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Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
The CMA’s Fibre-Merger Remedy Menu Has One Item: Prohibition.
For nexfibre’s proposed Substantial acquisition, the CMA names prohibition and invites third parties to propose practicable alternatives by 27 October.
Africa National Telecom Trends
The Satellite Is in Orbit. Kenya’s Licence Stack Stays on the Ground.
The Communications Authority of Kenya has put a satellite-frequency rulebook out for comment. Its draft gives gateways, terminals and moving dishes different licence paths—and lets the spectrum clock follow a different service licence for each.
North America National Telecom Trends
The FCC Took the Provider’s Reply Window Off One Map Layer
The July 2026 rule changes who gets to speak while the FCC updates the broadband location database. Providers can still challenge accepted results before the next map version; the reply has moved later in the cycle.
North America National Telecom Trends
BEAD’s Dashboard Has 55 Signatures. The Money Still Has a Paper Gate
NTIA’s October dashboard celebrates signed state awards. A separate, subgrantee-level certification controls when that subgrantee’s BEAD funds become available. One progress bar ends; another document takes the keys.
Africa National Telecom Trends
Kenya’s 2.7bn cyber events need a counting rule
The National KE-CIRT/CC recorded 2,696,335,021 detected events in July–September 2026. Its report gives the total and six tidy subtotals, but no data dictionary linking a detection to an advisory, an incident or a defended service.
Europe and Middle East Institutional Trends
Nothing Changed. The £50 Companies House Check Still Wants an Answer.
Britain’s small-business taskforce found plenty to simplify. The government paused a future duplicate filing, then kept the annual register check even for companies that have gone quiet.
Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
One customer books Scotland’s £300m AI-centre capacity for 15 years
A £202m National Wealth Fund guarantee sits inside DataVita’s roughly £300m debt facility. The full capacity of the two financed data centres is contracted to CoreWeave under a 15-year lease.
North America National Telecom Trends
The FCC Found 215 MHz for Rockets. Its Bands Add Up to 210.
Three allocations, two coordination desks and launch windows that move with the weather: the FCC’s space-launch spectrum question is an operating schedule disguised as a MHz debate.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
The Cable Is Fine. Britain Wants a Crime for the Plot.
A UK White Paper would reach hostile preparation around subsea cables before an outage. Its sharpest unfinished line separates an attack survey from an ordinary one.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Hampshire’s Fibre Contract Shrunk. Which Doors Changed Hands?
BDUK cut the subsidised Hampshire build after commercial plans expanded. Its latest contract table counts more recorded construction; the address handover remains the question.
Global Datacenter Trends
SLB’s data-centre business is booming. Its profit has no separate column.
Data Center Solutions brought in $230 million in the third quarter, 76% more than a year earlier. SLB has still tucked the business inside “All Other,” where its profit shares a room with two unrelated operations.
Europe and Middle East Institutional Trends
Ofgem Wants a Late Fee for the Grid. Some Transmission Contracts Say £0.
A missed connection date can leave a project paying for an idle site while the network’s contractual meter runs at £0 a day. Ofgem wants a sharper bill—and a rule that does not reward safer, later dates.
Europe and Middle East Institutional Trends
Britain’s AI Biosecurity Lab Has £100m. The Referees Are Still Offstage
The government has named the money, the models and the agencies around its new lab. The people meant to advise its science have yet to be named.
Europe and Middle East Institutional Trends
Britain Gives Its AI Scorekeeper £23m. Which Results Will We See?
The AI Economics Institute has a new three-year funding promise. Its research agenda follows government policy questions, while its own prospectus promises the public only selected analysis.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Forest of Dean Found a New Fibre Builder. Which Doors Came With It?
The British government has moved the second half of a cancelled rural broadband job to Openreach. Its public contract counter got bigger; the address list stayed out of sight.
Latin America and Caribbean National Telecom Trends
Brazil’s New Drone Band Has One Awkward Guest Question: Can It Talk to Air Traffic Control?
Anatel proposes ten 200 kHz channels between 468 and 470 MHz for remotely piloted aircraft. Brazil’s existing rulebook gives that category a surprisingly specific guest list.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Orange and XpFibre Got 722 Fibre Deadlines. France Wants Receipts Too
The regulator has put a January date on unfinished fibre areas and a March date on the evidence. A map coloured green will not file the report.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
BEREC Office Signed a Green Charter. Its Meeting Flights Filed a Different Report
A fresh signature promises cleaner operations by 2030. The agency’s own travel figures point straight to the meeting calendar.
North America National Telecom Trends
Canada’s Do Not Call List Has a Second Command: Don’t Hand It Around
Canada gave marketers a list to help keep phones quiet. Two October enforcement notices put C$565,000 on the cost of treating access as permission to circulate it.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Ofcom Wants Nine Good Mobile Moments in Ten. Britain Delivers Seven or Eight.
Ofcom has put a 90% everyday-use benchmark on the table. Its first national scores sit at 70% to 80%, and a phone with no signal never enters the speed-test score.
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