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Telecom Spectrum and Security
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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.

North America Institutional Trends
CONX closed at 75%; EchoStar still has an 80.1% route
CONX now controls HC2 Broadcasting and appoints two of its three directors. Yet the closing did not freeze the cap table: INNOVATE can buy part of the business back, and EchoStar retains a separate route to become the 80.1% owner.

IETF
When 5G Slice Intent Reaches the Transport Network: RFC 9889 and the Handoff Control Boundary
An S-NSSAI that the transport domain cannot see must cross a handoff through a VLAN, IP or MPLS identifier before it can be bound to a transport service. That identifier is a translation point, not a complete promise of isolation, quality or capacity.

IETF
When Caller Identity Leaves SIP: RFC 9888 and the Control Plane Behind Out-of-Band STIR
A call can cross a gateway that cannot preserve an SIP Identity header while the PASSporT moves separately over HTTPS to a destination service provider’s Call Placement Service (CPS). RFC 9888 therefore treats caller-identity delivery as a control-plane problem: discover the…

North America National Telecom Trends
Clearfield adds WAV distribution channel
Clearfield will use WAV to distribute its fibre, cabinet and power products to wireless and broadband providers across the US and Canada.

Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
MasOrange tests 6GHz radio technology with Ericsson
MasOrange has tested 6GHz spectrum with 256TR active antennas and beamforming as it evaluates radio technology for future 6G deployment.

Africa National Telecom Trends
BTC targets October 5G launch with 599-site upgrades
BTC plans to launch 5G in selected parts of Gaborone in October while upgrading capacity at 599 mobile sites and moving fixed customers off copper.

IETF
A Header Allowed Here Is Not Trusted Everywhere: RFC 9878 and SIP P-Header Scope
A call can fail at the trust boundary when a sender puts a P-Header in a SIP message that its receiver believes must not contain it. One implementation strips the field, another rejects the message, and a third accepts it. The disagreement can affect charging context…

Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Telefónica’s RedCap meter test goes beyond the radio link
A German trial connected a prototype gateway to the metering operator’s back office over 700 MHz. The next commercial question is whether the complete chain can be supported across years of field use.

Asia-Pacific Institutional Trends
C-DOT unveils 14 quantum-security products
C-DOT has unveiled 14 QKD and post-quantum products for communications networks, moving its quantum-security work into named hardware and software systems.

Asia-Pacific National Telecom
SoftBank completes Japan HAPS trial ahead of 2027 service
The trial connected ordinary smartphones through a high-altitude platform over Japan as SoftBank works towards commercial HAPS services from 2027 onward.

Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
Maxis to fibre 151 Melaka telecom towers
Maxis will fibre-connect 151 MICTH towers in Melaka under a RM30 million programme replacing microwave backhaul.

Europe and Middle East National Telecom
Orange acquires Obvios's Dome private 5G core
The acquisition brings Dome's private 5G core and its developers into Orange Business for defence and critical-infrastructure deployments.

Global National Telecom Trends
Phoenix Tower signs $6.5bn global financing package
PTI’s $6.5bn financing will refinance debt and add funding for capex and acquisitions, with closing targeted by the end of September.

North America National Telecom Trends
Optimum expands T-Mobile deal for standalone 5G
Optimum is connecting its own mobile core to T-Mobile's standalone 5G network, with a full launch expected in early 2027.
