Inside the Instituto de Telecomunicações

Friday, January 16, 2026
Golden Gate Bridge

Europe’s next digital backbone is not emerging from a single campus or corporate headquarters. It is taking shape through a distributed network of laboratories, researchers and industrial partners — and one of its most important nodes lies in Portugal. From Lisbon to Aveiro, the Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT) has become a quiet but decisive force in how Europe approaches artificial intelligence, next-generation networks and digital trust.

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Telefónica and the Price of European Sovereignty

Thursday, January 15, 2026
two women dancing outdoors

Telefónica is a century old. Once, it embodied Spanish modernity in its most tangible form: cables, exchanges, uniforms, physical presence. Today, it is something else — or is attempting to become something else entirely. Less visible. More abstract. More algorithmic. The central question is no longer how Telefónica grows, but what it is becoming.

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