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Telecom Spectrum and Security
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Europe and Middle East Cloud Services
OVHcloud made anti-DDoS maintenance a BGP-to-OSPF change-control failure
OVHcloud's October 2021 outage began with planned work intended to strengthen anti-DDoS protection, but the public record describes a routing-control failure rather than a successful attack. A command affecting redistribution from BGP into OSPF caused the full Internet routing…

Asia-Pacific National Telecom
KDDI's 2022 VoLTE outage: when recovery control became the accountability test
A routing error during overnight maintenance lasted only long enough to start the incident. The nationwide service crisis that followed was sustained by something harder to unwind: repeated location-registration requests, congested VoLTE call-control nodes, overloaded subscriber…

North America National Telecom
CenturyLink's 2018 outage showed how an unused management channel became a national failure path
Four malformed packets should not be able to disable a national communications network. Yet in December 2018, four packets generated at one CenturyLink node entered a management channel that the operator knew about but did not use, spread through connected equipment, and helped…

North America National Telecom
T-Mobile's 2020 outage showed how one fiber failure became a national routing cascade
For more than twelve hours on 15 June 2020, a communications failure that began with one leased fiber link spread far beyond the place where the cable problem occurred. Calls failed, text messaging was disrupted, and thousands of attempts to reach 911 did not arrive at public…

North America Institutional Trends
4,407 exposed Rockwell controllers reveal a routing problem, not 4,407 victims
Forescout found 4,407 internet-facing industrial controllers exposing EtherNet/IP in an August 3 query, with a striking concentration on US mobile-carrier networks. The count measures reachability, not compromise. Its value is to show where asset owners, carriers and public…

Europe and Middle East National Telecom
BT's 2023 999 outage showed why an unexercised failover is not emergency continuity
For people trying to reach the UK's emergency services on 25 June 2023, the distinction between a primary platform and its backup was meaningless. What mattered was whether a call connected. BT's emergency-call service was disrupted for approximately 10.5 hours, including a total…

North America National Telecom
Lumen's 2022 Dakota 911 outages showed why backup paths need a real dependency map
Emergency calls failed to reach 11 local 911 centres in western North Dakota because routes described as backups still converged on infrastructure the live call path could not bypass. Five days earlier, a different Lumen outage in South Dakota had already shown another form of…

Europe and Middle East National Telecom
TIM sets out €550m climate plan for networks and data centres
TIM plans about €550 million of network, data-centre and energy measures already included in its industrial roadmap.

Africa Institutional
Rwanda sets 30 June 2027 date for 3G shutdown
Rwanda will retire 3G in June 2027, subject to 4G coverage, reliable voice service and the migration of devices and critical systems.

North America Institutional Trends
China’s US countermeasures turn compliance into a chain of bottlenecks
Beijing’s response to new US restrictions is not one embargo. It combines case-by-case drone export review, named-company prohibitions, a change in who may inspect American factories for Chinese certification and an investigation into printing technology. The economic effect will…

North America National Telecom
Verizon's repeated 2022 911 outages showed the gap between a corrective action and a tested safeguard
A known bad update file returned to Verizon Wireless's live network after an earlier outage. The Federal Communications Commission says the December recurrence then prevented hundreds of 911 calls from completing. For a person trying to reach emergency help, the practical…

Asia-Pacific National Telecom
China Tower and Huawei launch TunnelStar for tunnel 5G coverage
TunnelStar recorded higher coverage and speed in two company-run pilots, but wider deployment will depend on repeatable performance across different tunnel layouts.

Africa Regional ISP
Dimension Data raises ₦4.05bn for Nigeria fibre expansion
The first tranche gives Dimension Data capital for Nigerian fibre expansion, while routes, construction milestones and customer commitments remain undisclosed.

Asia-Pacific National Telecom
MBSB provides Huawei RM400m facility for U Mobile 5G
MBSB’s facility gives Huawei earlier access to cash while U Mobile’s 5G rollout remains tied to equipment delivery, acceptance and activation.

Asia-Pacific National Telecom
MegaFon Tajikistan expands 4G sites and fibre transport
MegaFon Tajikistan upgraded 4G sites and fibre transport in the first half, while its 1.1Gbps 5G result remains a test.

Asia-Pacific National Telecom
Telstra's 18,388 prepaid activations showed why a working identity check can still fall outside the authorised process
Telstra did check identity when it activated the prepaid mobile services examined by Australia's communications regulator. That fact is central to the case, because the Australian Communications and Media Authority, or ACMA, still formed the view that 18,388 activations did not…

Asia-Pacific National Telecom
Lycamobile's 2024 porting failures showed why providers must prove every identity check actually ran
A mobile number is easy to mistake for a line in an account record. In practice, it is a route through which calls, messages and security codes reach a person. When that number is moved to a new provider, operational control moves too. Australia's communications regulator found…

Asia-Pacific National Telecom
Southern Phone's 2024–2025 porting failures showed why number-transfer controls need continuous testing
A mobile number can look like a simple contact detail, but in everyday life it often works as a key. Banks send one-time codes to it. Friends, employers and service providers use it to identify the person they expect to reach. Moving that number to a new carrier therefore changes…

Asia-Pacific National Telecom
Optus's 2021–2023 IPND failures showed why outsourcing a data feed does not outsource accountability
A carrier can hire another company to prepare and send a regulatory data feed. It cannot hire away responsibility for the result. Australia's communications regulator found that required public-number customer information for Optus services was not supplied to the Integrated…

Asia-Pacific National Telecom
Aussie Broadband's 2022 IPND failures showed why an emergency database needs a working feedback loop
An emergency database can receive files every day and still drift away from reality if nobody checks what came back. In 2022, Australia's communications regulator found that Aussie Broadband had not supplied or updated required public-number records on time, while an…
