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Latest Briefings
Concise reporting on the developments shaping internet governance and infrastructure. Browse each area for recent news, context and watchpoints.
Telstra launches 5G slice for Microsoft Teams
Telstra is prioritising Microsoft Teams traffic on a dedicated 5G slice for business sites that need more predictable video-call performance.
TAG Blue needs the next company’s view
A broadcaster may understand its own alarms and still struggle to explain what happened upstream. TAG’s proposed cloud service moves that boundary between companies.
F5 ties scanning to the decision to block
A vulnerability report has limited value until someone can act on it. F5 wants a larger role in that decision—and in the interval before the code is fixed.
Campbell’s 36% Dividend Cut Starts Behind a 4.3× Leverage Ratio
Campbell’s expects its lower dividend to retain about US$170 million of cash each year and intends to send that money toward debt. The action is real; the deleveraging is still prospective. Net leverage ended fiscal 2026 at 4.3 times even though balance-sheet net debt was almost unchanged, while next year’s interest expense is guided higher and the new savings programme must first absorb inflation, restructuring and investment demands.
Telkominfra offers managed laser links with Transcelestial
Telkominfra will install and maintain Transcelestial laser links for sites where fibre delays hold up mobile, enterprise and campus connectivity.
Proxmox puts support and procurement on different clocks
A night-time escalation route and a local invoice solve different problems. Proxmox’s expansion asks enterprise buyers to distinguish between them.
O2 brings Starlink satellite service to UK businesses
O2 is extending Starlink-backed satellite coverage to business customers when its terrestrial network is unavailable.
Eutelsat joins Greenland satellite connectivity project
Eutelsat will provide OneWeb capacity through Tusass to extend connectivity to remote Greenland communities and critical infrastructure.
Angola Cables links subsea network to local cloud services
Angola Cables is pairing its subsea network with local cloud and AI infrastructure, including two TelCables cloud nodes in Nigeria.
Mistral raises €3bn for AI research and compute
Mistral raised €3bn to expand research and compute, but customers still need to judge what capacity and service terms are available to their workloads.
Telkom evaluates binding bids for NeutraDC
Telkom is reviewing binding offers for NeutraDC as Cikarang reaches 96% occupancy and Batam prepares an initial 6MW opening.
Ilkari adds Croatia's DC North to European operations
Ilkari has integrated the 4MW DC North facility in Varaždin into its European operations while keeping the existing local team in place.
Haivision brings network-priority requests to the producer
Choosing the important camera feed and obtaining priority on a mobile network are different decisions. A European proof of concept is trying to connect them.
ENISA confirms manual CRA reporting at launch
ENISA's CRA platform launches without an API, so manufacturers must submit mandatory cyber reports through its interface from 11 September.
MPT tests data-centre systems before site deployment
Master Power Technologies is using its Midrand testing centre to validate power and cooling systems before they are installed in African data centres.
Pure DC starts final 70MW Brent Cross phase
Glencar has started the West Shell of Pure DC's 70MW B2 facility, with completion scheduled for the second quarter of 2029.
Lands’ End’s 9% E-commerce Growth Carries Prior-Quarter Shipments
Lands’ End shipped enough delayed orders in its second quarter to help turn a 10.2% e-commerce decline into 9.0% growth. That is evidence of fulfilment recovery, but it is not a clean demand reading. The same warehouse system was still constraining value-added school-uniform work, while an undisclosed tariff refund made the margin rebound an unreliable certificate of ordinary operations.
Telxius opens Cancún landing gateway
The new facility is already connected to Telxius's backbone and is due to host the Tikal submarine cable in 2027.
GSMA pushes full upper 6GHz band for mobile
GSMA says the mobile industry is ready for upper 6GHz deployment, but national spectrum rules will decide what operators can actually use.
Telecom Egypt signs 5Pbps Sharm–Taba cable deal
The planned 200km cable will extend Telecom Egypt's Red Sea network to Taba, adding another route for traffic crossing Egypt between the Red Sea and Mediterranean.
Broadpeak’s Brazil expansion puts a time window on bandwidth
Local delivery nodes can bring a live stream closer to viewers. Selling certainty at the busiest moment requires a more precise promise.
IRTF Chair Nominations Close Today. The Workload Has Two Speeds
The next IRTF Chair is being recruited for a role described with an unusually candid pair of numbers: about a quarter of normal working time, then full-time attention for roughly six weeks each year. Nominations close at 23:59 UTC on 8 September. The IAB should preserve that distinction after the vacancy notice disappears, because an average cannot show whether the office has enough capacity at the moments when its duties collide.
Surge targets 9,800 FWA sites for 2027
Surge plans to expand its FWA network to 9,800 sites in 2027 while guiding to a 50–60% long-term EBITDA margin.
Vocus pinpoints Australia-Singapore Cable break
Vocus has located the ASC break in Indonesian waters while internet traffic continues over alternative routes.
NETSCOUT makes a bid for the work before AI reasoning
A smaller model input can be valuable. The harder buying decision is what it costs to prepare that input—and who can inspect the choices behind it.
Silicom’s 5G win puts deployment timing in focus
Cellular integration helped secure a cloud-security customer. Turning that selection into a sizeable recurring hardware business is a different task.
Zepp’s Premium-Mix Evidence Arrives Before Its Earnings
Zepp can already show that buyers are choosing dearer watches and bands. It cannot yet show that those choices have crossed every commercial boundary between an activation, a channel order, recognized revenue and an operating profit. That distinction is the useful part of its latest quarter.
Solomon e3’s cloud savings have three different sources
A reported bill reduction of more than half followed resource cleanup, resizing and a change of compute supplier. The useful lesson is how those interventions fit together, not a single headline discount.
Lipman flags power and fibre constraints in US buildout
At Metro Connect Fall, Andrew Lipman linked AI demand to practical limits in grid access, fibre deployment, permitting and project delivery.
Thailand asks 49 data-centre projects to pause
Thai officials have asked developers of 49 data-centre projects under construction to pause voluntarily while new national rules are prepared.
Equinix Fabric One moves network choices behind the service
The announced service would let customers specify the connection they want while providers do more of the assembly. That changes what an enterprise must buy—and what it must still be able to inspect.
Digital Realty opens 6.4MW Nairobi data centre
NBO2 adds 6.4MW of capacity beside Digital Realty's existing Nairobi facility and an established Kenya Internet Exchange location.
GeoCables flags INDIGO-West latency during Indonesia fire
GeoCables reported higher latency on INDIGO-West during an Indonesian forest fire, but found no evidence of a confirmed subsea cable break.
W3C Combined Two Accessibility Calls. It Did Not Combine Their Mandates
Two calendars can become one without two institutions becoming the same institution. W3C’s Fixed Layout Accessibility Task Force has cancelled its separate call series and is moving its work into a joint accessibility meeting. That is a sensible reduction in coordination overhead. It also makes a small governance label newly important: every agenda item should say whether the room is incubating a Community Group idea or advancing work that requires Publishing Maintenance Working Group authority.
OVHcloud restores connectivity after Vint Hill rack fault
OVHcloud restored connectivity at its Vint Hill data centre after a network fault linked to one rack affected bare-metal and network services.
Pro-Dex’s 35% Q4 Margin Still Runs Through One Customer
Pro-Dex more than doubled quarterly gross profit while sales rose only 17%. The result looks like operating leverage, and part of it is. It also compares a full quarter of a next-generation surgical handpiece with a period in which the customer kept that product on hold for most of the quarter. Because the same unnamed customer generated 78% of annual sales and 81% of year-end receivables, the margin cannot be separated from who controls the product gate.
DigitalBridge flags data-centre and GPU lifespan mismatch
DigitalBridge's Jon Mauck says data centres can last 20 years while GPUs may last five to seven, complicating long-term AI infrastructure finance.
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.
Papua adds temporary broadband at Lake Sentani Festival
Papua and Telkom used three load-balanced IndiBiz links to support connectivity during the Lake Sentani Festival.
LG Uplus forms alliance for 100MW modular AI data centres
LG Uplus and four construction partners will develop modular designs for 100MW-class AI data centres and conversions of existing buildings.
Zscaler gives its smaller-business push a channel route
Its Carahsoft expansion pairs standard bundles with repeatable deployment work. Dedicated enterprise sellers show where that model stops.
XLSMART Surabaya 5G exceeds 1,200 base stations
XLSMART says more than 1,200 5G base stations support Surabaya, while its national footprint now covers over 50 cities and regencies.
Claron Fibreoptics targets 300,000km cable output
Claron Fibreoptics plans to double annual optical-fibre cable capacity to 300,000km over the next year as it targets BharatNet and FTTH demand.
Jio marks 10 years with 533.3 million subscribers
Jio marks a decade with 533.3 million subscribers and a network spanning 4G, 5G, fibre, and fixed wireless.
SPP keeps East grid under Resource Advisory
Southwest Power Pool kept its East Balancing Authority Area under a Resource Advisory through 6 September amid severe heat and potentially higher electricity demand.
NOAA reroutes GOES data after NWAVE outage
A 2-hour 13-minute NWAVE outage disrupted GOES-18 and GOES-19 data distribution before NOAA rerouted the feed through WCDAS.
F5 resolves Global Log Receiver degradation
F5 resolved a Global Log Receiver degradation affecting one customer, while application traffic and Distributed Cloud Console services remained operational.
ChargePoint’s 38% Gross Margin Includes a One-Time Tariff Refund
ChargePoint has finally put a record gross margin next to improving revenue and lower operating costs. Four points of that margin, however, came from refunds of tariffs paid in earlier periods. The refund is real economics, not an accounting trick; it is also a receipt that cannot be repeated simply by selling another charger. The durable quarter begins after it is removed.
Cloudflare restores R2 after regional 503 errors
Cloudflare restored R2 in Eastern North America after a roughly three-and-a-half-hour incident caused elevated 503 errors for customers in the region.
Azure Databricks reports two Central US compute incidents
Two Central US incidents disrupted Azure Databricks cluster starts, notebooks and jobs on 5 September, with both services later restored.