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Telecom Spectrum and Security
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North America National Telecom Trends
The CRTC rejected one imported-phone case. Canada still needs a public VoLTE test
The Commission’s September letter decided that one complaint did not justify a public proceeding. That is a defensible case-level result; it is not a finding that every carrier compatibility rule works, or that Canada has a nationwide VoLTE failure. The public record makes a…
North America National Telecom Trends
Eastlink’s 5G Core Is Finished. The Return Still Has to Reach the Field
Eastlink has completed a mobile-core transformation and committed another $12 million to modernization, including new sites. The investment becomes a service result only when those sites, network performance and customer use can be measured.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Ofcom wants satellite rules updated before countries go it alone
A 25-year-old international interference framework is under pressure as large non-geostationary constellations expand. Ofcom’s proposed two-stage reform would loosen a few constraints by 2027, then give the ITU until 2031 to reconsider the system on evidence—an attempt to…
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Ofcom’s spectrum test licence needs a commercial bridge
Britain issues hundreds of temporary spectrum licences each year, yet a successful test still leaves its operator facing a fresh authorisation decision before ordinary commercial service. Ofcom’s review asks how to close that gap while protecting incumbents and keeping future…
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Poland’s draft makes six hours a test of which mobile sites count
A proposed Polish power rule ties longer backup at mobile sites to the operator’s own view of which locations matter most to continuity. The hard question is how that classification will be evidenced.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Italy’s reversible 3G test carries the full shutdown burden
AGCOM has authorized Wind Tre to block UMTS access on selected customer profiles while leaving the radio carrier on air. The regulator says a switch that can be reversed inside the network still counts as a real loss for users while it is active.
Africa National Telecom Trends
Vodacom’s KwaZulu-Natal billion-rand plan needs a delivery ledger
Vodacom has announced another billion-rand network programme for KwaZulu-Natal. The useful test is no longer how large the cheque sounds, but whether residents can trace it from planned radio, transmission and backup-power spend to dated assets and measured service.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Ooredoo’s 5G+ launch is a product footprint, not a national speed shift
Ooredoo Qatar’s 15 October launch announcement describes higher speeds, capacity and lower latency. Its live product page gives the more useful boundary: selected locations in Doha and Sealine, five eligible Data SIM+ plans, and two supported hotspot models. That makes the launch…
History
Star Radio’s Web Bulletins Returned Before Its Shortwave Signal: Liberia, 1998
In October 1998, Liberia briefly ordered local media to stop publishing online. Star Radio resumed its Internet bulletins within weeks, but the government’s separate revocation of its shortwave frequency remained in force. The two decisions exposed different controls over…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
CelcomDigi Paid for Spectrum; the Formal Assignment Is Still Pending
The RM381.75 million payment makes the commercial commitment concrete. CelcomDigi’s own filing says the regulatory instrument that would confer the proposed rights has not yet been issued, leaving the award between selection and authorization.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
DOCOMO’s multi-vendor RAN turns openness into an operating test
NTT DOCOMO says Nokia’s latest base-station equipment entered commercial service in September with radio units from more than one supplier. The claim is narrow, but its significance is practical: the question has moved from whether an interface is open to who can install…
Story
Digitel’s IPv6 Transition Had a Second Clock in Its Records
Venezuela’s IPv6 rule measures a network’s ability to carry the protocol. Digitel’s account points to a separate test: whether its subscriber records could identify the address used at a particular time. The public evidence does not show that the rule prescribed a CDR field.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Orange’s final 2G wave leaves millions of device SIMs to move
Orange says most of metropolitan France will lose its 2G signal by 20 October, with regulated white zones following later. The harder question is whether services built around quiet, embedded SIMs have been found, replaced and tested.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
StarHub’s MyRepublic deal makes subscriber migration part of the price
The proposed purchase does not pay for a network move alone. Its formula counts customers who migrate, remain active and have their contracts transferred by completion.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Ofcom’s Q2 update tracks mobile traffic growth, but not its value per gigabyte
Mobile data volume rose 13.2% year on year, while Ofcom’s estimated data-services revenue line fell 2.6%. The mismatch is a measurement question, not a price-per-GB result.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Ofcom Can Oversee Resilience; Providers Still Have to Restore the Network
Ofcom can set expectations and enforce duties, but communications providers still design, operate and restore networks. Its mobile-power model shows why service, duration and coverage must be measured separately.
History
Latvia’s First Wireless Internet Link Joined Two University Sites, 1993
In Riga, weak telephone infrastructure made an ordinary wired connection a poor fit for one university route. LATNET adapted inexpensive spread-spectrum wireless LAN equipment to bridge about five kilometres between University of Latvia campuses, turning a local workaround into…
Africa National Telecom Trends
South Africa’s public-institution rollout advances, but 49.1% does not reconcile
South Africa reported a sharp rise in the number of public-service institutions connected under spectrum licences, but its latest headline percentage does not match the two counts it publishes. Three of five operators crossed the March milestone; two did not.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
Optus counts resilience inputs; its outage register records the harder test
Optus says it added 200 generators and expanded backup batteries at priority sites. A newly published outage record offers an outcome to examine, but the public evidence cannot connect the two—and does not show whether the equipment succeeded or failed.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
India’s broadband total counts 91 million more M2M links
TRAI’s August tally reaches 1.101 billion broadband subscriptions when cellular machine-to-machine connections are included. The same release reports 1.010 billion without them. That 90.93 million difference is a definition boundary, not a count of additional people online.