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Wholesale Access Economics
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Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Ofcom lets Openreach raise copper prices at 90% coverage
From April 2029, Openreach can gain more pricing freedom in qualifying exchanges before coverage reaches 100%, while unserved premises remain protected.
North America Regional ISP Trends
Clearwave, Visionary agree 17-state fibre merger
The proposed company would reach about 700,000 homes and businesses, expanding Clearwave's footprint into Visionary's western US markets.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Openreach's copper price lever still depends on each address
A lower exchange-wide coverage hurdle gives Openreach more scope to encourage fibre migration. Retailers still have to make that move work for individual customers.
North America Regional ISP Trends
Roanoke changes the bill, not the fibre owner
An October billing change will fold a separate adjustment into electricity rates. Roanoke Cooperative's retained fibre assets and the economics of leasing them to a retail operator do not disappear with the line item.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
PNG's tower pact makes access a two-way bargain
Digicel PNG and Vodafone PNG will be able to seek space on each other's suitable towers. The next test is how a reciprocal framework becomes a working second network at a particular site.
North America National Telecom Trends
Verizon’s 80 Million Fiber Miles Reserve an Input, Not a Finished Network
Eighty million miles sounds like a map. In Verizon’s new Corning agreement, it is better read as an inventory unit: a six-year reservation of glass and connectivity components whose eventual value still depends on routes, crews, electronics, endpoints and customers.
North America National Telecom Trends
Uniti adds border access, not automatic local peering
New wholesale endpoints in McAllen and Chandler expand the places customers can buy transport. The traffic they can exchange locally remains a separate decision.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
Spark's faster data-centre links leave recovery a separate choice
Auckland's new dedicated interconnect service separates optical capacity from optical restoration. Buyers need to decide where continuity will be provided, not infer it from the headline speed.
North America Regional ISP Trends
Vision Net stretches its 800G business beyond Billings
The Discovery Network gives a locally backed operator a longer route to market. Its commercial test is selling useful connections, not winning another speed headline.
North America Regional ISP Trends
LSC’s Second Tenant Changes the Risk, Not the Delivery Gate
A second hyperscale signature can improve the economics of a fibre corridor before it improves the network. The missing evidence lies between contracted demand and a route that is built, accepted and billable.
Global Regional ISP
INFINITYWIFI’s Identity Gap Is the Market Finding
INFINITYWIFI’s Identity Gap Is the Market Finding 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 Global Regional…
Europe and Middle East Regional ISP Trends
OXG’s new funding partner cannot order a fibre customer
Societe Generale S.A. has agreed to buy half of Vodafone’s German fibre venture. The deal addresses the supply of capital; turning installed connections into paid usage is a separate task.
Story
LACNIC’s Voice Primer and the Bandwidth Beyond the Codec
An 8 kbit/s voice encoder can send a 24 kbit/s stream before Ethernet, security and control traffic enter the calculation. LACNIC’s latest telephone explainer points to a distinction that matters when operators turn compression into a capacity budget.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
UK PSTN switch-off leaves 1.5m lines to migrate
About 1.5 million Openreach PSTN lines remain ahead of the January 2027 shutdown, while a survey points to gaps in customer readiness.
North America Cloud Services Trends
ScanSource Buys MicroAge—and the Job of Settling Channel Conflicts
The US$220.5m acquisition gives ScanSource services to sell through its partners and an integrator that already sells to end users. Management says the distributor can adjudicate competing claims. The commercial test is whether that discretion makes partners more willing to bring…
Global Institutional Trends
ScanSource Booked US$161m of Recurring Revenue—and 33.7% of Gross Profit
ScanSource put three figures into its fiscal-2026 record: US$2.88 billion billed by Intelisys suppliers to end users, US$161.209 million of recurring revenue recognised by the company, and 33.7% of total gross profit attributed to recurring revenue. They look like successive…
Global Institutional Trends
Yum Sold Pizza Hut China for US$1.2bn; KFC's 3% Royalty Now Has a 12-Year Rebate
Yum! Brands completed a US$1.2 billion sale that turned Yum China from Pizza Hut's local licensee into the owner of the brand rights in Mainland China. One 3% recurring fee ended with that transfer. Yet the relationship did not end: KFC and Taco Bell remain under a separate…
North America Institutional Trends
Green Dot's US$42.3bn B2B Gross Dollar Volume Rose 22% as Purchase Volume Rose 1%
Green Dot moved US$42.253 billion onto B2B account programmes in its second quarter, US$7.633 billion more than a year earlier. Reported B2B purchase volume increased by only US$25 million. That contrast is not a spending-conversion ratio: the two measures have different…
Leaders
What Mohamed Awang-Lah controlled at MY.NeuTrans—and what he did not
Dr Mohamed Awang-Lah made a consequential structural choice after JARING: he founded a company designed to supply passive network infrastructure to operators without also competing for their retail customers. The public record supports that decision, its implementation and the…
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
An £800m Accordion Is Not a Fibre Roll-Up Budget
CityFibre’s refinancing gives it substantial acquisition capacity, but a facility headline cannot show whether any acquired network has crossed the operational and financial stages needed to service its share of the debt.