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 …

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 …

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 …

I used to work at Huawei – about 15 years ago, when the firm was on an LTE tear-up in Europe. I was not particularly senior, and I was western; …

Europe’s sovereignty push looks urgent, almost desperate, and also coordinated and forceful. Deutsche Telekom has won a joint-tender with SAP from the Federal Ministry for Digitalization and State Modernization (BMDS) …

This is a short version of the only story in town today, covered at some length here… RCR was going to write up BT’s results today, but then this dropped: …

I really enjoyed this conversation with George Glass, chief tech officer at TM Forum, which is spread across two articles, yesterday and today. I never much liked OSS/BSS as a …

Oh, look – here’s another US telco collaboration, across the RCR news desk. It is the second in a matter of days, and it looks on the face of it …

A tale of two industries, then – right here, at the top of this newsletter stack. These two reports, both by Juan Pedro, capture opposite ends of the same AI …

So, three things ahead of the the weekend – including two items from yesterday, about Cisco’s record results, discussed here with its axe-wielding, and the telco ‘dead-zone’ proposition in the …