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Wholesale Access Economics
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Asia-Pacific National Telecom
Samoa’s cable reliability promise needs an instrument with a date on it
Samoa’s international capacity is bought rather than switched on. A licensed provider signs wholesale terms with Samoa Submarine Cable Company, and since 22 January 2026 the document governing that purchase is Order 2026/T01. The order tells a buyer how capacity is sold. It does…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom
Naming the cable operator is not the same as documenting access
Naming the cable operator is not the same as documenting access intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure consequences that may follow. The…
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…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom
NBN Co is closing the capacity dial its retailers spent a decade turning
For years the wholesale tariff priced two different things: a monthly charge per service and a separate charge per megabit of busy-hour capacity. The record available to this desk on 18 October 2026 says the second is being folded into the first. That is reported rather than…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom
The Overland Majority: What Bangladesh's Submarine Capacity Numbers Do Not Measure
On 18 October 2026 the operator's own September figures put roughly 7.2 Tbps of submarine capacity at its disposal and roughly 3.2 Tbps of that unsold, while the last measured national split, dated March, put its two cable systems at about 4.2 Tbps combined against consumption…
Latin America and Caribbean Datacenter
Ascenty: The Megawatt That Travels Without Its Basis
Brazil's data-centre buildout is routinely described in megawatts, but the documents gathered for this report on 18 October 2026 contain no megawatt figure for Ascenty Data Centers e Telecomunicações S/A at all — and that gap is the story, because the unit itself is doing work…
North America National Telecom Trends
Ottawa’s 2008 access agreement kept relocation costs with Videotron
A 2008 municipal access agreement continued to govern Ottawa transmission equipment after a chain of corporate transfers brought it under Videotron. The CRTC’s decision shows why ownership records and right-of-way contracts need to travel together through an acquisition.
North America National Telecom Trends
Canada opens wireless number-porting systems to full MVNOs
The CRTC has let registered full mobile virtual network operators port numbers through the shared system directly. Its ruling separates that right from ownership of the radio network and leaves the consortium responsible for the rule changes that make access workable.
Africa National Telecom Trends
Morocco’s first non-licensee FTTH offer sets terms, not coverage
Morocco’s regulator has approved a passive fibre access offer from Uni Fiber, a joint venture outside the licensed operators themselves. The decision makes the reach of access rules more important than the label on the network owner: it governs infrastructure Uni Fiber…
North America National Telecom Trends
Canada let mobile challengers sell first. Now it wants to see the build.
Freedom Mobile offered Manitobans a new provider before announcing plans for its own local network. Canada now wants to know how far its mobile challengers have travelled from selling service to building the infrastructure behind it.
North America National Telecom Trends
SWIFT built the fibre. Who gets to sell a service over it?
Thousands of interconnection points and a public stake in the infrastructure sound like a recipe for competition. A Canadian ruling shows why the ingredients still need putting together.
CASE FILE
China Tower has new customers. Its profits still owe a debt to old towers
Delivery riders and forest-monitoring services are expanding the tower owner's business. But a jump in profit owes much to a quieter change: old assets reaching the end of their depreciation.
North America Regional ISP Trends
EarthLink’s 68 million-home reach is an option, not a customer base
WaveDivision Capital, The Pritzker Organization and Stephens Capital Partners have announced a plan to acquire EarthLink alongside its management. The company pairs more than 500,000 internet and managed-services customers with partner-based fiber reach to over 68 million homes…
Europe and Middle East National Telecom
Telecom Italia: control settled at 85.82%, and part of the price was the buyer's own paper
Poste Italiane's offer closed with 85.82% of Telecom Italia, short of the 90% that a market report describes as the level for delisting, and the improved terms paid EUR 1.97 in cash plus 0.218 newly issued Poste Italiane shares for each Telecom Italia share tendered. Four months…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom
Two Landing Stations, One Operator: What Bangladesh's Submarine Capacity Figures Actually Establish
Bangladesh's international bandwidth comes ashore at two beaches and, on the public record, through one company. In October 2026 that company put a number on its own position, and the number closes arithmetically in one rendering of the statement and not in the other. This is a…
Africa National Telecom Trends
Nigeria’s MVNO hearing drew 190 people online. The next test is in the rulebook
A room can be full and the decision trail can still be hard to see. Nigeria’s communications regulator reports 190 virtual attendees at its July hearing on mobile virtual network operator rules, but the more consequential measure will be whether a reader can follow a stakeholder…
North America National Telecom Trends
Canada’s MVNO framework faces a network-expansion evidence test
The CRTC’s mid-course information request links wholesale agreements to customers, radio sites and capital. It can show what happened alongside access; without a comparable baseline, it cannot show what access caused.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
State Aid Builds Fibre. Wholesale Access Still Has to Work.
Public funding can build fibre networks, but a formal wholesale-access obligation does not guarantee that competing providers can order, receive and use a suitable input. BEREC’s draft report examines the distinction between required products and practical access, against a…
History
Honduras Opened Internet Service to ISPs, but Kept Leased-Line Sales
Hondutel said five internet service providers and four organisations were directly connected in March 1996. A year later, one provider said private firms could sell dial-up but not dedicated service—an opening shaped by who controlled the circuit.
North America National Telecom Trends
Canada lets full MVNOs move numbers without their host carrier
Canada’s wireless-porting rules long treated a mobile virtual network operator as a reseller whose host carrier had to move the customer’s number. A new CRTC decision recognizes that a full MVNO may run the mobile core switch where porting happens, even while another company…