Jan, 2026 : Verizon Secures Approval for $20B Frontier Acquisition
📅 - Verizon's planned $20 billion all-cash acquisition of Frontier Communications has cleared all required regulatory approvals, positioning the deal to close on January 20, 2026. The transaction, one of the largest U.S. telecom infrastructure deals in recent years, will significantly expand Verizon's fiber footprint and reshape competition in broadband and converged wireless services across large parts of the country.
Once completed, Verizon will integrate Frontier's fiber network into its existing portfolio of wireless and fixed assets, extending Verizon's fiber reach to nearly 30 million passings across 31 states and Washington, D.C. The acquisition strengthens Verizon's position in [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
📅 - U.K. Enterprises Rethink Multicloud in the Age of AI - U.K. enterprises are entering a new phase of cloud transformation as multicloud strategies are reshaped by artificial intelligence, rising regulatory demands, and increased scrutiny of technology spending. According to a newly published study by Information Services Group (ISG), organizations across the country are increasingly adopting AI-native multicloud environments designed to balance innovation with governance, compliance, and financial control.
The 2025 ISG Provider Lens Multi Public Cloud Services report for the U.K. highlights a shift away from traditional cloud adoption models toward architectures purpose-built for generative AI workloads and jurisdictional accountability. [...]
📅 - IBM Unveils Sovereign Core to Power AI Under Local Control - As regulatory scrutiny intensifies and geopolitical tensions reshape global technology strategies, IBM has unveiled a new software platform designed to address one of the most pressing challenges facing enterprises and governments today: digital sovereignty in the age of artificial intelligence.
The company's newly announced IBM Sovereign Core aims to provide organizations with a way to build, deploy, and manage AI-ready environments while retaining full operational control within defined jurisdictions.
The announcement comes amid growing concern that existing cloud and AI platforms often blur the lines of accountability around who controls infrastructure, who can access sensitive data, [...]
📅 - AWS Launches European Sovereign Cloud Amid Data Control Push - As concerns continue to mount across Europe about the dominance of U.S.-based cloud providers and the potential exposure of European data to foreign legal jurisdictions, Amazon Web Services has formally launched what it describes as its most ambitious response yet to EU sovereignty demands.
The AWS European Sovereign Cloud, now generally available, represents a structurally separate cloud environment designed to operate entirely within the European Union, under European governance, and with technical and legal safeguards intended to satisfy some of the strictest regulatory requirements in the region.
First unveiled in 2023, the initiative has been closely watched by policymakers, [...]
📅 - Vertiv Expands MegaMod HDX for High-Density AI Data Centers - Vertiv has expanded its portfolio of high-density data center infrastructure with the introduction of new configurations of its MegaMod HDX modular power and liquid cooling solution, targeting operators facing rapidly escalating compute, power, and thermal demands.
The announcement would reflect growing pressure on data center operators in North America and EMEA to support artificial intelligence and high-performance computing workloads that exceed the limits of traditional air-cooled facilities.
The new MegaMod HDX configurations are designed to address rack densities ranging from 50 kilowatts to more than 100 kilowatts per rack, with overall system capacity scaling from smaller [...]
📅 - Colt Completes Quantum-Safe Transatlantic Network Trial - Colt Technology Services has completed what it describes as the world's first transatlantic trial of quantum-safe encrypted data transmission, marking a notable milestone in efforts to protect global internet traffic from future quantum computing threats.
The trial successfully transmitted data at 100GbE across Colt's terrestrial and transatlantic subsea networks, using quantum-resilient encryption technologies supplied by Nokia and Adtran.
The test focused on safeguarding data in motion against the potential decryption capabilities of quantum computers, which are expected to eventually undermine many of today's widely used cryptographic standards. For enterprises operating across [...]
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