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Search ArticlesCan Europe Compete on Sovereignty Without Trillion-Dollar Pockets?
This is the second of two related articles. Readers can access the first article here. There was a time when open source and decentralisation looked like the answer to the concentration of power and money in the hands of Big Tech, whether in networks or the wider web; a coexistence model where free, community-built software sat alongside commercial products, good enough to keep the market honest.
AI and Robotics: The Safest of All Possible Worlds?
Something has raised the hair on the back of my neck a touch recently; military hunter/killer (HK) drones that look suspiciously like the ones in the Terminator. Not only that, but those of us who are familiar with AI know that it’s more alchemy than science, throwing up “unexpected” outcomes on a regular basis.
Operators & the Struggle for a Bigger Bite of Layer Cake
Here are three very different recent posts from around the web. Superficially they’re almost unrelated, but put them together and it makes for some interesting questions for the telecoms environment, and for the policymakers and regulators setting out the playing field.
Sovereignty: Rewriting the Deal Between Telecoms and the State
For years, the deal between European telecoms operators and the governments that license them has stayed roughly the same shape: mobile operators pay for spectrum, accept universal-service obligations, and submit to price regulation; governments treat connectivity as a public good but leave the business of running it to private companies. That deal was built for a world where the operator owned the technology stack it was regulated on.
What Are You Good For? Trust, Credibility and Robin Hood
Dan Pratl, CEO and founder of Quadron, traces the company to what he calls “a very serendipitous path, starting at the Securities and Exchange Commission in the Great Recession, then into open source, into crowdfunding, and then into crypto.” That path, he told a panel of analysts and journalists at TelcoForge’s recent Forging Ahead online event, led him to one conclusion: “We need a new systems architecture for the next generation of verification and identity.” This is not trying to remake...
A Vision of Opportunity: Vodafone IoT, AI, and More
Phil Skipper, Head of Business Development at Vodafone IoT, was first involved in IoT back in the heady days when it received the kinds of forecasts that AI does today. Perhaps it’s a sign of things to come that he avoids talking too much about the technology. That’s not what his customers are buying except incidentally. “Customers buy something which is very different, which is what we call the confidence to connect,” he told TelcoForge.
Final Frontier Offers Old Problems With New Context
On 24 June 2026, GSMA published its Satellite Regulatory Playbook, produced in collaboration with Access Partnership. Superficially it’s a technical document: eight regulatory pillars from local establishment rules to enforcement, all aimed at helping national regulators update frameworks built for a wholesale, backend satellite industry to cope with a retail one.
Conducting Business? Where Telecom’s Next Trillion Dollars Is Hiding
“If you think you’re in the connectivity business in 2026 as an operator, you’ve lost 50% of your addressable market already.” Prianca Ravichander, CMO of Tecnotree, was asked earlier this year where the next trillion dollars in telecoms was going to come from. Now she thinks she has an answer. Where does the next wave of telecom value come from? It plainly can’t come from making more consumers, and competing head-on with AI companies at their own game is difficult at best.
6G: Researchers Develop First Foundry-Ready Smart Surface
Researchers at Seoul National University have developed what they claim to be the world’s first Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) manufactured using a standard semiconductor foundry process. This should help advance the upcoming 6G technology and infrastructure. In a paper published in Nature Communications, the authors introduce STARE, or Semiconductor Transmit Array with Reconfigurable Elements.
Regulatory Overload Is Threatening to Derail the Future of British Broadband
The UK is within a hair’s breadth of achieving nationwide gigabit-capable broadband. The ongoing rollout has been the most significant and successful infrastructure project in recent memory, and a huge part of that is down to the UK’s broadband providers: over the years, they have invested over £50 billion to upgrade the nation’s communications infrastructure. Thanks to their efforts, nearly 90% of the country can now benefit from infrastructure that is future-proofed for decades to come.