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A new study shows a clear 5G digital divide between non-contiguous areas and the mainland US, mainly driven by spectrum and geography.

With websites getting bigger, many web services are becoming harder to access when networks are put under stress.

Since July 2020, 136 countries have registered new data centers in PeeringDB, 21 of which are the first in their country.

A new method combines information from routers and public carbon intensity APIs to estimate network emissions at the level of individual traffic flows.

The lack of standardized censorship methods is unintentionally affecting critical sectors in Iraq, including education, business infrastructure, research platforms, and public services.

Despite massive investments by hyperscalers and CDNs into private backbone infrastructure, public Internet Exchanges (IXPs) remain a vital mechanism for traffic localization, reducing latency, and efficiently reaching local "eyeball" networks.

Measuring Internet quality does not necessarily require more measurement points but a greater understanding and reporting of anomalies.

Can mobile networks replace fiber-optic broadband networks in a sustainable way, particularly in rural areas, where low population density makes fiber rollout particularly costly?

The Iranian case points to a broader shift in how digital connectivity may be governed amid geopolitical volatility.

Authoritative Domain Name System (DNS) infrastructure provides the definitive source of truth for all websites, including e-government services.

Given that the Internet is a hybrid of IPv4, IPv6, and dual-stack (both IPv4 and IPv6) networks, it is important to understand performance in each IP version.

Better visibility into submarine cable infrastructure could help operators detect outages faster, reroute traffic more efficiently.