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.
Latest Coverage
Latest from Europe and Middle East Trends
1,413 articles
Europe and Middle East Cloud Services Trends
Microsoft faces $2.8bn UK class action over cloud licensing
UK court allows class action alleging Microsoft cloud licensing inflates rival platform costs, raising concerns over cloud market competition.
Europe and Middle East Cloud Services Trends
BICS deepens Google Cloud partnership for enterprise voice
BICS says its expanded Google Cloud collaboration gives enterprises PSTN connectivity in more than 40 countries, cloud numbering and SIP Link support for Google Voice migrations.
Europe and Middle East Regional ISP Trends
UK AI boom risks fibre bottleneck, warns Neos Networks CEO
Neos Networks chief Lee Myall says Britain’s AI ambitions depend more on fibre connectivity than on compute capacity.
Europe and Middle East Cloud Services Trends
UK telecom servers expose sensitive configuration data
Telecom operators in UK and Europe face configuration and certificate mismanagement risks across key network systems.
Europe and Middle East Cloud Services Trends
Amazon acquires Globalstar for $11.6bn to challenge Starlink
Amazon agreed to acquire Globalstar in a satellite-connectivity deal that would add spectrum, satellite operations and direct-to-device capacity to Amazon Leo.
Europe and Middle East Institutional Trends
Basic-Fit says data breach exposes details of a million members
Basic-Fit disclosed unauthorized access to a member-visit system, exposing personal and banking details for about one million members across Europe.
Europe and Middle East Regional ISP Trends
Altibox backs 512Tbps Verena cable linking UK and Denmark
Altibox joins Verena subsea cable delivering 512Tbps capacity between UK and Denmark, targeting North Sea congestion by 2028.
Europe and Middle East Regional ISP Trends
Bidders line up for €8bn XPFibre deal
Investors target XPFibre in an €8bn fibre deal as demand for stable telecom infrastructure assets grows across Europe.
Europe and Middle East Cloud Services Trends
Tesla wins EU approval for supervised self-driving in Netherlands
Dutch regulators clear Tesla’s FSD system, enabling limited deployment while requiring driver supervision across European roads.
Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
OpenAI pauses UK data centre plans as energy costs bite
OpenAI pauses Stargate UK data centre project as high energy costs and regulation challenge AI infrastructure investment.
Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
TikTok to build €1bn second data centre in Finland
TikTok expands European infrastructure with a second Finnish data centre, scaling capacity and strengthening compliance efforts.
Europe and Middle East Cloud Services Trends
Greece to ban under-15s from social media from 2027
Greece plans a 2027 ban on under-15 social media use, citing anxiety and sleep risks, with potential EU regulatory impact.
Europe and Middle East Regional ISP Trends
UK altnets face pressure as fibre market matures
Britain’s fibre market matures as overbuild, flat broadband growth and funding constraints push alternative operators towards consolidation.
Europe and Middle East Institutional Trends
Ubisoft lawsuit puts game ownership rights under scrutiny
A French consumer group sued Ubisoft over shutting down The Crew, raising concerns about digital ownership in online-only games.
Europe and Middle East Regional ISP Trends
CityFibre launches 8.5Gbps to lift UK broadband standard
CityFibre launches 8.5Gbps broadband, raising UK speed standards and intensifying ISP competition in multi-gig fibre networks.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Nokia wins Virgin Media O2 5G RAN deal for UK network
Nokia signs 5G RAN deal with Virgin Media O2 to accelerate UK network transformation and strengthen market position.
Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
Mistral secures $830m debt to build Paris data centre
Mistral AI raises $830m to build a Paris data centre, boosting Europe’s AI infrastructure ambitions.
Europe and Middle East Cloud Services Trends
Italy fines Intesa Sanpaolo EUR31.8m over insider data breach
Italy's EUR31.8 million sanction against Intesa Sanpaolo is an insider-access control event, not just a privacy headline. The Garante found that a bank employee accessed banking information for thousands of customers over more than two years, including high-risk clients, while…
Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
Europe data centre growth hit by power constraints
Europe’s data centre growth is accelerating, but power shortages and regulation are limiting expansion, says EUDCA.
Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
Europe must rethink data centre strategy amid AI surge
Europe faces data centre challenges as AI demand rises, warns EUDCA chairman Michael Winterson.