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Europe and Middle East Datacenter
InterLAN-IX: one exchange, two sets of numbers
Romania's domestic peering fabric is operated by InterLAN Internet Exchange SRL, a Bucharest-headquartered company whose own published figures and the Romanian Network Operators Group's description of the same platform do not reconcile on members, locations or traffic. For an…
Africa National Telecom Trends
Egypt’s corporate SIM rules need a live user roster
Egypt’s regulator has ordered a broad check of existing lines, but an organization’s SIM roster changes whenever staff and contractors do. Durable control depends on connecting the contract holder, authorized delegate and current user throughout a line’s life.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom
EI Towers: Reported Control, Unverified Leverage and a Tie-Up That Stopped at the Deadline
Italy's principal independent broadcast tower operator is simple to describe and hard to document: the ownership split, the debt and the service contract that decide its economics all sit behind a delisting completed in 2018, and the record available for this briefing reaches…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom
Telstra’s AI anchor deal raises an Aura returns test
A contract described as “multiples of the Google deal” signals strong demand for Telstra’s Aura fibre. The comparison still has no public unit, while the Google arrangement exchanges terrestrial capacity for subsea access and Telstra’s published return target groups Aura with…
Africa Datacenter Trends
ANGONIX: Angola's internet exchange and the Atlantic cable layer
Angola's national internet exchange has operated since 16 March 2015 as a neutral platform run by Angola Cables and hosted at the AngoNAP Luanda data centre. Its operator's submarine cable layer is moving toward services of up to 800 Gb/s, while the exchange's own interconnection…
Europe and Middle East Regional ISP
Tideo ApS: a live registry object with no announced address space
A RIPE Database organisation entity is still present and was modified in May 2026, while the only prefix observed against that holding was last announced roughly seven months earlier: administrative persistence is not evidence that a network is running.
North America National Telecom
Ripple’s sale gives fiber expansion two different scorecards
Eaton Fiber acquired Ripple Fiber as Verizon took most of Ripple’s existing customers and some network assets. The close expands a wholesale build platform, but its progress will only be legible if construction, customer migration and service continuity are measured separately.
Asia-Pacific Institutional Trends
Australia’s spectrum renewals hinge on the benchmark record
Australia’s communications regulator has opened a consultation on how it will refresh the evidence behind future spectrum renewal prices. The method is largely settled; the quality and timing of the next benchmark record are not.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom
du moves U6GHz from network plans to customer equipment
du says commercially available customer equipment is now connected to its live U6GHz service. The claim advances the UAE race from network deployment toward an observable retail product, while leaving coverage, price and customer uptake unanswered.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Europe’s backbone map is being drawn before the next funding rules
The Commission wants a map of Europe’s terrestrial and submarine networks, then a view of where money may be missing. The study can clarify those choices; it cannot make a network, a grant or a market failure appear by itself.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Pisces has a joint venture. Its access rules remain the real test
The 14 October announcement gives the Ireland–continental Europe cable a named delivery company and chief executive. It does not yet show who will receive capacity, on what terms, or when the route will carry traffic.
North America National Telecom Trends
Broadband grants face two tests: who is unserved, and who can stay online
A federal broadband award can miss its purpose twice: first when an inaccurate location record leaves a community out of the funding map, and later when a completed network cannot afford to keep serving it. A new GAO review finds friction in both checks, without alleging that a…
Latin America and Caribbean National Telecom Trends
A public consultation is a record of decisions, not a vote: Anatel’s new rule
When regulation can alter a network operator’s investment plan, consultation is useful only if a firm can later see what happened to the evidence it submitted. Anatel’s new procedure creates that trace from comment to reasoned disposition; it gives entities a route into the…
Global Institutional Trends
IGF’s open-infrastructure network reaches consultation after a delayed stocktake draft
The IGF’s open-infrastructure network expects to publish a second stocktake draft around mid-October, then invite public comment for roughly a month. A three-week consultant delay makes the handoff from research to community review the test to watch.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
Globe’s resilience plan depends on access outside the network
Globe says telecom recovery should move with power, fuel and transport after a disaster. The Philippines already has emergency communications duties and a national roadmap; the unresolved question is whether a new utility plan can make outside dependencies actionable.
North America National Telecom Trends
The FCC removes a filing clock, not the work of keeping 911 connected
From 15 October, incumbent local exchange carriers can stop filing certain network-change notices with the FCC. The agency will no longer publish those notices or run the associated provider objection process. Public disclosure and direct notice to 911 network entities remain…
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
TalkTalk’s service continuity now sits inside a CMA ring fence
The takeover stopped an immediate collapse, but it did not establish that service will remain dependable. The CMA’s separation order now makes continuity an operating obligation that can be monitored while the deal is reviewed.
Asia-Pacific Institutional
HyderabadIX: A non-profit exchange point that the public record identifies but cannot yet account for
A non-profit internet exchange point is registered to Hyderabad, India, and appears across public registry, routing and lookup sources. What those same sources will not tell you — and what every operator, investor and regulator in the city should notice — is whether it is still…
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Britain’s fibre merger turns on the bidder that lost
The CMA’s provisional case against nexfibre’s purchase of Substantial depends on a contested question: would CityFibre have bought the network instead, and become a wholesale rival?
Latin America and Caribbean National Telecom Trends
Brazil’s 6 GHz auction ties the last payment to operating proof
Anatel’s proposed regional infrastructure fund would pay for neutral hubs and smaller edge sites only where private provision falls short. Its strongest safeguard is the sequence: test the market, fund only the viability gap, then hold back money until the network has worked in…
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