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Wholesale Access Economics
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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.
Global National Telecom Trends
A Satellite Footprint Is Not a Wholesale Mobile Entitlement
A direct-to-device coverage map can show where a satellite beam might reach; it cannot show whether a mobile operator has bought, integrated and accepted a service that will carry a particular subscriber’s traffic there.
North America Regional ISP Trends
The Dollar Before the Splice: Lumen’s Prepaid Fibre Test
At Lumen Technologies, customer cash can arrive while a long-haul network is still an unfinished physical system: before the final splice is made, before optics are commissioned across the route, and before service has satisfied the conditions needed for customer delivery and…
Global Regional ISP Trends
Hyperoptic coverage is not serviceable until the building says yes
A broadband map can colour an address as covered before anyone has secured the right to open the riser, use the shared duct or enter the corridor that leads to the flat. Hyperoptic’s own installation documents show why the useful unit of coverage is not the postcode but the…
APRICOT
One Forwarder, 64,000 Subscribers: The Failure Domain Inside APRICOT 2026's x86 BNG
One 144-core processor, one packet forwarder and 64,000 subscriber states: the most revealing number in 5x9 Networks' APRICOT 2026 presentation is not 1.6 Tbps. It is the number of access sessions brought into one execution domain while repeated cache state was removed.
Global National Telecom
Boldyn's £1bn Tube network must earn its 20-year lock-in
Four mobile operators can share one radio and fibre layer beneath London instead of attempting four separate builds. That is sensible engineering. It is also a twenty-year concentration of operating power, financed before the network produces mature cash. Boldyn has to prove that…
Global National Telecom Trends
An IRU Buys the Strand, Not the Road Around It
A dark-fibre contract can name a strand, reserve it for twenty years and make it feel like an owned asset. The harder question begins one layer out: who controls the ducts, access, power, maintenance, relocation and remedies that keep that strand useful when the route changes or…
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Deutsche Telekom agrees €1bn acquisition of Fiberhost and Inea
The deal would give T-Mobile Polska an owned 1.4-million-home fibre network while Fiberhost remains open to competing service providers.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Kyivstar and Ukrtelecom launch reciprocal fibre access
Kyivstar and Ukrtelecom will sell fibre over each other's networks, separating retail service from physical network ownership in an initial three-region rollout.
Global Cloud Services Trends
Internet infrastructure needs a bottleneck map
More fibre does not guarantee resilience when cable landings, backhaul, power and interconnection still share one failure domain.
Global Institutional Trends
Internet access needs a quality floor, not a coverage label
A household can sit inside a coverage map and still lack usable connectivity. The operational test is whether the service remains affordable, stable and supportable when people actually need it.
North America National Telecom Trends
Grain owns T-Mobile’s 800 MHz map; the access model comes next
The nationwide low-band portfolio has completed its transfer from T-Mobile US to Grain Management for $2.9 billion in cash plus Grain’s 600 MHz licences. Ownership is now settled. Whether the spectrum becomes a shared infrastructure layer, a set of private networks or something…