Europe and Middle East Trends
Europe and Middle East Trends
Europe and Middle East market trend intelligence tracks cloud service, regional ISP, national telecom, data centre, and institutional infrastructure signals across European and Middle Eastern internet infrastructure markets. BTW.
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Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Eutelsat expands 5G NTN work beyond OneWeb
Eutelsat is testing 5G NTN on OneWeb while preparing replenishment satellites, IRIS² and a proposed new constellation for standards-based integration.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom
Hisdesat selects Airbus and Thales to build SpainSat NG III
Hisdesat has awarded Airbus and Thales Alenia Space the SpainSat NG III replacement programme, with launch planned for the third quarter of 2030.
Europe and Middle East Regional ISP Trends
INTERBIT and the Boundaries of Network Identity
A company name can appear to offer a simple answer to a network question. In practice, the identity behind an Internet service is distributed across legal records, number-resource registries, declared routing policy, observed routes, service descriptions and the equipment that…
Europe and Middle East Cloud Services
AS59408 zero visibility needs repeat observation
RIPE records RULE-AS as active while a frozen route view showed zero qualifying visibility. That does not by itself prove an outage.
Europe and Middle East Regional ISP
Zero route visibility needs context, not a verdict
Zero route visibility needs context, not a verdict 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…
Europe and Middle East Institutional
AS57611 does not turn ROMGAZ into a telecom operator
AS57611 does not turn ROMGAZ into a telecom operator 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…
Europe and Middle East Regional ISP Trends
Hosting continuity lives beyond the status page
Hostixo can publish service health, but customers also depend on billing, account access, backups, domains and licences that fail on different clocks.
Europe and Middle East Cloud Services Trends
The EU AI Act needs a system inventory
Risk rules cannot govern AI that an organisation has not found. Compliance begins with deployed systems, purposes, providers and affected people.
Europe and Middle East Cloud Services Trends
Femtech data needs a deletion path
Cycle and fertility tools can turn intimate records into useful insight. The same records can expose health, sexuality and life plans far beyond the app.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom
Orange Polska extends EDF wind-power deal to 2035
Orange Polska’s renewed EDF wind-power deal covers about 200GWh a year, equal to roughly 40% of the operator’s electricity demand.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom
TalkTalk nears exclusive talks to sell PXC to Octopus
A PXC sale would put TalkTalk’s wholesale network and consumer business under separate ownership, extending an operational split that began in 2024.
Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
JLL puts FLAP-D live data-centre capacity at 3.8GW
FLAP-D remains tight as large AI training projects look to power-rich secondary markets for room to grow.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Hispasat to lead €1.6bn-plus IRIS² ground segment
Hispasat will coordinate antennas, control systems and terrestrial links for IRIS², with first launches planned for 2029.
Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
Citylink plans Wrocław data-centre heat recovery
The 24MW facility is still under construction, giving Citylink and Kogeneracja time to design heat recovery before the data centre is complete.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Telefónica prepares 2,756 sites for Spain’s solar eclipse
Telefónica plans network changes across 31 provinces ahead of the 12 August eclipse, using more than 400 observation points to guide preparation.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom
Iraq regulator begins Korek Telecom shutdown
Iraq’s telecom regulator is moving to shut Korek’s network after a settlement collapsed, while customers await instructions on what happens to their SIMs.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
UK MVNO connections forecast to rise 51%
FDM CCS Insight expects MVNOs to exceed 30% of UK mobile connections excluding M2M by 2031 as app-based entrants expand.
Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
Harworth in talks to sell second data-centre site
Harworth is negotiating a second data-centre land sale at a site with planning and power, while its wider 800MW connection portfolio remains at different stages.
Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
MEEZA secures QAR1.6bn for 44MW expansion
MEEZA's new Dukhan Bank facility will fund three M-VAULT projects expected to add about 44MW of data-centre capacity in Qatar.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
IRIS² now has a 348-satellite implementation baseline, not an operational constellation
Europe’s secure-connectivity programme has crossed an important contractual boundary. The Commission and SpaceRISE have fixed a larger, 348-satellite architecture and a path from detailed design to launches and ground infrastructure. That reduces one kind of uncertainty while…