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
Norway charges Telenor over Myanmar data disclosures
Norwegian authorities charged Telenor in two Myanmar-related investigations, including alleged disclosures of historical customer traffic data to the military regime.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
ESA backs CableShield satellite failover trial
ESA is funding CableShield to test automatic satellite backup for subsea-cable outages, with selected priority traffic rerouted when fibre fails.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom
LINX LON2 traffic passes 1Tbps
LINX's LON2 fabric has passed 1Tbps peak traffic after a pricing initiative encouraged members to add a second London peering platform.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom
SES and Elveo plan European D2D satellite manufacturing
SES and Elveo are adding European satellite manufacturing and mobile-roaming work, but have not disclosed a production site, output target or timetable.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom
Openreach says AI prevents 3,000 fibre cancellations
Openreach says its AI tools are helping keep more than 3,000 full-fibre orders from being cancelled each month when installations run into delays or extra engineering work.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Spain starts blocking unregistered SMS sender names
Spain's new SMS sender checks require businesses to register branded sender names and authorise the providers that use them, making provider changes part of delivery continuity.
Europe and Middle East Datacenter
AWS says some Bahrain resources cannot be restored
AWS says some resources held only in Bahrain and one UAE Availability Zone remain inaccessible after conflict damage, exposing the limit of in-region redundancy.
Europe and Middle East Datacenter
Digital Realty enters Türkiye with data-centre JV
Digital Realty is entering Türkiye with Rönesans Infrastructure, starting with a more than 22MW Ankara campus whose first facility is scheduled for 2028.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom
SES launches final three O3b mPOWER satellites
SES has completed the O3b mPOWER launch programme, but the final three satellites must still be commissioned before their capacity can serve customers.
Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
Sarvenmaa data-centre consultation closes
Polarnode's Keminmaa project includes power connections extending into Tornio, putting infrastructure beyond the data-centre site inside the planning review.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
ESpanix adds DDoS filtering in Madrid and Barcelona
Nokia Deepfield Defender lets participating networks filter attack traffic inside ESpanix rather than always diverting it to an external scrubbing centre.
Europe and Middle East Institutional Trends
FLEX and Sentinel-3C prepare for Vega-C launch
The two Earth-observation missions will fly together, but routine use depends on commissioning and data that can be compared with existing records.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom
Wind Tre unions call overtime restrictions through 12 October
Restrictions on overtime, supplementary work and on-call availability run to 12 October, while planned night work is excluded from the action.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Media City Qatar, Es’hailSat launch service bundles
Licensed media companies can now buy bundled satellite, teleport, colocation and managed broadcast services under the partners' April agreement.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
stc orders dedicated Astranis satellite
The MicroGEO satellite is due to launch in 2026, giving stc control over payload configuration and coverage before planned enterprise service in 2027.
Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
Saudi data-centre capacity rises 57% since 2024
Savills says Saudi Arabia's live IT capacity has grown 57% since 2024, while government plans call for 3GW of data-centre capacity by 2030.
Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
Spain proposes hourly renewables rule for data centres
Spain's draft data-centre rules would require large facilities to match at least 80% of hourly electricity use with new renewable generation.
Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
UAE rethinks 5GW AI campus after Iran war
Reuters says the 5GW project may shift from one Abu Dhabi campus to multiple UAE sites, while Stargate UAE's first 200MW remains targeted for 2026.
Europe and Middle East Datacenter
Vertical Data agrees to buy 4.5MW Swedish data-centre site
The acquisition covers a site with 4.5MW today; the proposed expansion to 100MW remains subject to separate power and development approvals.
Europe and Middle East Cloud Services Trends
Thales adds a UK boundary for cloud-key recovery
The new Luna Cloud HSM offer keeps the stated key lifecycle, including backups, in the UK. That answers a location question without settling every question about restoring a usable service.