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Wholesale Access Economics
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Latin America and Caribbean National Telecom
Vivo Built Fibre to 32 Million Homes. Three in Four Pay Nothing.
Telefónica Brasil has finished the expensive part of a fibre build and started the awkward part of a fibre business: persuading the households above its cable to buy it, without buying them with discounts it cannot take back.
Latin America and Caribbean National Telecom Trends
American Tower’s Latin America revenue rose. The tenant billings went the other way.
The tower landlord reported 10% more Latin American revenue in the third quarter. Currency translation supplied most of the increase, while customer cancellations, chiefly in Brazil, pushed the region’s tenant billings down. A fuller top line can hide an emptier lease register.
North America Institutional
Harmonic Sold $149m of Broadband. Its Combined Backlog and Deferrals Fell $54m.
Harmonic had the kind of quarter that makes a results slide look impatient: broadband sales leapt, more customers bought outside its two biggest accounts, and the year-end revenue target rose. Then the combined backlog-and-deferrals balance took a step back. The gap is where this…
History
Excite@Home Went Bankrupt. The Cable Stayed; Operators Rebuilt the Service.
The neighborhood cable line could still reach the house. The company supplying much of the Internet service behind it was failing. In 2001–02, AT&T, Cox and Comcast faced different deadlines to take back the work Excite@Home had done for them, and the transition appeared on their…
North America Regional ISP Trends
Tucows’ Lease Is Due to Move in March. Its Customer Handoff Can Run to June.
Colorado Springs owns the fiber. Tucows’ Ting unit rents it and sells service. A new tenant is lined up, but the lease, the parent guarantee and the retail customers each have a different exit date. The transfer agreement turns one corporate announcement into three tests of who…
North America National Telecom
AT&T Lowers Its Capital Plan. The Fibre Target Still Counts Other Networks.
AT&T has moved its 2027 and 2028 capital-investment ranges down by $1 billion a year while keeping a target of more than 60 million fibre-reached locations by 2030. The location count includes networks built through ventures and other open-access providers. The spending plan and…
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Openreach Tried to Buy the Next Fibre Customer Cheap. Ofcom Drew the Line at the Duct.
Ofcom killed one targeted wholesale fibre discount and let the others stand. Its test was whether a reasonably efficient rival buying duct access could still recover the cost of winning that customer.
CASE FILE
The CRTC Wants to See Through the Black Bars in a Roaming Fight
Videotron and SaskTel are arguing over wholesale roaming in Saskatchewan. Before the regulator rules on the dispute, it wants to know whether the public can see which negotiations or arbitrations happened, and how they ended, while the prices stay under cover.
North America National Telecom Trends
Canada’s Roaming Dispute Redacted Even the Headings
CRTC staff wants to know why the public record hides the existence of negotiations, arbitration and agreements in a Saskatchewan wholesale roaming fight. The prices can stay private; the outline of the case is another matter.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Eircom's €50 gift card came with a favourite fibre network
The household would get the present. The wholesale network would get the connection. An Irish promotion dispute shows how a consumer reward can change the economics of access while leaving the familiar price list looking perfectly respectable.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Sweden’s 5,000-Home Fibre Line Faces Brussels’ Test
PTS sent Brussels 63 draft decisions for local fibre markets. The Commission has opened a review of how Sweden drew its 5,000-home line and whether one remedy set fits them all.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Proximus wholesale revenue fell 8.1% as fibre volumes rose
Proximus reported a €5 million fall in wholesale revenue for the third quarter, even as fixed and mobile wholesale services grew and fibre volumes increased. The difference sits in the business mix and a changed consolidation boundary.
Europe and Middle East Institutional Trends
Sweden Drew a 5,000-Connection Fibre Line. Brussels Wants the Math.
PTS has proposed wholesale-access duties for fibre owners above 5,000 single-dwelling connections and no advance regulation below that line. The European Commission has opened a Phase II review, asking whether the number can do that much legal work.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
BT could move the deadline. Its clock could not move back
A successful appeal could leave an Ethernet customer with the wrong compensation calculation. The old case exposes the financial power hiding inside a delivery-date field.
Global Cloud Services Trends
Bandwidth’s Q3 retention reaches 113%; $3m of campaign revenue is not expected back in 2027
Bandwidth’s Q3 net retention rose eight percentage points from a year earlier, and the filing attributes the increase primarily to commercial messaging. The same filing separately identifies about $3m of political-campaign messaging revenue ahead of the U.S. midterms, which the…
Africa National Telecom Trends
Uganda Wants 4,000 Wi-Fi Resellers on a List Before It Names Their Licence
UCC says thousands of public Wi-Fi sellers must register as it decides how they fit a licensing system that already allows regional service and capacity resale. The register is moving faster than the answer.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
KPN passed six million homes. Its wholesale broadband book still shrank.
The cable is in the street; the invoice has farther to travel. KPN crossed six million fibre homes passed in the Netherlands during the third quarter, yet its wholesale broadband base lost 11,000 lines. The gap between reach and use is where the next return on construction must…
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Norway retired a mobile voice rulebook. The 2.34-øre ceiling stayed on duty.
Norway has stopped assigning special obligations to mobile networks for receiving one another's calls. The wholesale price still has a guardrail: an EEA-wide ceiling, converted into Norwegian kroner each year. The commercial question has moved from who carries a special…
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Hull’s Regulated Dark Fibre Gets Three Years. New Buyers Get None.
Ofcom dropped the new-access obligation and shortened the proposed protection for existing circuits from five years to three. The incumbent keeps a commercial option; the statutory duty expires.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Ofcom Closes Hull’s Dark-Fibre Door. Existing Circuits Get Three Years.
Ofcom has removed the rule that made KCOM supply regulated dark fibre in Hull. Customers with existing circuits keep a regulated bridge until October 2029; anyone seeking a new route must use a different route to market.