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Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
More satellite sky for ships and planes. Ofcom's licence has a layover
A new UK uplink decision widens the bands available to moving terminals. The frequencies reach real licences in early 2027, with an airport coordination rule along for the ride.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
A Registered SMS Name Can Still Arrive Wearing “Unverified”
Australia’s sender register can vouch for the name. The route carrying the message still has to earn the same trust.
North America National Telecom Trends
Canada wants to know who keeps sending the fibre technician
The doorbell has acquired a tariff. A rival ISP can face a C$240.86 wholesale service charge when Bell Canada sends a technician, against C$10.46 for an order handled without a visit. The regulator wants to know who keeps ringing.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
PNG’s cable is ready. Its price list is under interrogation
An independent telecoms blueprint asks Papua New Guinea to cut the wholesale charge on the Coral Sea Cable and make the regulator inspect the books behind it.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
A PHP bug landed on Ofcom’s desk. Telecom operators own the fix
Two critical flaws have turned a web-server update into a question for communications providers and essential digital-infrastructure services across the UK.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Ofcom retired 19 telecom land powers. The cables did not all retire
Twelve companies handed back the right to work on land; seven had already been dissolved. A KCOM asset trail shows why the company name and the network are different things.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom
Tismi answered complaints. Ofcom still sent a £437,500 bill
The regulator found prompt replies to outside agencies alongside three missing controls over phone numbers that Tismi had passed to customers.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Ofcom opened the city to satellite gateways. Two gigahertz need a side door
Urban satellite gateways can now seek Q/V band licences across the UK’s densest areas. A contested downlink slice still has its own, site-specific route.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Ireland has six TV multiplexes in reserve. The footnote is 47,000 DTT-only homes without broadband.
ComReg’s post-2030 spectrum puzzle has a neat numerator and a messy household denominator: six multiplexes are reserved for terrestrial television, two are used, and tens of thousands of homes still depend on the aerial with no broadband line behind it.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Two Shipping Groups Asked for More Time. Ofcom Gave Old MOB AIS Beacons Through 2031
Legacy man-overboard AIS beacons can stay on licences through 2031, after two maritime groups challenged Ofcom’s original timetable. New authorisations still stop in January 2027.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
The City Pass Covers 8 GHz. One Satellite Downlink Still Needs an Invitation.
Ofcom has opened urban gateway applications across 68 high-density areas. Up to 8 GHz now has a standard route; one useful downlink band still asks each site to make its own case.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
A Spectrum Licence Goes First. The Transmitter Still Has Homework.
ACMA will license an area and frequency range before it coordinates the transmitter that might use them. The map can be approved while the antenna is still filling out forms.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Portugal counted 14.6 million affected telecom accesses. One blackout did most of the counting.
ANACOM’s 2025 ledger shows why incident totals need more than one denominator: the case count barely moved, impact hours fell, and one national blackout pushed affected subscriptions and accesses into a different league.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
PNG’s 5G: Two Bands, One Clock, No Freelance Timekeeping
NICTA says it is ready to issue 5G licences in 2.6 GHz and 3.5 GHz. In the 2.6 GHz band, the rulebook already contains one unusually practical instruction: every licensee must keep time with the others.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Britain’s Cable Plan Has Two Security Settings—and One Is Missing a Word
The UK wants to regulate fibre that can listen to the seabed, control who handles its data and order cable or repair firms to act in a national-security crisis. Its new White Paper sets out the machinery. It also gives the proposed direction power two different thresholds…
Global Institutional Trends
The UN asked for digital-finance success stories. Where is the receipt?
The new UNGIS task force has a few months to turn financing examples into recommendations for digital development. Each example needs a clear line from the gap it addresses to the mechanism, accountable owner and evidence of delivery.
Asia-Pacific Institutional Trends
Singapore Builds a National Cyber Picture. Operators Keep the Patching Wrench.
Singapore’s expanded National Cybersecurity Command Centre joins national threat intelligence to exposed-asset discovery and protective DNS. The hard part begins when a common warning reaches a live network.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Britain Gave Telecom Continuity a Seat at the Merger Table
A new UK order puts the continuity of phone and broadband supply on the public-interest side of merger review. Its sharpest instrument is an order-making power, available only through a defined statutory doorway.
Europe and Middle East Institutional
A Grid Queue Is Not a Free Parking Lot: Ofgem’s Data Centre Fee
Britain’s grid queue held 125 GW of contracted demand in June 2025, including about 73 GW of data-centre projects. Ofgem wants developers to put money behind those positions and prove that their projects can reach energisation. The hard question is whether the rules can spot a…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
Indonesia’s Unused-Data Ruling Needs a Test of Real Usability
Indonesia’s remaining-data ruling has made “active and usable” the test. The next question is whether a customer can choose and verify a remedy when paid data is about to expire.
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