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Telecom Spectrum and Security
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Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Two Shipping Groups Asked for More Time. Ofcom Gave Old MOB AIS Beacons Through 2031
Legacy man-overboard AIS beacons can stay on licences through 2031, after two maritime groups challenged Ofcom’s original timetable. New authorisations still stop in January 2027.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
The City Pass Covers 8 GHz. One Satellite Downlink Still Needs an Invitation.
Ofcom has opened urban gateway applications across 68 high-density areas. Up to 8 GHz now has a standard route; one useful downlink band still asks each site to make its own case.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
A Spectrum Licence Goes First. The Transmitter Still Has Homework.
ACMA will license an area and frequency range before it coordinates the transmitter that might use them. The map can be approved while the antenna is still filling out forms.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
PNG’s 5G: Two Bands, One Clock, No Freelance Timekeeping
NICTA says it is ready to issue 5G licences in 2.6 GHz and 3.5 GHz. In the 2.6 GHz band, the rulebook already contains one unusually practical instruction: every licensee must keep time with the others.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Britain’s Cable Plan Has Two Security Settings—and One Is Missing a Word
The UK wants to regulate fibre that can listen to the seabed, control who handles its data and order cable or repair firms to act in a national-security crisis. Its new White Paper sets out the machinery. It also gives the proposed direction power two different thresholds…
Latin America and Caribbean National Telecom Trends
Arcep’s 465,000 mobile tests leave two territories in the queue
The regulator’s 2026 survey covers five Caribbean and South American territories, with results from Réunion and Mayotte still to come. It also changes the test baseline: Guadeloupe and Martinique joined the 5G measurement map for the first time.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom
Telia Put the Night Shift on the Price List. The Price Is a Phone Call.
Telia’s new Secure 24/7 service gives smaller businesses a staffed security centre through the hours when the office lights are off. The product page publishes prices for backup and basic security, then sends buyers to sales for the people who answer at 03:00.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
Indonesia’s 5G Spectrum Awards Put a Five-Year Clock on Coverage
Indonesia has turned new 700 MHz and 2.6 GHz spectrum into a public coverage commitment: at least 51% of the national population is to receive 5G by the fifth year after spectrum permits are issued. The obligation is measurable only if the start date, committed places and…
CASE FILE
The 6G Positioning Project Has Two Public Timelines
A new Ericsson, KTH and NTU initiative promises to make location estimates more dependable when walls and other obstacles defeat a clear signal. Its own public records leave a more basic question open: when did the work begin, and what exactly begins next November?
Asia-Pacific National Telecom
Indus Towers: A Brokerage's Rent Assumption Is Not a Rent Payment
Kotak has written down the premise that carries a good part of the investment case for India's listed tower operator — that a financially stretched tenant will go on paying its rent. The same report records a 65 percentage point gap between the tenant's shares and the landlord's…
Europe and Middle East National Telecom
Telefonica de Espana: public remedy, unreadable access price
Spain's competition and telecom regulator keeps a public file on the wholesale market where rivals buy the use of an incumbent's network. The file, the regulator's press page and the operator's own results page were all retrieved. None of them yielded a price, a volume or a…
CASE FILE
AGCOM’s 191 Million Blocks Measure Filtering, Not Fraud Prevented
Italy’s regulator reports 191 million blocked call attempts in eight months and €822,500 in fines against two companies. The measures describe two different controls; neither figure counts proven victims or losses avoided.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
Australia’s UOMO law adds a separate terrestrial reliability track
Parliamentary passage moves Australia’s Universal Outdoor Mobile Obligation beyond the proposal stage, but it does not collapse every mobile-policy question into one coverage promise. The amended framework distinguishes an outdoor voice-and-SMS duty from a later track for…
CASE FILE
Helios Towers: Four Reported Numbers and a Missing Cash-Flow Chain
Helios Towers' half-year summary records EBITDA up 14 per cent, recurring free cash flow up 52 per cent and leverage down to 3.4x. None of those movements can be checked against the lease-up mechanism said to produce them, because the account available today stops at the headline…
North America National Telecom
Array Digital Infrastructure: A US$517m Half-Year Profit and US$53m of Quarterly Rent
The company that kept UScellular's towers and much of its spectrum now reports four different things at once — recurring site rent, spectrum-sale consideration, a half-year profit and a balance sheet — and not one of them measures the others.
North America National Telecom
Frontier's conditions name four duties and specify none
The Verizon–Frontier transaction closed on 20 January 2026. The last approval on the public record attached conditions under four headings — affordability, service quality, infrastructure investment, and workforce and supplier diversity — and nothing obtainable turns those…
North America Regional ISP
Plateau Telecommunications: What the Record Does Not Show
A rural operator's buildout is normally read off three numbers — route miles, homes passed, subscribers — and those numbers look identical whether the capital behind them arrived as customer revenue or as universal-service support and rural-development credit. For Plateau…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
ACMA’s 6 GHz Wi-Fi plan puts AFC providers on the compliance hook
Australia’s regulator is weighing standard-power Wi-Fi in 6 GHz, with access mediated by accredited frequency-coordination providers. Early trials have exposed a less visible test: keeping incumbent licence data synchronized well enough for those providers to carry the…
Asia-Pacific Institutional Trends
ACMA’s 6 GHz plan puts accredited AFC providers at the point of access
Australia’s regulator is consulting on a class-licence route for standard-power Wi-Fi. The proposed gate is an accredited coordination provider, whose records and audit duties are still being designed.
North America National Telecom Trends
The FCC’s new device rule reaches the online listing
The FCC’s October rule reaches beyond the manufacturer and into the online offer. Its new component and marketplace controls matter, but an FCC ID remains an authorization reference—not a complete supply-chain certificate.