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Telecom Spectrum and Security
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Global National Telecom Trends
GSMA urges governments to release upper 6GHz spectrum
The GSMA is pressing governments to make upper 6GHz spectrum available for mobile networks as countries take different approaches to the band.

Africa National Telecom
Telecel completes 1,890 4G site upgrades in Ghana
Telecel has completed about 70% of its 2026 4G site-upgrade target in Ghana, with 808 sites still to be upgraded.

Asia-Pacific National Telecom
Telstra launches 5G slice for Microsoft Teams
Telstra is prioritising Microsoft Teams traffic on a dedicated 5G slice for business sites that need more predictable video-call performance.

Asia-Pacific National Telecom
Telkominfra offers managed laser links with Transcelestial
Telkominfra will install and maintain Transcelestial laser links for sites where fibre delays hold up mobile, enterprise and campus connectivity.

Global National Telecom Trends
GSMA pushes full upper 6GHz band for mobile
GSMA says the mobile industry is ready for upper 6GHz deployment, but national spectrum rules will decide what operators can actually use.

Asia-Pacific National Telecom
Surge targets 9,800 FWA sites for 2027
Surge plans to expand its FWA network to 9,800 sites in 2027 while guiding to a 50–60% long-term EBITDA margin.

Asia-Pacific Institutional Trends
Papua adds temporary broadband at Lake Sentani Festival
Papua and Telkom used three load-balanced IndiBiz links to support connectivity during the Lake Sentani Festival.

Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
XLSMART Surabaya 5G exceeds 1,200 base stations
XLSMART says more than 1,200 5G base stations support Surabaya, while its national footprint now covers over 50 cities and regencies.

Asia-Pacific National Telecom
Claron Fibreoptics targets 300,000km cable output
Claron Fibreoptics plans to double annual optical-fibre cable capacity to 300,000km over the next year as it targets BharatNet and FTTH demand.

Asia-Pacific National Telecom
Jio marks 10 years with 533.3 million subscribers
Jio marks a decade with 533.3 million subscribers and a network spanning 4G, 5G, fibre, and fixed wireless.

CASE FILE
SCONE Can Carry a Rate, Not the Policy That Chose It
SCONE makes a network's throughput advice visible to a QUIC application. What crosses the path is a number. The subscriber plan, traffic classification, load decision, responsible operator and correction route that produced it do not travel with the signal. That is a sound…

Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
KT extends 5G slicing to CCTV at Seoul fireworks
KT used a 5G SA slice to carry real-time CCTV video and emergency communications at Seoul's fireworks festival, extending an earlier large-event trial.

Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
China opens industrial 5G standalone private-network pilot
China’s industrial 5G pilot lets approved enterprises build dedicated private networks around production needs.

Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
BSNL 4G network carries 6PB of data daily
BSNL's indigenous 4G network is serving 22–23 million users across 100,000 sites, shifting attention from rollout to live network performance.

Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
4iG plans Starlink Mobile launch in Hungary and Albania
4iG will start with Hungary and Albania, then extend a later 2GHz 5G NTN service to Montenegro and North Macedonia.

North America Institutional Trends
Qorvo’s Bond Guardrails Have a Closing Clock, Not a Refinance
Qorvo’s noteholders have already made a consequential choice in the pending Skyworks transaction. By 11 June they had supplied enough consents to amend two bond indentures, and the supplemental documents became effective that day. Yet the same public record says the amendments do…

IETF
Four Radios, One Control Problem: What RFC 9913 Reveals About RAW's Capability Plane
Four radio technologies can each advertise scheduling or redundancy while exposing different clocks, resource units, diversity primitives and failure correlations; their feature names are therefore not interchangeable assurance promises. This briefing by Theo March examines how…

IETF
The Fast Path Is a Recovery Graph: RFC 9912 Moves Wireless Reliability Into the Network Plane
Wireless conditions can change faster than a controller can install a new route, so RAW preinstalls a finite recovery graph and lets a Point of Local Repair select protection paths locally. That is the architectural move: reliability becomes a network-plane control problem, not a…

IETF
Shrink the Trust Domain: RFC 9898 and the IPv6 Neighbor-Discovery Isolation Choice
On one IPv6 access segment, three different root causes can surface together: multicast load, implicit trust of every on-link node, and router Neighbor Cache Entries created on demand. The practical question is therefore not which symptom to patch, but which part of the Neighbor…

IETF
Authenticated Is Not Reachable: RFC 9897 and the MP-DCCP Path-Join Boundary
An authenticated `MP_ADDADDR` advertisement is control data, not permission to send traffic on a new path. That path becomes usable only when `MP_JOIN` binds a new subflow to the original connection and completes the nonce/HMAC reachability handshake.
