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Tenants spend more than recommended for rent. And there is something that explains it: “Hot Spots” internationalized

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Buying house is not easy. Rent, either. Every month a large part of Spanish families living as tenants disheve The advice Of the experts and expose their pockets to situations of “overexertion”, which means that they are forced to pay their landlords a pinch of their income greater than desirable. When it goes down to detail, like He has just made idealisthowever, a curious phenomenon is observed: not in all cities the tenants make the same effort. Moreover, there are many provincial capitals in which this effort is totally assumed. The Great question Therefore it is: is overwriting a problem of the Spanish residential market in general or rather something that weighs on certain internationalized cities, such as Madrid, Barcelona and Malaga? A percentage: 36%. That is the “effort rate” that supported the closure of 2024 Spanish households living for rent. Or at least this has been calculated idealist in A study in which he nourishes two major sources: the ads published on their own website and the National Statistics Institute (INE), which has served to obtain information on homes and rent of families. The data is interesting because (technicalities separately) the “effort rate” is an important indicator for any tenant: shows what percentage of income dedicates to paying your home. The general recommendation is that this expense It does not exceed 30% of annual profits. There are those who stretch it a little more and talk about overwhelming alone From 40%. One or another reference is taken, idealist reflects that on Middle Spain exceeds the 30% barrier and steady the red zone. Click on the image to go to Tweet. A figure: 981 euros. The study Not only does the thermometer that Spaniards make to pay their rentals make. It also goes down to data in euros and sound. And its conclusion is that, on average, in Spain there is a two -room -type floor requires 981 euros per month, quite above what it would have to cost for a home standard He could rent it without crossing that red line of 30% of his annual income. Idealista believes that this “reasonable” and assumed price is 764 euros. The fact is interesting again for several reasons. First because it reflects that the difference between the “reasonable” price and the average that is handled in the market is 217 euros per month. Second because the study shows that there are very few homes that fit (or are below) of those 764 euros. According to their calculations, they are only 32%, which means that the remaining 68% of the rental housing offer requires the tenants to tighten their finances. A city: Barcelona. In Your study Idealista goes down to the detail of some provincial capitals, which allows you to appreciate an interesting reality. The effort to deal with rentals is not equally intense in all cities. Moreover, there are enough cities in which (on average) families are not even forced to cross the red line of 30% of their annual income. It is well seen comparing two extreme cases: Barcelona and Ciudad Real. In the first, the city, idealist Calculate That the “reasonable rent” for a two -bedroom floor would be 1,036 euros. That is, that is the monthly income that Barcelona families could pay without having to spend more money from their recommended income. However, there are very few houses that fit that stop, only 16%. Royal market rentals are much higher and are on average in 1,796, which explains that the city has the highest effort rate of the capitals: 49%. In the opposite pole is Ciudad Real, where Idealista’s photo It is radically different. There the “reasonable rental” barrier would be at 881 euros, an amount to which 98% of the homes offered are adjusted. Moreover, the average monthly payment is requested by a two -bedroom house is 501 euros, below that red line. Consequently, the effort rate is only 16%. Capital Effort rate (two bedroom housing) Barcelona 49% Palm 45% Malaga 42% Madrid, Valencia 41% Alicante 38% Segovia 35% Las Palmas de GC, Donostia 34% S/C of Tenerife 33% Bilbao 32% Girona 31% Seville 30% Cádiz 28% Granada, Vitoria-Gasteiz 27% Pamplona, ​​Coruña 26% Ceuta, Salamanca, Guadalajara, Santander, Huelva, Almería 25% Tarragona, Pontevedra, Oviedo, Córdoba, Albacete, Castellón de la Plana 24% León, Valladolid, Zaragoza, Logroño, Ávila 23% Murcia, Badajoza, Zamora, Soria, Lugo, Burgos 22% Ourense, Cuenca, Cáceres, Lleida, Huesca, Toledo 21% Melilla, Jaén 20% Palencia, Teruel 19% Ciudad Real 16% Spain 36% One question: Is it an isolated case? No. Neither from Barcelona nor that of Ciudad Real. In fact, the report reveals something else: that although on Middle Spain it registers an effort rate of 36%, several points above the desirable for tenants, in reality that indicator only exceeds 30% in a handful of large capitals characterized by its high population, internationalization and tourist profile. In Malaga, for example, which has highlighted In recent years for its ability to capture technological multinationals and as Digital nomad destinationthe effort rate is 42%. In tourist points such as Palma, Valencia, Alicante, Las Palmas, Donostia or Tenerife also exceed 30%. A fact: 39 capitals. Ciudad Real is not the only town in which the effort rate is in the lathe or even below 20%. In the same situation are Teruel, Palencia, Jaén and Melilla. In general, the idealist reflects that there are 39 capitals in which the indicator does not reach 30%. Eight other provincial headwaters move between 30 and 40% and there are five between 40 and 49%. The data are in line with the evolution of the effort rate nationallywhich has remained between 2020 and 2021 around 30% and has increased in recent years, but without exceeding 40%, such as In Barcelona or Madrid. A footnote. The idealist study is just that, a study. And as such it must be taken, also taking into account that focusing its analysis on a very concrete profile: its authors have focused on a profile of 2.4 people/home, “a current average … Read more

Telefónica exhibits its defenses in Barcelona

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At some point the Quantum computers They will break the current encryption systems, and that risk will force all companies to completely rethink their safety protocols. Telefónica wants to anticipate with the creation of a center of excellence, as announced during the MWC 2025. Why is it important. The strategy initially focuses on what they have called “cryptility”: develop mechanisms that allow their systems to adapt quickly when quantum threats materialize. And this approach will also be offered to customers. The context. The advances in quantum computing are a counterreloj career for telecos. Who does not have their adapted systems when quantum threats materialize will remain in vulnerability situation. That will be when these computers reach enough power to break the current cryptography. Telefónica faces this transformation into full guard of guard, And not only in the presidency: Enrique Blanco, current Ctio Global, will leave the company at the end of March after four decades, being replaced by Andrea Folgueiras. Both appear in the image headed by this article. Between the lines. The “cryptility” strategy that seeks not only to protect its own networks, but to become a post-quantic security provider for third parties, opening a new business line. In other words: this announcement has to see that with improving security, but also with opening a new business line. Yes, but. The operator has not specified during the announcement the investment for the new center or how many professionals will integrate it, key aspects to understand the real magnitude of the commitment beyond the announcement. The statement also does not detail specific deadlines for the implementation of quantum solutions. It is limited to highlighting that they work on it as part of their future strategy. Asked the spokesmen for Xataka On this issue, Blanco did not give figures or specific deadlines, but he explained that they have been working in this field for a decade, doing limited evidence in areas such as Madrid or Vizcaya. Limited in distance (“no more than 70 kilometers”) or in the use of incipient, but not mature algorithms. Enrique Blanco at the end of the presentation, thanking the media for “his respect” in recent weeks in Telefónica. Image: Xataka. “We have a lot of knowledge in quantum technologies, we are starting to make applicable technology. And we begin to have an industry interested in this type of services, customers to work monographically,” Blanco said. He added that “I hope within three, four or five years we have a very relevant number of technicians who are managing services, sensory and quantum computing. The center is approved, we will begin to provide it with resources as Telefónica and outside of Telefónica.” In detail. The operator has presented three practical demonstrations in her stand of the MWC under the name ‘Quantum-Safe Networks‘: A ROV submarine operated remotely from Barcelona to Gran Canaria using 5G networks with post-chartic encryption, keeping low latency even under water. Smart accountants with protected ESIM through algorithms Quantum-Safpreventing future attackers to supplant operators or manipulate measurements. IoT devices with post-whattical encryption managed from the platform Kite. Image: Telefónica. In figures. This movement is part of a broader transformation that has already allowed Telefónica to reduce its energy consumption by 7.9% since 2015, while traffic multiplied by 9.3. The operator manages a network that reaches fiber 180 million homes and has deployed 5G SA In four key countries: Spain, Brazil, Germany and the United Kingdom. Missing? It remains to be seen if Telefónica will attract the necessary talent in a highly specialized field where the great technology around the world compete for the best Quantum Physics experts and engineering. Success will also depend on its ability to establish alliances with research centers and leading technology companies, since it can hardly develop all technology internally. And now what. The Center will coordinate the innovation lines of the different areas of Teleco, will promote new solutions and activate technological agreements with third parties, as Telefónica explained during its presentation. Meanwhile, Telefónica continues to advance in The hyper-automatization of your network through the ANJ programwith the aim of reaching this year the level 4 of autonomy in certain processes, allowing the network to make complex decisions for itself. In Xataka | European telecos in front of their existential battle: “If our hands unleashed, we will score goals” Outstanding image | Xataka

Nvidia lost 265,000 million dollars yesterday. Tariffs have caused terror among technology

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Nvidia lost 265,000 million dollars yesterday. It was an especially Aciaga for her, with 8.69% fall in the value of her action, but the day was dyed red throughout the technology industry. The trigger for that setback in the bags was clear: the tariffs. Donald Trump confirms tariffs. After announce tariffs to Canada and Mexicothe US president initially postponed his application, but yesterday announced that they would definitely enter into force as of today. It is a controversial measure that will make imports from Mexico and Canada apply 25%tariffs, which will make these goods more expensive. Immediate drop in bags. Trump’s announcement caused a clear collapse of several technological actions, but Nvidia was undoubtedly one of the most affected, with a fall of 8.69%. Intel lost 4.05%, Broadcom by 6.05%, and supermicro 13%. The red numbers were seen in much of the technological market, with all the great affected, although to a lesser extent than Nvidia. The indices confirm the fall. As They point The Kobeissi Letter analysts, the S&P index already opened down, and Trump’s announcement quickly precipitated the fall: in just six hours the values ​​included in this index had lost more than 100 points, about 1.5 billion dollars jointly. Nvidia’s shares has returned to September 2024 levels. Source: Google Finance. Relationship with Mexico. Although most Nvidia chips are manufactured in Taiwan, some of their most advanced systems and equipment based on these chips are manufactured in other regions that include both the US and Mexico. That means that these products would be affected by these tariffs. Curiously, Trump’s announcement did nothing but reaffirm Mexico’s plans with the Foxconn plant in Jalisco: it will be the most important assembly factory of the GB200 cards with Nvidia Blackwell architecture, and those responsible for They promised which will be finished in a year despite tariffs. TSMC and its project in the US. Trump took advantage of a conference yesterday to confirm The announcement of TSMC, which will invest 100,000 million dollars more – he had yet paid 65,000 million – in manufacturing plants on American soil. Nvidia indicated in CNBC that would manufacture chips in those facilities, which would allow tariffs. In Nvidia they are still optimistic. In spite of everything, Huang Indian A few days ago this second quarter of the year promises to be positive for the company. Everything has already prepared to manufacture their new chips with Blackwell architecture, and have corrected the defects that were detected in the first phases of production. Crypts also collapse. He announcement of strategic cryptor He had promoted the value of cryptocurrencies, but yesterday’s events also remarkably affected this market. Bitcoin lost more than 8%value, Ethereum almost 15%, XRP 17.61%, Solana 19.57%and adapt 18%. These were the five cryptocurrencies mentioned by Trump for that initiative, and the fall was huge in all of them. Image |Hillel Steinberg In Xataka | ‘The Nvidia Way’: This book is the perfect tool to understand how Jensen Huang has taken Nvidia to the top of success

Anthropic lifts another 3.5 billion investment. It is just what they need to survive in an absolutely unleashed segment

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It’s as if money It is not over. At least in the case of AI, a sector in which spectacular investment rounds follow each other continuously. The confidence in startups and companies that work in AI models is extraordinary in the United States, and we have a last example of that AI fever. Anthropic lifts 3.5 billion dollars. The company has announced which has managed to complete a new investment round that will allow you to have 3.5 billion dollars from now on. It is not a figure as high as those they achieved OpenAI either XAI Recently, but it is still colossal. This time the great protagonists have not been Amazon or Google, but Lightspeed Venture Partners and other venture capital firms. It is worth more than Mercedes-Benz. That round makes the current assessment of Anthropic ascend to 61.5 billion dollars, an equally unique figure that would place it ahead of Mercedes-Benz (60,000 million dollars of valuation) if we equate that assessment with the market capitalization of the German automotive giant. But far from OpenAi. The investment round raised was going to be about 2,000 million dollars, but there was more demand than expected and finally raised much more money. Of course, its current assessment is still far from Openai’s, which is estimated to be around 300,000 million dollars. Money to continue working in AI. Those responsible for Anthropic point out how that new capital injection will allow them to continue developing “smarter and most capable AI systems that expand the ability that the human being can achieve.” Income is encouraged, but …. The projected income rate (Revenue Run Rate) of Anthropic was in 2024 of 1,000 million Ded Dolla, but now it is estimated that this rate has grown by 30%, a really fast pace. It is a remarkable figure, but it is probably well below what the company spends over a year to disappoint its models and maintain all its operational infrastructure. It is estimated which in 2024 spent 5.6 billion dollars. Claude 3.7 Sonnet animates things. The recent launch of its new hybrid model, Claude 3.7 Sonnethas once again demonstrated that the company is still a clear reference in this sector. The performance of this model is outstanding, especially in areas such as programming. But his future is complicated. Despite having one of the best generative products in the market, the company It depends absolutely on risk capital And of these investment rounds, at least for now. The competition is fierce And it also comes from companies with many more funds, which further complicates the thing for Anthropic. Investment in AI is unleashed. But for now it does not seem that the rhythm decays. The investment rounds continue to reach both these startups and companies already settled and the new ones that for example created recently Look Murati either Ilya Sutskever. The expectations about AI remain huge, and that continues to make money not stop. That is good news for the segment in general, but above all for Anthropic in particular. In Xataka | Choose between security and survival: the dilemma that terrifies the CEO of Anthropic in the US and China AI war

Five offers to make the most of the orange days of PcComponentes. Mobile, computers, peripherals and more

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During this week we can take advantage of the many offers he has launched (and will launch) pccomponents in his campaign orange days. Every day there are new offersso it is interesting to see what are the novelties offered by the store. Therefore, in this article we have gathered the five best offers that PCComponentes currently has in mobile, computers, peripherals and more. Lenovo loq by 799 eurosa very complete gaming laptop with 32 GB of RAM and graphic RTX 4050. Xiaomi 14t by 499.98 eurosone of Xiaomi’s mobiles with better value for money in its 512 GB version. Logitech G502 Lightspeed by 69.99 eurosa very complete wireless gaming mouse. MSI Cyborg 15 by 859 eurosan interesting gaming laptop with 1 TB of SSD and RTX 4050 graph. Logitech Pack G29 by 265 eurosa pack that includes a steering wheel, pedals and gaming headphones. Lenovo loq One of the best offers of the Oranges days is found on the laptop Lenovo loqa quite complete gaming team for 799 euros (Before 1,014.06 euros) which costs. Mount a 15.6 -inch antirreflective IPS screen that offers a resolution of 1,920 x 1,080 pixels and a 144 Hz refreshment rate. On the internal level we have the AMD Ryzen 7000 processor together with 24 GB of RAM and 1 TB of SSD, its graphics card is a NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 4050 And it comes without operating system. * Some price may have changed from the last review Xiaomi 14t He Xiaomi 14t He has not stopped being lowered during the numerous offers of the stores. PCcomponentes currently has one of the best prices in its 512 GB versionsince it stays for only 499.98 euros. Xiaomi’s mobile comes with a very good 6.67 -inch AMOLED screen, offers a 1.5K resolution and a 144 Hz soda rate, its processor is MediaTak Dimensity 8300 Ultra and its cameras are signed by Leica. * Some price may have changed from the last review Logitech G502 Lightspeed He Logitech G502 It is one of the most popular gaming mice, and its Ligthspeed version (wireless) now has one of the best discounts we have seen to date. Pccomponentes has it for 69.99 euros instead of 159 euros, and stands out mainly for its “infinite” wheel, for the possibility of changing weight (Through small weights), for being compatible with the Logitech G Hub software, for autonomy and for being very ergonomic. * Some price may have changed from the last review MSI Cyborg 15 We can also find a good price on the laptop MSI Cyborg 15a gaming equipment with excellent value for money. Right now it is found by 859 euros; Of course, it will only be offer today, since it is a limited offer of the oranges. Mount a 15.6-inch IPS screen that offers a full HD resolution and a 144 Hz refreshment rate, its processor is the raptor Lake I7-13620H, it has 16 GB of RAM and 1 TB of SSD, Your graphics card is an RTX 4050 And it comes without operating system. * Some price may have changed from the last review Logitech Pack G29 If you like driving video games and want Logitech Pack G29. Its price is 265 euros and includes a steering wheel Logitech G29 Driving Force with its own pedals and gaming logitech g432. It is worth mentioning that the steering wheel is Compatible with PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 and PC. * Some price may have changed from the last review Some of the links of this article are affiliated and can report a benefit to Xataka. In case of non -availability, offers may vary. Images | PCComponentes y Buyadicción (header), Lenovo, Xiaomi, Logitech, MSI In Xataka | Best gaming laptops. Which buy and eight computers recommended from 770 to 3,000 euros In Xataka | The best mobiles, we have tried them and here are their analysis

Vodafone displays the largest public Wi -Fi network in Spain connecting all Andalusia. Even the Alhambra

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Vodafone and the Junta de Andalucía have announced in the MWC 2025 – and among mutual praise – the implementation of the largest public Wi -Fi network in Spain, connecting 3,100 administrative venues in 700 Andalusian municipalities. The Vuela Plan offers free Internet access for 8 million citizens and public employees through an infrastructure that has required 27,000 access points and 800 km wiring. Why it is important. The network guarantees universal Internet access throughout Andalusia, in view of “overcoming the digital divide” and modernizing public administration. The infrastructure allows any Andalusian to connect to the Internet for free to any of the administrative venues, from small municipalities to hospitals, through historical buildings such as The Alhambrawhere the installation works were extended for almost a year to respect their patrimonial value, according to the announcement of the Teleco. In figures. The project has meant a massive technological deployment that we do not remember precedents in the Spanish public administration. 27,000 Wi -Fi access points. 4,500 concentrators installed. 800 kilometers of wiring. 700 connected municipalities. 82 Coordinated organizations in the deployment. In detail. The plan flies, announced by Antonio SanzDirector of the Presidency, Interior, Social Dialogue and Administrative Simplification of the Junta de Andalucía, Structure connectivity in three different networks that fulfill specific functions according to the type of user. The Vuela network offers public access with safe authentication for citizens. The corporate network connects public employees in the 5,500 headquarters allowing mobility between buildings. The third is dedicated to IoT devices to manage sensors, hospital equipment and asset location. During the presentation, the counselor has talked about increasing the utility for the citizen and “being more agile”, coming to talk about the ability to attract Digital nomads. “No one is left behind.” Between bambalins. The deployment has had to overcome several technical and logistics challenges to respect the characteristics of each space. It has been necessary to adapt the installation to hospitals with strict protocols, remote municipalities or protected historical buildings. The network has a dedicated core that guarantees professional benefits, similar to those of any commercial operator. And now what? The network solves the poor connectivity that affected many administrative buildings, as stated during the presentation, and responds to the demand for a Wi -Fi network. Now citizens will have internet in health centers, libraries and public offices where there was not before. O It was limited to the cable for employees. Outstanding image | Xataka In Xataka | European telecos in front of their existential battle: “If our hands unleashed, we will score goals”

For the first time, a private company has managed to reach the moon successfully. And it has been after resurgence from bankruptcy

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The early morning of March 2, the Blue Ghost ship of Firefly Aerospace fell gently on the lunar surface. It was the First time in history that a private company achieved a completely successful moon landing: in vertical and with the solar panels well -oriented to survive the 14 days that a lunar day lasts. Blue Ghost nailed the moon landing. Preceded by the failures of the Beresheet ships (From the Israeli company Spaceil), Hakuto-R (of the Japanese ispace), Pilgrim (of the American astrobotic) and Odysseus (also American intuitive machines), Blue Ghost landed in a stable position after a descent maneuver designed to dodge rocks and dangerous geographical accidents. The lunar module touched soil in the Mare Crisium region, near the volcanic formation of Mons Latreille. The instruments and sensors on board reported that Blue Ghost was at an optimal angle, and the first images of the shadow projected by the Firefly Aerospace ship showed that it had perched on the lunar surface vertically. A respite for NASA. The historical achievement of the Texana company is also an achievement for NASA, which breathes quiet after the first round of the CLPS program (Commercial Lunar Payload Services), designed to send regular missions to the Moon in commercial ships. Intuitive machines I could achieve the second in a couple of dayswhen its new Nova-C module athens tries to alunize in the South Lunar Pole after Nova-C Odysseus overturns in February 2024. The Ghost Riders. On board the Blue Ghost module of Firefly there is a series of instruments, experiments and technological demonstrators, mainly from NASA, that will drill the soil to collect samples, investigate how the dust rises to mitigate the problems they represent in future lunar missions, and measure the level of radiation and the magnetic activity in the environment. Blue Ghost will display and operate these loads for 14 terrestrial days, equivalent to a lunar day, before the lack of sunlight and the very low temperatures compromise their batteries. An eclipse of earth. Blue Ghost has already given us overwhelming images of the Dawn on the moon or the Planet Earth in the firmament. “We are all in that image,” Firefly engineers recalled during the press conference. But the best will come in the last days of mission. Among the planned mission milestones are the capture in high definition of a total eclipse on March 14, when the earth blocks the sun from the perspective of the ship on the moon, as well as a recording of the lunar twilight on March 16 in which we will see the lunar dust levitating. The Renaissance of Firefly Aerospace. The Firefly feat is especially remarkable taking into account the recent history of the company, marked by a bankruptcy, an internal scandal and a sound change in property. Firefly was saved by the Ukrainian inverter Max Polykovwho invested around 200 million dollars and resurrected the company. However, Polykov was forced by the United States government to sell its majority participation in 2022 for a symbolic price of 1 dollar. And all for geopolitical reasons. Since then, Firefly was under the majority control of the private capital firm AE Industrial Partners. His current CEO is Jason Kim, who assumed the company’s management in October 2024 after his predecessor, Bill Weber, retired from An alleged inappropriate relationship With an employee. Image | Firefly Aerospace In Xataka | In 2011, a collector bought in Morocco a meteorite. It has turned out to be a direct test of thermal water on Mars

“If our hands unleashed, we will score goals”

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The top managers of Telefónica, Vodafone, Orange and Deutsche Telekom have joined forces in the MWC 2025 With a clear message: or Europe allows the consolidation of the European sector or telecos will die slowly against American and Asian giants. A cry of help that intensifies last year’s tone and raises the debate from the business to geopolitical. According to its unanimous message, Europe is trapped in a contradiction that is gradually suffocating its telecommunications sector. While regulators applaud the multitude of operators as a sign of healthy markets, financial figures tell something very different: a fragmented, weakened and unable sector to compete on a global scale. The new president of Telefónica, Marc Murtra, It had already been direct about it in the inaugural session of the Mobile World Congress 2025: “It is time for large European telecommunications companies to consolidate and grow to create technological capacity,” he said a few hours before. And during the CEOs panel of the sector, it was even more graphic: “We operated in a fragmented market, it’s like playing football with a hand tied to the back. If we unleash our hands, we will score a few goals.” From the regret to strategic warning It is not a new theme, but has reached a critical point. The combined stock value of all European telecos has been joining while that of the Americans, such as AT&T, have been growing for years. Meanwhile, giants such as Microsoft, Apple or Alphabet – which use telecommunications networks as highways for their services – exceed them alone the billion dollars of valuation. Long The change in tone is evident to the MWC 2024, when the CEOs of these same telecos also demanded regulatory changes, but With a more focused approach to asking for contributions to Big Tech. This year the speech has hardening and reoriented towards the existential need for consolidation for survivaltransmitting more urgency and appealing directly to European technological sovereignty. The Vodafone CEO, Margherita Della Valle, said it without windows: “Europe needs a new pact, which passes through a European regulatory framework.” And he added that “the time has come to move from Marmota to the European Digital Renaissance,” in allusion to repeated regulatory change requests that make year after year without results. The European regulatory trap European rules have created A perfect trap: They prioritize the immediate benefit for the consumer (low prices) sacrificing the future viability of the sector and its ability to invest. This vision, anchored in ideas of the 90s about competition, ignores that the world has completely changed. Murtra, in his first public act as executive president of Telefónica, has been devastating in his diagnosis: “We must be aware that the excessive fragmentation of European TMT, excess regulation and insufficient profitability of the sector have weighed Europe, which has been technologically lagging behind.” The CEOs of the four major European operators during the panel in the MWC 2025. Image: Telefónica. Tim Höttges, CEO of Deutsche Telekom, was the most explicit when putting numbers to the disadvantage: “In the US, the average income per customer is at 42 euros per mobile and 58 euros for the fiber, while in Europe 15 euros are entered for the mobile and 13 euros for the fiber.” And he added a rather revealing fact about the bureaucratization of the sector: “I have told how many regulators served as Deutsche Telekom. Do you know how many? 270 regulators. We have media regulation, cybersecurity, privacy, telecommunications … at the local level and European level.” In the United States, consolidation has left three major national operators that compete with each other, but with enough size to spend massively in infrastructure. In Europe, with 34 main and 351 virtual operators, no company reaches the size necessary to compete globally. Each European country has 3 or 4 average operators, but the problem is another: each operator is usually strong only in some markets. The result is a European industry with tight margins, little investment capacity and a constant drop in its value. Deutsche Telekom has only been able to grow thanks to his American T-Mobile subsidiary. “Today we make 65% of our income in the US,” Höttges revealed, admitting that his company’s solution has been precisely “to fold the bet” in the American market. Consolidation: inevitable but blocked The consolidation of the sector is mathematically inevitable. Technology markets tend naturally towards structures with few actors due to economies of scale. Resisting this only delays the inevitable while weakens everyone. However, European regulators remain firm: in the last five years They have blocked or imposed very hard conditions to almost all important fuses proposals. The operation between O2 and Three in the United Kingdom It was rejectedthe TPG and Vodafone fusion In Australia it took years to approve, and here in Spain we saw how The Orange-Másmobo union only crystallized after concessions that risked their profitability. Della Valle highlighted the British case as an example of what should be: “In the United Kingdom, Vodafone has just launched a massive investment plan to build one of the best networks in the world. 11,000 million invested. Why could we do this? Because we had managed to scale through a fusion.” This resistance comes from European institutional cultureto. The commission has built its reputation as a consumer defender, maintaining seemingly competitive markets, mainly measured by the number of companies competing. Changing this would mean that the policies of the last two decades have been counterproductive. The price of doing nothing The effects are already noticed. Investment in new networks per inhabitant in Europe is much lower than in the United States. European 5G coverage (81%) It is delayed with respect to the American and China (More than 95%). Christel Heydemann, CEO of Orange, has stressed that “today our investors punish us when we invest more. What we want are investments that we know that they will boost scale, and the scale brings a smaller cost for jigwhich means lower prices for consumers and ability to … Read more

Spacex aborted the rocket takeoff for the first time from flight 1, two years ago

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Spacex has aborted the eighth launch of Starship when there was half a minute for takeoff. Although it is a rocket in tests, this type of last minute cancellation had only happened once. A two -year run. The last time Spacex aborted the launch of a starship loaded with propelants was in April 2023. A frozen valve in Booster 7 frustrated the first attempt to launch the rocket. Almost two years have passed and now both Booster 15 and Starship 34 have given problems. The company stopped the countdown to take off of flight 8 while checking both stages of the rocket. For a moment, the clock worked again and it seemed that Spacex had solved all the setbacks, but seconds later it ended up aborting the takeoff. “Too many unknowns.” As usual, Elon Musk has been the first to offer details of what was happening between scenes. “Too many question signs around this flight”, wrote. “We were 20 bars below the required pressure level.” Musk mentioned the “Ground Spin Start Pressure”, which is the necessary pressure in the gas that is injected into engines so that the turbine turbine turns quickly enough to generate complete combustion and turn on. The next attempt. “The Starship team is determining the next best opportunity available to fly,” Spacex published After the interruptus launch. It will need to disapprove both stages of the rocket and examine them, Musk said, so the company will take one to two days to try again. In 2023, the company took 48 hours to have its facilities for a second attempt. 4,900 tons of propellants. That is the monstrous amount of methane and liquid oxygen that fits in a starship. Spacex will have to replenish the propellants in their tanks farm for a new launch attempt, which normally implies a truck parade towards the platform. First Starship from Florida in 2025. Although there has been no launch, Spacex has had time to announce a new Starships factory at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Gigabay will have 24 work areas and cranes of 400 tons larger than Starbase. It is expected to be operational in 2026. While building these new facilities, Spacex will transport Texas Starships to Florida and wait for the first launch of the rocket from Florida in 2025, provided that the Government approves its environmental review.

LaLiga IPS blockages are based on a mysterious judicial sentence. Rootedcon is trying to legally cancel it

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The War between LaLiga and Cloudflare The IPS blockages ordered by LaLiga to fight against illegal soccer matches leave thousands of websites, but for a few days there are an effort specifically aimed at trying to end the problem. Rootcon against the sentence in which LaLiga is shield. Those responsible for Rootedcon They organized two weeks ago an initiative to collect data and testimonies of those affected. These are companies or people who have seen how their websites – totally legitimate – have been harmed and have ceased to be temporarily accessible during those IPS blockages. That may also have caused economic losses, but the situation persists without being a solution on the horizon. Legal Arthimañas. That is precisely what Rootedcon is trying to do, which has announced that he has raised: “An incident of nullity in the Commercial Court number 6 of Barcelona, ​​against Judgment No. 310/2024, dated December 18, 2024, achieved through legal arthingswhich is used by the League to force operators to block and restrict Internet access in their fight against “piracy” at the request of the football company. This ruling, and the way in which it is being used, violates fundamental rights and limits free access to information, a right that we consider unnegotiable. “ Request for nullity for the sentence. In Xataka we have contacted those responsible for Rootedcon, who have explained that this process is not a legal lawsuit as such, but a petition so that this sentence on which LaLiga is supported is annulled. This sentence has been difficult to locate, and according to rootedcon it should be annulled by violating fundamental rights. There is damage to third parties. As we already explained, the procedures in which LaLiga is shielded They are debatable at the legal levelespecially because the Article 21 of the Civil Procedure Law (LEC). According to this text, the search should be rejected when it involves damage to third parties not demanded in the procedure. Here many affected have not demanded have been –all economically harmed companies and individuals-, but still the measures (the IPS blocks) have been executed anyway. Defense of Freedom of Expression. For rooted with this conflict is being used “to justify actions that limit access to content in the network” and that constitutes “an injustice against freedoms of expression and information.” As they explain in their communication, this blockade “is massive and not only affects the assumptions cybercriminals, but economically impacts the activity of many organizations and companies.” There are currently more than 140,000 websites using Cloudflare services. Not everyone has been affected by the cuts, but of course a part of them. Source: Builtwith. About 140,000 affected potentials. An analysis of the IPS blocked in Cloudflare shows how these IPS are being shared at the moment For more than 140,000 websites. Not everyone is inaccessible, of course: it depends on the services that these websites have hired with this company. However, in that list are all kinds of companies: from the media (El País, El Mundo, La Vanguardia, RTVE) to large companies such as Carrefour, Decathlon, Idealist or Pccomponent) and of course websites of more modest projects that are also losing business opportunities for those blockages. And among them, football team websites. Ironically, lalaiga -instructed locks They are also affecting to the websites of First Division equipment. A systems administrator called Jaume Pons has been tracking these blockages for some time and last weekend he warned how the Girona FC online store It was inaccessibleas had also happened to the Valencia CF website either To Kelmesponsor of the Spanish RCD. The legal battle continues. Blocks too. The situation remains worrying for users and companies that legitimately use Internet services in our country. They have become involuntary victims of a Legal battle between LaLiga and Cloudflare that at the moment does not seem to have a solution. The latter began legal actions against LaLigabut there have been no changes in the way of acting of LaLiga, which continues to order these blockages and affect thousands and thousands of users. Image | Madrid athletic In Xataka | This is how Ech works, the Technological Shield of Cloudflare that has put the operators between the sword and the wall

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