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Europe and Middle East Cloud Services
Yandex Cloud and the margin politics of Russian compute
Yandex Cloud is one of the few companies in this batch whose problem is not proving that demand exists. The public record already shows a growing, profitable Russian cloud business with tens of thousands of customers, a broad product suite, GPU services, local compliance…
Asia-Pacific Regional ISP
Reactor Money Built the Network; a Shrinking Town Keeps Paying for It
Omaezaki Cable Television, the municipal cable operator known locally as Mao-mao, never paid for its own network. Nuclear-siting grants strung the coax in 2001, and the city treasury bought the fibre that replaced it in 2019. What is left is a strange and instructive creature…
Europe and Middle East Regional ISP
The €150 Autonomous System: Pricing Europe's Learn-by-Routing Economy
The €150 Autonomous System: Pricing Europe's Learn-by-Routing Economy 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.…
Europe and Middle East Regional ISP
The Margin Above Rented Glass: TSNET in Italy's Wholesale Fibre State
Italy has rebuilt its fixed-line network around companies that are forbidden, by charter or by choice, from selling to the households and firms the network exists to serve. Someone still has to face the customer. In a village on the Modena plain, a thirty-year-old firm of telecom…
Europe and Middle East Regional ISP
Solutions4XS and the Fifteen-Cent Margin of Dutch Independent Access
When KPN retired XS4ALL, the Netherlands' most trusted independent internet brand, a diaspora of engineers and refusenik customers went looking for somewhere else to stand. One of the companies that appeared in that aftermarket was a two-man firm in a polder hamlet south of…
North America Cloud Services
What a Dead Buzzword Is Doing on a Five-Terabit Network
A Toronto company called Meteverse carries a name that timestamps itself to the season the metaverse died — and sells nothing to anyone who would care. Follow its paper trail through the address registries and it turns into something else entirely: the re-flagged international…
Europe and Middle East Regional ISP
Telesistema and the option value inside a Jujuy cable-fibre identity
Telesistema and the option value inside a Jujuy cable-fibre identity 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.…
Africa Regional ISP
EgyNet and the Economics of Absorbed Bandwidth
EgyNet is no longer best read as a standalone Egyptian access brand. Its more useful meaning is historical and economic: it was one of the private data-network assets that helped a new mobile carrier enter fixed connectivity, and its remaining public traces show how Egypt's ISP…
Europe and Middle East Cloud Services
Webglobe, s.r.o. and the Cash-Flow Test for Central European Hosting Roll-Ups
Webglobe, s.r.o. is economically interesting because it turns a fragmented Czech hosting market into a practical test of consolidation: whether domains, web hosting, mailboxes, VPS support and local helpdesk habits can keep producing sticky cash flow after small brands are folded…
Asia-Pacific Regional ISP
Suiji Networks and the credibility spread in China's enterprise internet market
Shanghai Suiji Networks Tech. Co. Ltd. is not hard to find, but it is hard to price. The company has public Chinese telecom-licence signals, an ICP-visible sales site, a government-procurement trace, and a real APNIC routing identity. It also has an AS that currently shows only…
North America Regional ISP
SUPERNet II and the economics of trust on a rural school fiber route
SUPERNet II and the economics of trust on a rural school fiber route 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.…
Latin America and Caribbean Regional ISP
CecelNet and the credibility premium in Brazil's crowded fibre market
M. C. R. Campos Informatica e Telecomunicacoes, trading publicly as CecelNet, is a small Campos dos Goytacazes provider in a market where fibre speed has become cheap language. Its harder asset is proof: an active SCM authorization, locally visible pole-use records, live address…
Latin America and Caribbean Cloud Services
SkyOnline and the Argentine Trust Hedge Behind Local Cloud
SkyOnline de Argentina S.A. is best understood as a Buenos Aires infrastructure hedge: a local data-centre and cloud operator that tries to sell financial-district proximity, power resilience, carrier choice and private-cloud control to Argentine companies that face dollar costs…
Europe and Middle East Regional ISP
Delta Telesystems and the proof discount on a Tyumen access network
Delta Telesystems and the proof discount on a Tyumen access network 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…
Latin America and Caribbean Regional ISP
TOP NET SERVIÇOS and the pole-route bargain behind ViaNet's local fibre
TOP NET SERVIÇOS and the pole-route bargain behind ViaNet's local fibre 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.…
Europe and Middle East Regional ISP
Overoptic Systems and the collateral value of a quiet UK IP estate
Overoptic Systems Ltd is not easy to value as a conventional internet service provider. The strongest public evidence points instead to a UK legal company holding RIPE resources, old HQHost and iPipe service surfaces, address space routed by other networks, and a very thin…
Asia-Pacific Regional ISP
TVT Tsuyama's fibre upgrade is a household-retention business, not a speed race
TVT Tsuyama's fibre upgrade is a household-retention business, not a speed race 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…
Europe and Middle East Regional ISP
TV SAT 364 and the basement economics of a Polish apartment bundle
TV SAT 364 and the basement economics of a Polish apartment bundle 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…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom
Taiwan Fixed Network is the insurance layer under Taiwan Mobile's scale
Taiwan Fixed Network's value is not best understood as another fixed-line brand chasing households. It is the fixed infrastructure insurance layer inside Taiwan Mobile: the circuits, data centers, routing controls, cable footprints, enterprise service desks and backup paths that…
Africa Cloud Services
TenacIT Solutions and the service desk inside the 10G peering port
TenacIT Solutions is not economically interesting because it can outscale Amazon, Microsoft or Google in South Africa. It is interesting because it sits in the practical middle: a Gqeberha-based managed service provider, enterprise ISP and private-cloud operator using NAP Africa…