James Blackman

Vodafone and other major European operators are advancing a federated telco edge-cloud designed to support sovereign AI and IoT workloads, positioning it as a home-grown alternative to hyperscaler platforms.

An interview with TM Forum, in two parts, about where telcos are up to with network autonomy, and the work to scale point solutions into vendor-agnostic deployments across entire network operations.

Telcos will not achieve network autonomy or business change by layering AI agents onto monolithic legacy systems, says TM Forum in the second half of its discussion with RCR.

SpaceX's IPO filing reads less like a techno-futurist manifesto – but then that's his business: a vertically integrated empire of rockets, satellites, and

Germany's sovereign cloud push is advancing with Deutsche Telekom and SAP winning a BMDS AI platform tender built on the “Deutschland-Stack”, while

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; hardly very close to the action.

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

Europe is reshaping its digital economy around sovereignty – from satellite spectrum and sovereign cloud to citizen identity systems.

Something and nothing, but worth memorializing – especially after all the policy talk about sovereignty.

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