record is more revealing than a simple verdict of failure or success.
Latin America and Caribbean National Telecom Trends
In Chile's cable clean-up, silence can sign off the work
A municipality has 30 days to answer a handover request before acceptance is presumed. That keeps the paperwork moving. It does not tell a resident what happened at the pole.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom
Telecom Italia: the takeover ended, but the cash question did not
TIM's chief executive joined the takeover offer as a shareholder too. But this was not a simple cash exit: part of the price was a stake in the buyer. Behind that exchange sits a business whose network, debts and cash receipts have already changed profoundly.
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
Amazon Leo has an Army speed result. The customer story is still taking shape
A laptop connection at Aberdeen Proving Ground gave Amazon a striking number. The more revealing question is what the Army's engineers want from commercial satellite companies after a demonstration ends.
Story
AFRINIC's receiver was named in the court papers all along
An appointment order, a letter from ICANN and a pending discharge application tell a more useful story than an allegedly anonymous supervisor: how a registry keeps making decisions while its leadership changes.
North America National Telecom
When Rogers went down, the repair team lost its way in
The 2022 outage exposed a trap: the connections needed to fix the network depended on the network itself. The public record now shows what Rogers changed—and what still needs testing.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
AusAlert's 94% result counted towers, not phones
Australia's national warning test cleared its broadcast benchmark. A letter written five weeks earlier shows why emergency officials wanted to know what happened at the other end.
Latin America and Caribbean National Telecom Trends
Sercomtel's exit from the old phone contract has a price—and a delivery address
The Brazilian operator's settlement turns a dispute over a fixed-line concession into commitments to mobile coverage and school connectivity. Reading the price correctly is the first step towards judging what the public gets.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
Tejas has started BSNL RAN supply. The service proof comes later
Tejas says supply began for 18,865 BSNL add-on sites. LOI, shipment, installation, on-air status and service outcomes remain distinct milestones.
Story
Timor-Leste widens its cyber committee’s brief; agencies keep delivery
Timor-Leste has given a new interministerial committee a remit spanning cybersecurity, data and digital government. The order that created it also draws a boundary: the committee coordinates and oversees, while ministries and public bodies still implement the projects.
Europe and Middle East Institutional Trends
Ofgem leans toward EMPRIS, but grid-data accountability would stay with DNOs
Ofgem’s minded-to preference gives ElectraLink’s existing platform the delivery edge, while its proposed licence route leaves DNOs directly accountable for the register’s performance.
Asia-Pacific Institutional Trends
AER’s draft hydrogen exemptions carry an access-request trigger
The Australian Energy Regulator proposes letting Australian Gas Networks keep two hydrogen trials inside its gas-network business for five years. A formal third-party access request would prompt reassessment, though it would not automatically end the proposed exemptions.