Eurobites: Proximus sprouts more fiber around Brussels

Orange has flicked the switch on two new African "digital centers," one in Côte d'Ivoire and Cameroon. The centers comprise a coding school, a digital manufacturing workshop, a startup accelerator and Orange Ventures Africa, Orange's investment fund. There are now eight such centers in Africa, with more planned by the end of the year.

Telia is bringing the HBO Max streaming service onto its TV platform, offering the likes of The Sopranos and Gossip Girl to those Nordic households that want them. The fun starts on October 26.

There was a time neighbor disputes were all about outsize leylandii and badly timed bonfires; now it's smart-home technology that's prompting dirty looks across the garden fence. At least, that's the case in the English county of Oxfordshire, where security cameras and a connected Ring doorbell have given rise to a court case, with one neighbor, a Dr. Mary Fairhurst, affronted that the Amazon-controlled wizardry was keeping tabs on her garden as well as that of her early-adopter neighbor, Jon Woodard. As the BBC reports, the judge ruled in the doctor's favor, saying that the surveillance set-up was a breach of UK data laws, as the data it hoovered up related to her property as well as that of her neighbor. Mr. Woodard didn't see that coming up the garden path…

— Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, Light Reading