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Two satellite-control buildings and multiple ground dishes link to a communications satellite, illustrating Franco-German coordination over spectrum and wholesale access.

Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends

France and Germany put wholesale access at the heart of the 2GHz spectrum bargain

Paris and Berlin want scarce satellite spectrum to serve two purposes at once: reserve room for Europe’s IRIS² connectivity programme while preventing the selection process from becoming a closed route to market.

Jul 18, 2026
A secure computing hall, cooling plant and electrical substation on a research campus at dusk, illustrating the UK's AIRR host-site competition.

Europe and Middle East Cloud Services Trends

UK opens host-site EOI for £750m sovereign AI supercomputer

The 17 July request asks eligible UK research hosts to prove that sovereign compute can be placed, powered and governed as a national service; it is a site-selection step, not a new funding award or tender.

Jul 18, 2026
An unbranded data-centre campus beside a constrained electrical substation and an unfinished grid-connection bay.

Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends

EU grid plan would make data-centre queues an economic contest

Brussels is proposing to replace simple place-in-line logic with a test of who imposes grid costs, who can ease congestion and whose project delivers the strongest public benefit.

Jul 18, 2026
Empty server racks and a power meter inside a data-centre hall, illustrating HeungKong's utilisation and fixed-cost risk in Ningxia.

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends

HeungKong's 27MW data-centre bet starts with an empty order book

A five-year RMB795.6 million capacity plan in Ningxia puts recurring costs ahead of customer demand at a company already contending with falling revenue and continuing losses.

Jul 18, 2026
AI-generated editorial portrait of Justin Hotard in a restrained exascale-to-enterprise-AI infrastructure setting.

North America Datacenter Trends

Justin Hotard and HPE's Exascale-to-AI Translation Problem

Frontier became a record-setting supercomputer before it became accepted infrastructure, and accepted infrastructure before it could serve as evidence for a repeatable enterprise AI business. Justin Hotard's HPE years expose the difficult managerial distance between those…

Jul 18, 2026
AI-generated editorial portrait of Cristiano Amon in a restrained semiconductor strategy workspace.

Global Institutional Trends

Cristiano Amon and Qualcomm's 5G Optionality Under Pressure

On 12 March 2018, a United States presidential order stopped Broadcom's proposed takeover of Qualcomm, turning a dispute over corporate control into a public test of research cadence, licensing economics and national security. The order was an act of government following CFIUS…

Jul 18, 2026
AI-generated anonymous no-face editorial scene of DNSSEC root-key ceremony observation work.

Global Institutional Trends

Gaurab Raj Upadhaya and the Bounded Custody of the Root Key

A small metal key helps explain a large institutional achievement: how the root of DNSSEC can depend on a volunteer's presence while denying that volunteer the power to act alone.

Jul 18, 2026
AI-generated anonymous no-face editorial scene of aerospace mission-planning work.

Global Institutional Trends

Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin's long test of patient capital

NASA’s 2021 choice of SpaceX for its first Human Landing System award, followed by the GAO’s denial of the Blue Origin Federation protest and Blue Origin’s loss in the Court of Federal Claims, made exclusion unmistakable; NASA’s 2023 decision to add Blue Origin as the second…

Jul 18, 2026
AI-generated anonymous no-face editorial scene of telecom network-modernisation planning work.

Europe and Middle East Institutional Trends

Christel Heydemann and the operating compact behind France's copper shutdown

Announcing a fibre build is a promise to create a network; switching off copper is a commitment to move every remaining dependency away from an old one. France's closure therefore turns on more than cable and coverage: it reaches homes, business systems, alarms, emergency…

Jul 18, 2026
AI-generated anonymous no-face editorial scene of public-safety infrastructure planning work.

North America Institutional Trends

David Ulevitch and the Public-Safety Capital Test

David Ulevitch’s post-Cisco record poses a harder question than whether a software investor can spot promising technology: what must capital become when the buyer is a public institution, the operating environment is an emergency, and legitimacy is part of the product rather than…

Jul 18, 2026
Photorealistic editorial portrait of Abdiel Marin in a restrained ophthalmology-software workspace.

North America Institutional Trends

Abdiel Marin and the Architecture of an Ophthalmology Software Company

From practice shadowing and in-house DICOM libraries to fog architecture, patient engagement, a majority investment, a new name and a planned succession, Marin's record is clearest as a sequence of observable choices made around the constraints of eye-care work.

Jul 17, 2026
Photorealistic editorial portrait of Yechiam Yemini in a restrained network-control research setting.

North America Institutional Trends

Yechiam Yemini and the Long Argument for Self-Managing Infrastructure

Long before AIOps became a sales category, Yechiam Yemini's Columbia research circle was asking a harder question: could complex infrastructure diagnose faults and allocate resources with less human intervention? The path from that question to SMARTS and VMTurbo/Turbonomic shows…

Jul 17, 2026
Virgin Media O2, Openreach and Ofcom branding beside fibre-optic cables and an Openreach service van

Europe and Middle East National Telecom

VMO2 Challenges Openreach Fibre Discounts

Virgin Media O2 says Openreach’s latest wholesale offers may deter broadband providers from using competing fibre networks.

Jul 17, 2026
Photorealistic editorial portrait of Marc Murtra in a restrained institutional governance setting.

Europe and Middle East Institutional Trends

Marc Murtra and the State-Shareholder Test Inside Indra

Marc Murtra's Indra chairmanship is a study in authority that was visible but never absolute. A state shareholder could alter the balance around the board; industrial investors could acquire influence; directors and shareholders could approve a defence-led reconfiguration; and…

Jul 17, 2026
Three FWA leads individual UK fibre altnets

Europe and Middle East National Telecom

Three FWA Leads Fibre Altnets in UK Broadband Share

Three has gained a larger share of UK broadband connections than any single fibre alternative network through its fixed wireless service.

Jul 17, 2026
Photorealistic editorial portrait of David M Meyer in an Internet routing and open control-plane setting.

Global Institutional Trends

David Meyer and the Uneasy Work of Making Network Control Public

David M Meyer's public record crosses four ways of coordinating a network that no entity fully controls: exposing interdomain routing through RouteViews, expressing routing policy through RPSL, serving standards and operator communities, and helping to lead OpenDaylight's early…

Jul 17, 2026
New York skyline beside data-centre server racks and a sign marking a pause in large data-centre permits

North America Datacenter

New York pauses large data centre permits

New York halts incomplete state permit applications for large data centres while developing new rules on energy, water use, and grid costs.

Jul 17, 2026
Photorealistic editorial portrait of Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo in a routing-security operations setting.

Latin America and Caribbean Institutional Trends

Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo and the Boundary Work of Routing Security

Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo's public record does not describe a lone architect making the internet safe. It shows a more instructive kind of authority: a regional registry strategist working where cryptographic standards, trust-anchor operations, operator education and cross-border…

Jul 17, 2026
Aerial illustration of a large data centre campus in Sydney

Asia-Pacific Datacenter

Macquarie acquires site in Sydney for 200MW data centre campus

Macquarie developed its campus plan in Sydney, but the size and timing of each construction stage have not yet been determined.

Jul 17, 2026
Technician installing an optical fibre connector in a data centre network cabinet

North America Datacenter

Microsoft deploys 3M optical connectors in Azure data centers

Microsoft adopts an optical connector designed to simplify fiber installation and maintenance in dense data center environments.

Jul 17, 2026

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