The AI race is not only about who builds the biggest model or spends the most money. If it were, Europe would already be out of contention.
James Blackman
James Blackman
James Blackman has been writing about the technology and telecoms sectors for over a decade. He has edited and contributed to a number of European news outlets and trade titles. He has also worked at telecoms company Huawei, leading media activity for its devices business in Western Europe. He is based in London.
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Was there ever a better time for the beleaguered European telecoms sector to pitch a deal to the authorities about market consolidation? Was there ever a better time for the …
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So, three things today: the most audacious IPO fundraiser in history (as we should have guessed), total proof that fiber interconnect and backhaul is the richest sport in telecoms (as …
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Here’s a look at what France-based Orange (Business) is making of this telco sovereignty narrative, discussed at length in these pages recently – which turns out to be everything.
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Some thoughts on the new LoRaWAN roadmap to make LoRaWAN universal, interoperable, effortless – and all the things to support ‘massive IoT’ at global scale.
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Important news in the subsea cable sector, as Australian operator Telstra has a new land-and-sea network-swap deal with US hyperscaler Google to pump AI workloads in and out of Australia, …
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The announcement that Softbank is invest up to €75 billion to build AI data center capacity in France is being framed in Paris as a landmark moment for Europe’s AI …
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A day in the life of telecoms and tech – early summer, 2026. Which means sovereignty everywhere, of course, most notably as KPN follows the new Euro-stack model with Schwarz …
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Something and nothing, but worth memorializing – especially after all the policy talk about sovereignty. Wi-Fi is increasingly proving itself not just as a convenience layer, but as core infrastructure …
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There’s a temptation to read all these stories of sovereignty and repatriation as a kind of grand post-globalist industrial shakeout, a response to dicey geopolitics geared around a new capitalist …