Infrastructure & Networks

US colocation and wholesale data centre provider H5 Data Centers has acquired a 240,000 sq ft, purpose-built data centre in Quincy, Washington.

Mediaset, Italy’s biggest commercial broadcaster, has partnered with F2i, the infrastructure fund, to make a $1.89 billion bid for tower company El Towers.

UK security experts say that Huawei telecoms equipment has shortcomings that may pose threats to telecoms networks in the country.

The Hawaiki Submarine Cable System, which links Australia, New Zealand, Pacific islands and the United States, is now ready-for-service.

Capacity speaks to Cartesian's Massimo Fatato on the cultural shift the wholesale industry greatly needs and how employee evolution is key to virtualisation.

Seaborn Networks and Telecom Argentina have struck an agreement that will see the Argentina and Brazil (ARBR) subsea cable system land at the latter’s cable landing station (CLS) in Las Toninas.

Liquid Telecom, the pan-African telco, has appointed Ahmad Mokhles as its new group chief operating officer.

Masmovil, a Spanish operator, has entered into a 10-year agreement with Ufinet, a fibre optics telecoms operator.

CenturyLink has announced a new dedicated and private access service to Oracle Cloud through the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure FastConnect platform.

VIRTUS Data Centres has announced that its new London data centre campus, one of the largest in the UK capital, is now live.

Verizon has named an acting CTO to take over the company’s technology brief after Hans Vestberg becomes CEO.

Google Cloud has announced plans to build its first private trans-Atlantic subsea cable – Dunant, which will connect France and the US.

Packet Clearing House (PCH) has extended its relationship with France-IX through two new connections at France-IX Marseille as well as an upgrade to its existing Paris connections.

Telstra and Intel have completed the first end-to-end 5G non-standalone (NSA) 3GPP data call on a commercial mobile network using Ericsson equipment.

TDC has completed its withdrawal back into Denmark by selling its last non-Danish business, TDC Norway, to Telia.

Liquid Telecom has struck an agreement with Telecom Egypt that will allow the African operator to complete a pan-African terrestrial fibre network, stretching from Cape Town, South Africa, to Cairo, Egypt.

Orange has struck a €350 million deal to buy a 100% stake in Basefarm Holding, a cloud infrastructure and critical applications provider for the enterprise sector.

Cirrus Data Solutions (CDS) is entering the data centre market in Salt Lake City with the launch of a new facility in the area.

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) is partnering with Singapore Internet Exchange (SGIX) to launch a new point of presence (PoP) in STT Tai Seng 1.

Satellite operator ViaSat has partnered with Israeli airline El Al to launch an in-flight wifi system that will be offered across the majority of its fleet.

Metro Optic and Crosslake Fibre have partnered to build a new fibre cable system linking the Canadian cities of Montreal and Toronto, including a submarine part running through Lake Ontario.

James (Jim) Turner, CEO of Indiana Fiber Network (IFN), has been appointed to INDATEL’s board of directors making him the second IFN CEO to serve on the board.

Infomart Data Centers, a US wholesale carrier-neutral data centre provide, has confirmed progress of its sustainability initiatives.

Global satellite operators, Intelsat, SES and Eutelsat, are working together on a market-based proposal for future use of the lower C-band spectrum in the US.

Interxion has officially launched its new London data centre facility, its third in the city, at an event at the UK capital’s City Hall building.

NEC’s Indian subsidiary NECTI has been selected BSNL to design, engineer, supply, install and implement a subsea cable system connect India’s Chennai and the Adnaman and Nicobar Islands (A&N Islands).

FiberLight, a fibre connectivity solutions partner, has revamped its corporate branding strategy, with a new logo, updated messaging and a redesigned website.

Openreach has picked Huawei and Nokia to supply technology for its rollout of fibre to three million UK homes and businesses.

The European Commission (EC) and the European Investment Bank (EIB), together with KfW, Cassa depositi e prestiti and Caisse des Dépôts, have pooled €420 million for the Connecting Europe Broadband Fund.

The International Cable Protection Committee (ICPC) has achieved consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Committee as of April this year.

Orange’s Kanawa cable, which will link French Guiana, Martinique and Guadeloupe, has been targeted as ready for service by January 2019.

Spanish satellite operator Hispasat has agreed to invest in LeoSat Enterprises, which is due to launch a constellation of low-earth-orbit communications satellites.

Telstra’s network chief Mike Wright told the company this morning that he will leave at the end of September.

The keynote panel at this year’s Subsea EMEA conference, fuelling the international subsea market place that Byron Clatterbuck, CEO of Seacom says “is the gateway into Europe”.

Chinese-owned carrier CITIC Telecom CPC has launched a software defined wide area network (SD-WAN) service across its European network.

Microsoft, in partnership with SEACOM, has launched a cloud service which allows customer to extend their on-premise networks to the cloud, bypassing the public internet.

Coriant has launched its Network Operating System (NOS), a carrier-class, disaggregated IP/MPLS software solution for carrier, enterprise, and cloud networks.

Globalinx Data Centers says it is 4 months away from completion phase I of its 10,750 square-foot data centre in Virginia Beach.

NEC Corporation has signed an agreement to build the new Bay to Bay Express Cable System (BtoBE) for a consortium comprised of China Mobile International (CMI), Facebook and Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Orange has received ARCEP approval to expand its 5G testing grounds from Lille and Douai to Marseille in France.

SEACOM has partnered with FibreCo, an open access carrier services provider, to light up its dark fibre route that runs from Johannesburg to Durban.

Mexico has opened the tender process for its fibre backbone project Red Troncal. Jorge Espinosa Mireles discusses the investment opportunity the trunk network offers to international operators.

NTT Communications has launched a new point of presence in Ireland, located at Equinix’s DB1 data centre in Dublin, marking its first PoP in the city.

Seaborn Networks has added former Yahoo director Mehmet Akcin to its board of advisors to work on a variety of strategic, commercial and technical opportunities.

CK Hutchison’s Three UK has become the first known customer of the new wholesale backhaul service announced in June by SSE Enterprise Telecoms to compete with BT and Virgin Media.

Omantel has partnered with Equinix to launch a new data centre in Oman, offering content delivery and interconnection services to customers in the Middle East.

Tunisie Telecom has upgraded its IP transit port at Sparkle’s Sicily Hub in Palermo to 100Gbps.

China Tower, a Chinese mobile mast operator, has received approval for an IPO in Hong Kong that could potentially raise $10 billion in funds.

The Hellenic Telecommunications & Post Commission - Ethniki Epitropi Tilepikoinonion kai Tachydromeion (EETT) has greenlit Vodafone Greece’s acquisition of Cyta Hellas with a total enterprise value of €118 million.

The internet of things will create a need for a tight mesh of data centres to deliver low latency for autonomous vehicles, according to speakers at this week’s Capacity Europe East.

The Globe Telecom board of directors has approved a plan to create a new independent company for its tower assets.

A team from two European universities have found a way of extending the reach of repeaterless fibre by six times – potentially reducing the cost of subsea and terrestrial cables.

Martin Springer has resigned as CEO of CMC Networks after only 18 months in the role, with former AT&T exec Marisa Trisolino named as his successor.

Ericsson is the first telecoms vendor to benefit from rival company ZTE’s dispute with the US by capturing a €600 million contract.

Vocus Group and Alcatel Submarine Networks are to build and deploy the Coral Sea Cable System linking the Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea and Australia.

Tata Communications has launched a point of presence (PoP) at the EdgeConneX Portland Edge Data Center (EDC) providing interconnection to Tata’s carrier-grade IP transit service.

Hong Kong-based data centre infrastructure company Chayora has reached the midpoint of its construction of a new data centre located in Beichen, China.

DE-CIX has expanded its presence in Munich by launching services in a data centre in the Bavarian capital owned by EMC HostCo.

Flexenclosure is expanding its Latin American footprint with the launch of two new eCentre data centres in Nicaragua and Honduras.

Bulgarian carrier Sofia Connect is building a new dark fibre network to connect data centres in the city plus a connection from the Black Sea cable to Frankfurt.

Italy’s TIM has signed a deal with six maintenance and infrastructure companies with the aim of gaining greater efficiency.

Belgian Institute for Postal services and Telecommunications (BIPT) has approved the proposed fixed market regulations in a bid to create competition and offer more choice in broadband and broadcasting.

German dark fibre carrier GasLine is planning to expand its network to Amsterdam in the Netherlands and into Switzerland.

A subsidiary of Bulgarian natural gas company Overgas is to build a wireless network which will offer wholesale capacity to other operators.

A company that finds new uses for last-generation telecoms equipment is expanding into eastern Europe.

Colt Technology Services is at an advanced stage of expanding its network to six eastern European capital cities, with a long-term idea to reach further.

A £175 million deal that would have seen UK-based telecoms firm TalkTalk offload its direct B2B unit to wholesaler and reseller Daisy has collapsed, according to a stock exchange filing.

MainOne’s data centre subsidiary, MDXI, has received its Tier III Constructed Facility certification (TCCF) from the Uptime Institute.

Colt Technology Services and EdgeConneX have partnered to link up Colt’s IQ Network to several EdgeConneX facilities, offering connectivity closer to the edge.

The Mexican state-owned telecoms operator Telecomm has opened up bids for the development of a new wholesale fibre network.

GÉANT has selected Coriant’s Groove G30 network disaggregation platform and the Coriant Transcend Chorus transport network to scale its European backbone network.

NTT Communications (NTT Com) and VMware are extending their 10-year cloud partnership with NTT Com now offering the Enterprise Cloud (ECL) powered by VMware Cloud Foundation on a global scale.

G-Core Labs, a provider of global IT solutions, has connect to Asteroid Internet Exchange Point (IXP) with 100Gbps Ethernet (100GE).

Juniper Networks has expanded its campus portfolio, including its EVPN-VXLAN fabric to the campus creating a common architecture for campus and data centre fabrics.

An incubation project launched by Orange has developed open source code aimed at speeding up the adoption of interoperable optical transport networks.

Infomart Data Centers has named data centre executive Donough Roche as its new chief operating officer.

Organisations need to get into the right mind-set to successfully integrate SD-WAN into modern work environments, said a panel at WAN Frankfurt.

100G connections and access to Retelit’s AAE-1 subsea cable and the main Italian European internet exchanges from the consortium’s neutral and carrier-independent Carini hub.

Mixed thoughts from panel at Day 2 of WAN Frankfurt, on the best provider strategy for hybrid WAN deployments

Epsilon has teamed with Chinese on-demand connectivity provider DCConnect to interconnect software-defined networking and offer two-way inter-carrier SDN network orchestration.

Huawei has completed what it claims is the industry’s first live demonstration of a 600G single-wavelength ultra-high-speed transmission system.

“There is no one size fits all,” when it comes to WAN - that’s according to Hussein Khazaal, head of marketing & technology partnerships at Nuage Networks.

EdgeConneX has announced an expansion of its Denver facility and a new partnership with Megaport at the US site.

Thomas Lentz, solution manager of innovative services at Singtel and Markus Feldbruegge, network consultant at Henkel, share their case study of a successful SD-WAN deployment to a existing hybrid network.

Bharti Airtel has today announced the appointments of Ajay Chitkara as director and CEO of Airtel Business and Pankaj Miglani as CEO of Global Business.

Daisy Group chief executive Neil Muller has left the British wholesale and channel company after three and a half years in charge.

Megaport has made a dedicated and private access to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure FastConnect available in London.

US telecommunications company Bluebird Network has built its first customer-facing 100G diverse circuits.

Infomart Data Centers has appointed Phil Koen as a member of its board of directors and as the company’s interim chief executive officer.

UK energy company SSE is launching a wholesale backhaul service today to compete with BT Wholesale and Virgin Media Business.

Silver Peak has launched a new segmentation and security service chaining by deploying Unity EdgeConnect SD-WAN solution.

Research and analysis technology company Futuriom has revealed that the SD-WAN market is to top $1.5 billion by 2019 and $2.5 billion by the year 2021.

“Just because you’ve moved to virtualisation, if you haven’t changed the operating model, automated and made things simpler, it’s still chaos,” says Kelly Ahuja, CEO of Versa Networks.

Vonage, a cloud communications provider, is expanding its contact centre footprint using its cloud-native unified communications platform Vonage Business Cloud (VBC).

Epsilon has struck a partnership with the internet exchange division of Japanese technology giant SoftBank to offer on-demand connectivity across the Asian country.

RingCentral, a global enterprise cloud communications and collaboration provider, has launched a new software-defined wide-area network (SD-WAN) certified partners program.

Russian industrial group Sistema has sold all its remaining shares in Reliance Communications of India, only weeks after being poised to buy the whole company.

EdgeConneX is set to offer dedicated and private access to Oracle Cloud through Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) FastConnect from their Edge Data Centres (EDCs).

Australian carrier MNF has spent $1.5 million on Singapore’s SuperInternet as the first part of a planned expansion into south-east Asia.

Vocus Communications, the Australian operator, has won a A$136.6 million contract from the Australian government to build its new international subsea cable.

Challenged fixed and mobile carrier Altice Europe is raising €2.5 billion in two separate deals to sell part of its mobile tower interests.

AT&T will launch NarrowBand Internet of Things (NB-IoT) to complement its existing Long Term Evolution for Machines (LTE-M) network in the US and Mexico by 2019.

Work on building Ireland’s €1.1 billion wholesale national broadband network is expected to start in September.

365 Data Centers has announced the appointment of Tony Franchi as senior vice president of sales and marketing, replacing Steve Weaver on 31 July.

Ericsson has apologised for an 18 hour outage that affected Telstra’s wholesale operations, including ALDIMobile, Woolworths Mobile and Belong.

Telstra has unveiled a number of new strategies as part of its Telstra22 plan, including its plan for 5G and creation of a new infrastructure business unit.

Colt Technology Services has launched its North American network, connecting multinational enterprise and financial companies to Europe and Asia.

Danish operator TDC has appointed former Sony Ericsson CEO Bert Nordberg to be chairman.

Ethiopia’s new prime minister is to split Ethio Telecom into two separate companies to stimulate competition – and the country will sell 30-40% to outside investors.

Telefónica as a group is focussed on innovation, Juan Carlos Bernal, the CEO of the international wholesale business unit, tells James Pearce. It is on a journey to become a ‘digital wholesale carrier’

The Federal Telecommunications Institute of Mexico (IFT) is launching an investigation into the report of illicit activities in the Mexican telecoms market.

QMC Telecom has struck a R$150MM (£30m) loan and credit facility which it will invest in tower infrastructure

Mexico’s telecoms market is open for outside investment. That was the key message delivered by the Mexican Undersecretary of Communications Edgar Olivera Jiménez during his keynote at this year’s Mexico Connect conference.

The Finnish government and business supporters are expected to give their backing for a subsea cable project that will link Europe to Japan and China across the Arctic Ocean.

Flexenclosure has completed constructing a data centre for CenturyLink in Ecuador.

Epsilon now offers on-demand access to cloud connectivity using Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute in Singapore.

The US Senate has voted 85 to 10 to reinstate the ban on US companies supplying ZTE with hardware and software.

Global Cloud Xchange (GCX) has confirmed its India landing and the completion of IDC-5, its new Indian data centre, all in preparation for its Eagle subsea cable network.

Telia Carrier has recently launched points of presence in Mexico, Serbia and Rome. CEO Steffan Göjeryd talks the move into Mexico and what is next for the carrier

Windstream Wholesale is expanding its fibre transport network at NJFX’s Tier 3 carrier-neutral colocation campus at the cable landing station in Wall, NJ.

Mexico’s Red Compartida shared wholesale 4G network has connected its first carrier customers.

IRIDEOS, the Italian ICT business and public administration provider, has acquired Enter, the Italian network and cloud services provider.

Equinix has announced the Vocus-owned Australia Singapore Cable (ASC) will be accessible in its International Business ExchangeTM (IBX) data centres in Singapore and across six metros in Australia.

Flexential has launched FlexAnywhere a software-defined network fabric that offers high capacity, low latency connectivity from the data centre and cloud, to the edge.

International Telecoms Week (ITW), the leading annual meeting for the global wholesale telecoms industry, has confirmed the event taking place in Atlanta next year will be held on 23-26 June.

Two months after the US issued a denial order on ZTE and more than a week after it agreed a settlement, the company’s future is still unclear.

The National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) has permitted the winners of the upcoming spectrum auction to swap with other operators in 1800MHz slots.

TPG Telecom subsidiary AAPT and Vocus’s M2 are seeking $1.8 million in debt from Buzz Telco, the Australian retail service provider that closed its doors earlier this year.

Superloop has purchased the fibre broadband customer base from the internet service provider SkyMesh, part of the NBN network and a subsidiary of Bigblu Broadband.

Ericsson and Intel, in partnership with China Mobile, have successfully demonstrated the first 3GPP-compliant, multi-vendor standalone (SA) 5G new radio (NR) call.

Digital Realty has opened the doors to its third data centre in Toronto to support the growing data centre and colocation requirements in North America.

EdgeConneX and Renovo, a mobility software company, are collaborating on core software and hardware infrastructure to enable automated vehicles-as-a-service at scale.

Rackspace, the data centre and web hosting provider, has launched a colocation service allowing customers to deploy their own hardware in Rackspace data centres.

Columbus Business Solutions now operates as C&W Business in the Dominican Republic enabling the delivery of the full suite of C&W B2B services.

VMware launches its vCloud NFV-OpenStack Edition 3.0, the next-gen network functions virtualisation (NFV) platform, for communications service providers (CSPs).

Juniper Networks to launch its MX Series 5G Universal Routing Platform - as well as other software innovations to unlock service-creation opportunities.

TIM’s employees have agreed a 10% reduction in working hours and redundancies for 4,500 of them.

President Donald Trump’s deal with Chinese vendor ZTE could be blocked by his Republican allies in the US Senate – as well as their Democrat opponents.

Gruppo per l'Armonizzazione delle Reti della Ricerca (GARR), Italy's national research and education network, has deployed Infinera’s Cloud Xpress 2 to meet the growing bandwidth demands of science computing applications.

Belgacom International Carrier Services (BICS) has selected Netcracker’s service, network and infrastructure solution.

NTT Communications (NTT Com) is launching its managed Microsoft Azure Stack solution in Hong Kong.

Infomart Data Centers has completed the first of six new data centre suites at its Ashburn facility in Virginia.

Former Ericsson CEO Hans Vestberg will take over from Lowell McAdam as group CEO of Verizon at the beginning of August.

Pan-Caribbean operator Digicel has launched its 4G LTE network on the island of Anguilla to meet the growing demands for improved wireless and broadband connectivity.

Italian regulator AGCom is starting a public consultation on TIM’s network separation plan – but TIM’s CEO Amos Genish is worried about falling wholesale prices.

Prysmian Group is relaunching as a new organisation and beginning the integration of General Cable since closing its $3 billion acquisition.

Sprint has enhanced its South African network capabilities after opening a Johannesburg point of presence (PoP), further extending its global wireline backbone network.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has granted SES permission to expand its US O3b fleet in the Medium Earth Orbit (MEO).

BT has announced that CEO Gavin Patterson will leave later in the year and says it is looking for a successor.

SEA Cable Exchange-1 (SEAX-1) linking Tanah Merah in Singapore to both Batam, Indonesia and Mersing, Malaysia, is now ready for service.

TierPoint has completed the renewal of key industry certifications and its SSAE 18 annual compliance audits.

Bezeq Israel Telecom has been notified by the Ministry of Communications that as of 1 August 2018 it is required to make its telephony infrastructure available for leasing.

Telcotech, a leading Cambodian telecoms company, and LXT Networks, a wholesale specialist, are partnering together to offer a combined connectivity solution in Asia.

Vodafone has moved to a cloud packet core network for its mobile network around Bangalore, India.

Bandwidth prices have continued to plummet, with lease prices on selected routes declining an average of 26% between 2016 and 2017, according to figures from TeleGeography.

SEACOM has completed its 1.5Tbps upgrade of its subsea cable system linking the Southern Eastern African coastline to Europe.

Chinese equipment maker ZTE is poised to come back from the dead after reportedly agreeing a $1 billion fine and belatedly reprimanding 35 employees.

Telia Carrier has extended its network in Italy with a new point of presence (PoP) in Rome.

Bahrain incumbent operator Batelco appears to have withdrawn mention of its first wholesale product – in mobile backhaul – since it created a functionally separate unit.

Seattle-based Sabey Data Centers is set to further enhance capacity at its Ashburn data centre campus, Intergate.Ashburn.

IXcellerate has opened what it claims is the largest data hall in Russia as part of the third expansion of its Moscow data centre campus.

ROOT Data Center has unveiled plans to boost its Montreal facility by adding two new data halls with an additional 6MW of power capacity.

PacketFabric is expanding its Connectivity-as-a-Service (CaaS) platform to the Equinix LD6 International Business Exchange in London.

Orange has completed the construction of its national fibre network in Spain, using Huawei equipment to build what it claims is the largest capacity long distance transmission network in the world.

Pressure increased on BT’s CEO Gavin Patterson today following reports that leading shareholders are talking to the company’s new chair about replacing him.

The GSMA in partnership with Deutsche Telekom (DT) and Vodafone Group have completed the first international roaming trial in Europe using licensed narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) technology.

Sparkle has expanded its US network to a data centre on the US/Mexican border.

CEO Gareth Williams and most of his C-level team left Interoute yesterday as GTT completed its $2.3 billion takeover.

TE SubCom has announced that a contract is now in force for the company to construct the ICN2 submarine cable project for Interchange Limited, the Vanuatu-based consortium.

ExteNet Systems, a developer, owner and operator of distributed networks in the US, has entered into an agreement to acquire Hudson Fiber Network (HFN).

Intelsat has struck a partnership with the Ministry of Transport and Communications (MOTC) of Myanmar to deploy wireless communications infrastructure in the Asian country.

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The Comision Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC) has completed its consultation of Telefónica's new wholesale service called NEBA.

Indian operator Reliance Communications (RCom) has exited insolvency after agreeing to pay Ericsson only 55% of the $150 million it owed.

The European Commission (EC) has approved the proposed regulation on the Belgian wholesale broadband and broadcasting markets.

Telecom Egypt has negotiated a $200 million loan for working capital as well as investments.

The US Federal Communications Commission has agreed to provide additional funding to Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands in an effort to restore communications services lost during devastation caused by 2017’s hurricane season.

PCCW Global, the international operating division of Hong Kong’s HKT, has publicly launched Console Connect after the successful integration of the acquired platform onto its network.

Equinix, Digital Realty and NTT have maintained a strong lead in the colocation market, with the gap between them and others maintained by a recent spate of M&A activity, according to Synergy Research Group.

PAIX Data Centres and NSIA Technologies, the technology services provider, are to jointly develop carrier neutral data centres in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire and Dakar, Senegal.

Chirisa Investments, the Irish-based digital infrastructure investor, is acquiring a strategically located facility in Ashburn, Virginia.

Kao Data has expanded its high-speed network capabilities with its connection to the London Internet Exchange (LINX) through its partnership with Ai Networks.

Zayo has completed a coherent wavelength route from Marseille to Strasbourg via Milan.

Zimbabwe’s state-owned mobile operator NetOne is to expand its network in rural areas with the help of a $71 million loan from China.

Angola Cables has added additional peering points to its international locations in IX.BR São Paulo and Fortaleza, Equinix Ashburn and Miami (formerly NOTA) and NIIX and DE-CIX in New York.

Work has started on laying SAIL, Camtel’s subsea cable across the south Atlantic from Cameroon in west Africa to Brazil.

RETN is expanding its network in Amsterdam with the deployment of a new point of presence (PoP) in Datacenter.com’s AMS1 data centre facility.

Verizon has unveiled the findings of its latest survey that aims to explore why companies are rapidly deploying software-defined networking (SDN).

Hyperscale operators invested $27 billion in capital expenditure in the first quarter of 2018, an increase of more than 80% on 2017.

Egyptian International Submarine Cables Company (EISCC) has agreed to purchase Orascom Telecom Media and Technology’s (OTMT’s) shares of its subsidiary MENA subsea cable for $90 million.

MTN and Cisco have announced the availability of the Cisco Jasper Control Center for all companies on MTN’s network in South Africa.

The fate of ZTE, China’s second biggest telecoms equipment supplier, is being fought out between US President Donald Trump and leading senators on Capitol Hill.

Angola Cables enters into a reseller relationship with DE-CIX to offer connectivity and remote peering solutions to its customers, at DE-CIX hubs in North America and Europe.

the adoption of IoT is growing in popularity meaning bandwidth and subsea cable demands are increasing too, Stephen Scott, CEO of Deep Blue Cable says that his company provides the alternative needed to meet this demand

The new SACS cable from Angola to Brazil will be in service within weeks, António Nunes tells Alan Burkitt-Gray. But it’s more than just A to B: it will open up new routes between Asia and Africa to North and South America

Sabotage, cyber security and better regulation in the region, were some of the key topics of discussion from the 2018 Subsea Middle East Summit

As GlobeNet expands its subsea cable network into Argentina for the first time, Erick W Contag, GlobeNet’s executive chairman, talks to Capacity about the significance of the expansion and what’s next for the company.

Craige Sloots, director of marketing and sales at Southern Cross Cable Network, speaks to Capacity about the company’s NEXT project and the distinct regional differences of operating a subsea network in the Trans-Pacific region

Flexential has launched a new wholesale data centre offering aimed at enterprises, mobile carriers, as well as content and cloud providers.

Telia Carrier has installed its first point of presence in Serbia, giving customers in the region access to its global backbone.

Equinix leads Cloudscene’s Q1 2018 data centre operator leaderboard across North America, EMEA, Oceania and Asia.

Massive Networks, an enterprise-class data transport solution provider, has boosted its fibre footprint to additional business locations within the Boulder County areas of Colorado.

Telxius has partnered with Equinix to deliver next-generation subsea cable landing station architecture to support the MAREA and BRUSA subsea cable systems.

Three groups have been shortlisted as final bidders for Global Cloud Xchange (GCX), the international subsea network that also has enterprise and data centre operations in India.

Logix Fiber Networks has opened a new office in North Texas to keep pace with growing demand for fibre-optic services.

Vodafone Qatar obtained 911 million riyals ($250 million) in financing to help accelerate the operator’s fixed-line services rollout and 5G deployment across the country.

Subsea network Global Cloud Xchange (GCX) has said bankruptcy proceedings against Reliance Communications (RCom) have ‘no impact’ on its business operations.

RETN has announced two new points of presence in North America, in Toronto and Ashburn, Virginia.

Bell Canada’s all-fibre network is to reach 1.3 million homes and businesses in the Greater Toronto area, stretching to the US border, the company has announced.

Pressure is mounting on heavily indebted Reliance Communications and its Global Cloud Xchange subsidiary after India’s insolvency tribunal put professionals in place to run three units.

Interoute has been selected by a global social media networking company to provide over 4,000 kilometres of dark fibre in Europe.

Spirit Communications and Lumos Networks have expanded its Express Cloud Access service to North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia.

Italian carrier Retelit is talking to potential short-term acquisitions in its home market, and is also looking for ways to expand in Hong Kong and Singapore in the medium-term.

Avelacom is expanding its footprint in Warsaw by launching a new point of presence at the Atman Data Center colocation facility.

Philippines operator PLDT has turned down a proposal from rival Globe Telecom to share existing towers.

Danish incumbent TDC is looking for a new CEO after Pernille Erenbjerg said she would step down at the end of 2018.

Hurricane Electric has launched a new layer 2 latency tool which helps its partners determine the cost and latency between any two of its global points of presence (PoPs).

IXcellerate has completed the modernisation of its peering platform: Eurasia peering, which is based within the company’s data centre in Russia.

Network equipment company Coriant has appointed one of the partners in its private-equity owner as CEO.

The US Senate has issued a challenge to the country’s telecoms regulator by voting in favour of net neutrality.

France-IX has opened its third point of presence (PoP) in Interxion’s new MRS2 data centre, in Marseille.

BT’s last-mile subsidiary, Openreach, has launched a consultation on moving its services from analogue to all-IP.

FiberLight has launched a new cloud connect service, offering customers dedicated connectivity to cloud providers including the likes of Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, IBM, Oracle and Google Cloud.

Interxion has completed the first phase of its second data centre facility in Marseille, adding 700sqm of equip-able space to the site.

Africa and Middle East carrier CMC Networks has appointed Jatinder Sispal as its executive VP of global sales.

Caucasus Online has upgraded its 1,200km Black Sea subsea fibre network to carry up to 5Tbps by using 100Gbps transponders.

Google and NEC have doubled the performance of the transpacific Faster cable linking Taiwan to Oregon, and believe they can triple it.

Aqua Comms has launched a new automated customer portal, streamlining a number of customer process from billing to enquiries, to offer significant efficiencies.

The company that is buying FirstLight Fiber in the US and CityFibre in the UK has added a Spanish wholesale fibre company to its portfolio.

President Donald Trump appears to have stepped in to the trade war between Chinese telecoms vendor ZTE and the US Department of Commerce – on the side of ZTE.

IX Reach has announced its infrastructure upgrade to 200GE into The London Internet Exchange (LINX).

Liquid Telecom and China Telecom Global have agreed to a network collaboration that will see the two develop industry–leading solutions for Africa and Asia.

Equinix has announced a £29 million expansion of its London international business exchange data centre, scheduled to open later this year.

Revenue and profit of BT’s Global Services division and its Wholesale and Ventures divisions were both down sharply last year.

Epsilon has begun the phased deployment of 100G packet optical switched Ethernet technology across its global backbone network.

Interoute has launched new 100G routes between the UK and Europe that bypass the London area.

HGC Global Communications and A1 Telekom Austria have partnered on an IPX-peering agreement.

Interoute has been selected by Brenderup Group, manufacturer of trailers and load carrier systems, to host the company’s server environment.

EulaLink, the developer and holding company of EllaLink, has appointed Philippe Dumont as its new chief executive officer and has been elected to its board of directors.

HGC and Golden TMH Telecom Company (GTMH) are working together to deploy carrier-grade cloud services in Myanmar.

EdgeConneX has announced that Seaborn Networks has selected its Buenos Aires Edge Data Center (EDC) as the point of presence (PoP) in Argentina for Seaborn’s ARBR submarine cable.

The Westin Building Exchange (WBX) has completed the first phase of a new expansion of its Seattle-based carrier hotel / colocation facilities.

Liberty Global has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its operations in Germany, Hungary, Romania and the Czech Republic to Vodafone Group for $22.7 billion.

ZTE says it has shut down operations because of the action taken against it last month by the US.

Flexential has announced that the New Cross Pacific subsea cable is now live, delivering a fast, low-latency direct network connection between the US and Asia.

Global Cloud Xchange (GCX) and PrimeTel, the Cyprus-based telecommunications provider, have announced a 100Gbps upgrade to GCX’s Hawk subsea cable system branch into Cyprus.

The Monet subsea cable connecting Boca Raton, Florida to both Fortaleza and Santos, Brazil, is now completed and fully operational.

RETN is expanding its global network with an increased presence in Asia-Pacific and connecting Europe and North America to the region.

TE SubCom has announced the launch of its Ocean Control suite, a solution that enables automated control of terrestrial and undersea networks via an external controller.

Telxius has said its BRUSA subsea cable system, connecting Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Virginia Beach in the US, is on course to go live by mid-2018.

GlobeNet is to deploy a new 2,500 km submarine cable that will link Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo to Buenos Aires.

NTT Communications is expanding its Tier-1 global IP network with a new point of presence (PoP) in Manchester, UK, at Equinix’s MA4 Manchester IBX data centre.

Nuage Networks is partnering with Telefónica Spain to transform its data centre network infrastructure

Telstra has expanded its world-first ‘Always On’ service to provide more bandwidth options and lower latency on its Hong Kong to Singapore and Japan to Hong Kong subsea routes.

Angola Cables, will now offer its customers customised amounts of capacity with Ciena ’s GeoMesh Extreme Spectrum Sharing capability.

HGC and China Telecom are partnering together to build a network interconnection system via the Hong Kong- Zhuhai- Macau Bridge (HZM Bridge).

Orange International Carriers is enhancing its network connectivity and will now offer a direct connection between Marseille and Penmarch.

Interxion is about to go live with its second data centre facility in Marseille, with plans to add a third in motion, and Colt is already announced as a key partner. James Pearce spoke to Interxion’s Mike Hollands and Colt’s Andrew Edison about why companies are investing in Marseille

Bluebird Network, the midwest telecommunications company, has announced an expansion of its fibre-optic network.

TierPoint has entered into an agreement with Zayo Group, to offer Zayo’s CloudLink solutions.

Cleareon Fiber Networks has announced a new subsea cable system in the New York - New Jersey region.

Seaborn Networks has appointed David Zimmer as its new chief sales officer and Jim Olson as its new vice president of corporate development.

As one of the market leaders in cloud technology, Ian Massingham, chief EMEA evangelist at AWS, speaks to Natalie Bannerman about the trends driving cloud consumption and his thoughts on the future of infrastructure providers

EdgeConneX has announced multiple planned expansions at Edge Data Centers (EDCs) across North America.

GTT Communications, has announced its financial results for the quarter ended 31 March 2018.

Hawaiki Submarine Cable and TE SubCom have made the final splice of the $350m Hawaiki Submarine Cable, connecting Australia, New Zealand and Hawaii to the US mainland.

Rising Realty Partners (Rising) reports that it’s West 7 Center is experiencing increased demand from over-the-top (OTT) content providers and internet of things (IoT) developers.

BSO, the global network provider, has announced significant reinvestment into its business in order to meet its goal of delivering improved services to its global customers.

SoftBank has given Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure a lifeboat to jump into after T-Mobile US takes over Sprint next year.

Deutsche Telekom (DT) has installed its first 5G antennas in Berlin, ready to roll out nationwide 5G services.

Telia Carrier has unveiled plans to expand into Mexico, bringing its wholesale IP transit, Ethernet, IPX, and cloud connect services to regional operators.

XKL has unveiled that its optical transponders and amplifies will be used on TENET’s peering and transit link between London and Cape Town.

Symbio Networks, the IP voice communications provider, has launched a new wholesale voice network in New Zealand.

Kosc Telecom, the French connectivity as-a-service provider, has officially gone live with the launch of its dedicated fibre services exclusively for businesses.

Bharti Airtel will deploy a carrier digital platform enabling global carriers to do wholesale voice business with the company at the click of a button.

Verizon, Cisco and Juniper Networks are working together to use software-defined networking (SDN) to combine all of its service edge routers into a single platform.

Aqua Comms has appointed Chris Bayly and Brad Kneller to its executive leadership team.

Seaborn Networks has selected Xtera’s C+L band design for its subsea cable system running between Sa~o Paulo and Buenos Aires as it looks to meet the capacity demands for content providers in the area.

Telecoms operators are set to invest up to $36 billion in artificial intelligence software, hardware, and services annually by 2025, according to a report from Tractica.

Colt is supporting Google Cloud Partner Interconnect allowing its customers to connect to the Google Cloud platform from anywhere through its partners.

Logix Fiber Networks has further expanded its Texas fibre-optic footprint by installing about 17 miles of fibre in the Houston suburb of Stafford, Texas.

Inflect has appointed Jarrett Appleby as its strategic advisor, responsible for driving relationships with the internet infrastructure services industry both in the US and globally.

Globalstar, the telecoms satellite provider, will merge with FiberLight, the metro fibre provider, in a deal worth $1.65 billion.

Liquid Telecom has partnered with Serianu, the pan-African cybersecurity company, to improve cybersecurity standards and practices across the continent.

Banker Raffaele Mincione has failed in his attempt to get former Sparkle CEO Alessandro Talotta on to the board of rival fibre company Retelit.

Zenium, the European data centre solutions provider, has completed construction on its second data centre in Frankfurt.

NTT Communications, along with parent company NTT Corp and sister company NTT Data, and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) have launched a new cyber security tool for infrastructure control systems.

Middle Eastern satellite provider Yahsat has entered into an agreement that will see it buy a majority stake in rival Thuraya as it looks to boost its global footprint.

The Etisalat and CK Hutchison Groups have agreed to merge their mobile telecommunication operations in Sri Lanka.

New data from Synergy Research Group shows that cloud infrastructure services grew by 51% from Q1 of 2017 surpassing the growth rates of the last five quarters.

Alessandro Talotta has officially left TIM, hours before shareholders in rival carrier Retelit vote on whether to make him a director.

Huawei is facing similar sort of action over Iran from US authorities to that which is threatening the future of Chinese rival ZTE.

Cyxtera Technologies has launched its Cyxtera Extensible Data Center (CXD) platform, a software-defined data centre architecture that enables on-demand service provisioning.

Proximus has signed a fibre-to-the-business wholesale deal with Destiny, the cloud business services provider, in Belgium.

BICS and Italian telecoms operator Fastweb have announced a strategic partnership that will see them offer combined connectivity solutions offering enhanced capacity and customer service.

Globacom, the Nigerian telecommunications services provider, has unveiled its plans to build a new fibre-optic submarine cable in Nigeria.

Interoute's 72,000km fibre network has been selected to support the Vatican Communications Secretariat’s new online site.

Megaport is enhancing hybrid network connections to Google Cloud’s global network with its SDN capability.

Open Fiber and Retelit have signed a commercial agreement to develop ultra-broadband connectivity and services, extending the reach of their networks across Italy.

Equinix has strengthened its partnership with Google by announcing a new service that allows its partners to connect to the Google Cloud platform from anywhere.

ZenFi Networks and Cross River Fiber are merging to create a new infrastructure provider in the New York and New Jersey Metro areas.

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has unveiled that a new subsea cable linking the Solomon Islands and Papa New Guinea with Australia is set to go live by the end of 2019.

UK-based telecoms firm CityFibre is the subject of a £538 million takeover bid from a consortium of infrastructure funds backed by Goldman Sachs.

Elliott group, the activist shareholders in Telecom Italia (TIM), cannot put forward its own slate of directors until next month – at the company’s second shareholders’ meeting in 10 days.

Neutral tower provider Brazil Tower Company (BTC) has closed on $79 million of a $104 million long-term debt financing, which it plans to use to boost its tower portfolio.

Connexin, the UK-based fixed wireless company, has unveiled plans to build a £5 million data centre in Hull.

Mexico’s High Court has ruled in favour of Telmex, the fixed-line division of Carlos Slim’s America Movil, over its plan to charge for access to its network.

Coriant and InterNexa have successfully completed a field trial featuring disaggregated 100G and 200G transmission over third-party optical infrastructure.

Huawei and China Unicom have entered into a joint innovation agreement to collaborate on 5G network slicing.

Reports over the weekend suggest that a blockbuster deal that would see Vodafone buy Liberty Global’s German and eastern European cable networks is imminent.

Josh Snowhorn, vice president and general manager of interconnection at CyrusOne, has resigned to join new company EdgeMicro.

MainOne has received a C1B licence allowing it to expand national and international connectivity services in Côte D’Ivoire.

The $350 million Hawaiki subsea cable has made its final landing in American Samoa, in partnership with America Samoa Telecommunications Authority (ASTCA).

RagingWire Data Centers, part of the NTT Communications group, has added Megaport’s global SDN to its Cloud Connect portfolio of solution partners.

Equinix becomes Australian market leader with 15 IBX data centres nationwide after closing A$1.035 billion Metronode deal.

Swedish telecoms equipment vendor Ericsson’s sales are down 25% quarter-on-quarter, and 9% year-on-year.

Algeria is set to be connected to two new submarine cables by the end of 2018 linking Algeria to the US and Spain.

Vodacom, the South African Vodafone subsidiary, has become the first African mobile network to exceed 80% population coverage on 4G.

ZTE has said that it might take legal action against the US authorities that have banned it from using US hardware and software.

Africa Data Centres, part of pan-African group Liquid Telecom, has expanded facilities at its flagship East Africa Data Centre (EADC) in Nairobi, Kenya.

Evolve IP, the cloud strategy company, is using Oracle Communications to upgrade its European network infrastructure and deliver new services.

Entel, the Chilean operator, has confirmed its plans to extend its fibre-optic connectivity to all 339 municipal capitals by the year 2022.

An increasing number of service providers are turning to Cisco’s Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) the software defined networking (SDN) solution, says the company.

Siemens has extended its contract with Orange Business Services to launch its global Siemens Digitalisation Network (SDN), built on SD-WAN infrastructure.

The Eastern Corridor subsea cable system in Ghana has begun its final phase of development and will be followed by 165km extension linking Accra to Ho.

Hurricane Electric, the world’s largest IPv6-native internet backbone and colocation provider, has announced WTG, a large telecom, internet, wireless and cloud master agents, has joined its channel partner programme.

Tata Communications and Dreamtime Technologies (DTTech) are partnering together to build a cloud-based virtual mobile network to serve African mobile and internet of things (IoT) providers.

CIM Group in partnership with fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty (1547) have begun construction of its data centre campus in San Francisco.

Aqua Comms, the submarine cable operator, has appointed APTelecom as its international sales partner as it develops new client markets in Asia and the US.

Akamai Technologies has made significant enhancements designed to improve website, app, and network security without compromising the performance of digital applications.

It is now illegal for US technology companies such as Cisco, Dell, Intel, Microsoft, Oracle, Qualcomm and Symantec to trade with ZTE after a US government ruling.

Orange Jordan is set to roll out advanced 4G+ services in different areas in the south governorates, and the launch of revamped home broadband offers.

Telia Carrier has deployed a new 100G backbone point of presence (PoP) in DigiPlex’s data centre north of Stockholm in Sweden.

Keppel Data Centres has partnered with DE-CIX, which will see Keppel DC Frankfurt 1 (KDC FRA 1) offering DE-CIX premium interconnection services such as peering and dedicated cloud connections.

DNA and Cisco Jasper have partnered together to introduce a new connectivity IoT service that will create global IoT ecosystem opportunities for Finnish companies.

KPN, the Dutch telecoms company, has said that the government needs to release the 3.5GHz spectrum required for 5G services.

Zayo Group will expand its European data centre network by establishing a zColo facility, the company’s first data centre in the London metro area.

PLDT Enterprises is partnering with Zenlayer to offer software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) technologies to its customers in the region.

O2 and Arqiva, the UK communications infrastructure company, are partnering to deploy up to 300 small cells in London.

The former CEO of Alaska fibre company Quintillion has been charged with $250 million fraud by pretending it had wholesale contracts worth $1 billion.

Nokia, Telia and Intel have successfully carried out an industrial trial using 5G to improve the time sensitive applications and enhance productions in manufacturing.

Sabey Data Centers is partnering with Telia Carrier to leverage its 100G-enabled IP backbone to provide scalable capacity and connectivity to the Seattle metro area.

Telekomunikasi Indonesia International, a subsidiary of PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia International, has just launched a data centre in Hong Kong.

Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) hosting provider 3W Infra has added the Asteroid Internet Exchange Point (IXP) to its ecosystem of network infrastructure providers as part of a cooperation agreement.

AT&T and Crown Castle have entered into a new agreement to expand their existing leasing deal for wireless network infrastructure.

OTEGLOBE has recently announced a 15% increase in EBITDA as part of its 2017 financial results, COO George Nikoloudis explains to Capacity how the carrier has reached €333.5 million in revenues and 2.9 billion total traffic billed minutes.

The Italian telecoms and media regulator has won a significant victory in its battle with Vivendi by forcing the French media group to offload shares in Mediaset.

Coriant has collaborated with the MEF to develop two new specifications that advance the orchestration of MEF 3.0 connectivity services across various technologies.

CIM Group and fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty (1547) have acquired 340 Progress Circle in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

Atlantic Metro has partnered with PacketLight Networks to upgrade its existing dense division wavelength multiplexing (DWDM) network routes to 200G capacity.

Colt Technology Services has announced its second point of presence in Interxion’s Marseille campus.

FiberLight, the fibre connectivity solutions provider, has appointed Mike Kopp as its new vice president of channel.

Kazakhstan’s Transtelecom has launched a new terrestrial network from the Chinese border towards Europe.

Russian operator Rostelecom is to upgrade its transcontinental Transit Europe-Asia (TEA) Cable System linking Europe with China and Japan.

Imperva, the US-based cyber security company, has doubled its presence in Russia at IXcellerate’s Moscow One data centre.

Nestlé, the food and beverages company, is to outsource its business operations in Russia to IXcellerate, Russia’s leading international data centre campus.

Tele2 Russia has commissioned a LTE network in Orenburg region of Russia, expanding its existing 4G services in the country.

Liquid Telecom has named Reshaad Sha as CEO of Liquid Telecom South Africa, effective as of 1 June 2018.

Xavier Niel’s personal investment company has officially taken control of Ireland’s incumbent operator Eir.

Viasat, the global satellite company, will now offer a satellite-enabled Wifi hotspot service called Community Wifi to most of Mexico.

Russian industrial group Sistema appears to be losing interest in the international subsea cables business of Mumbai-based Reliance Communications.

NTT Communications has partnered with global technology solutions and services provider Dimension Data to bring together their cloud infrastructure-as-a-service capabilities.

Ekinops, a provider of optical transport solutions, is deploying its PM 200FRS02 FlexRate line module in a greenfield network built by Epsilon.

Telia Company’s group CEO Johan Dennelind has taken over running the Swedish operation following the resignation of Hélène Barnekow.

Temasek, the Singapore-based investment company, has invested a reported $244.5 million in shares to become the top shareholder of CenturyLink.

Microsoft says that it is investing approximately $5 billion in the Internet of Things (IoT) over the next four years.

Zayo Group has added another data centre to its portfolio with the acquisition of a 62,000 total sq ft facility in McLean, Virginia.

The business fibre gap in the US has dropped below 50% for the first time with more buildings lit with fibre in 2017 than in any prior year.

Datacenter.com, the European colocation data centre provider, has added Cogent Communications to its portfolio of carrier networks in Amsterdam.

The head of Australia’s wholesale broadband network, NBN, has said he will step down from the role by the end of 2018.

Eletronet, Brazil’s national service provider, has chosen Seaborn Network’s Seabras-1 submarine cable system to offer Tier 1 Dedicated Internet Access (DIA) in Brazil.

Alessandro Talotta has left Sparkle, where he had been chairman and CEO for more than three years, following his nomination as a director of rival Italian carrier Retelit.

365 Data Centers has named Robert Allison as its new director of business development based in the company’s Boca Raton and Fort Lauderdale, Florida offices.

Equinix has appointed Brenden Rawle, the former principal solution architect at Equinix EMEA, as its new director of interconnection in EMEA.

Juniper Networks has unveiled a number of enhancements to its unified cybersecurity platform enabling its customers to run their businesses across various locations and clouds.

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) has partnered with Ticon, a developer and provider of industrial properties in Thailand.

Telecoms and pay-TV services are expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 2.2% between 2017 and 2022, says GlobalData.

Construction of a 9,500km subsea cable linking Japan to Australia via Guam and backed by the likes of Google has begun.

Openreach has launched its high-bandwidth managed service that allows communications providers (CPs) to operate private data connections using virtual dark fibre.

India’s data usage grew five times over the last year, with its networks carrying an average of 2.1 exabytes of data per month.

Consolidation in the Indian telecoms industry went up more than fivefold last year, largely thanks to the impact of Reliance Jio’s entry to the market in 2016.

Vodafone has completed the sale of its Indian tower unit to ATC Telecom Infrastructure Private Limited (ATC) in a deal worth INR 38.5 billion (€478 million).

Digital Realty has achieved five nines of uptime for the 11th consecutive year, surpassing 99.999% availability throughout 2017.

Sparkle says it is expanding its European backbone with a new point of presence (PoP) in Rome, Italy.

Paris-based systems and infrastructure integrator Interdata has selected Zayo Group as the provider of its dark fibre infrastructure in France, adding around 50km of new fibre to its existing network.

Windstream Holdings has completed its $37.5 million acquisition of Mass Communications, the New York-based telecommunications network management company, in an all cash deal.

Interxion has launched direct access to IBM Cloud Services at its data centres across Europe through its cloud interconnection platform.

Orange International Carriers has strengthened its US positioning by converting two of its IP PoPs into IPX points to improve its quality of service.

Vocus Communications has begun laying the Australia-Singapore Cable which will link Perth to Singapore via Jakarta and Christmas Island.

Mosaic NetworX, the SD-WAN as-a-service company, is partnering with Connected2Fiber to utilise its software as-a-service (SaaS) platform.

REANNZ, New Zealand’s research and education network operator, has picked Chorus and Vodafone to provide fibre backhaul services to connect its backbone network to the Hawaiki Cable landing station at Mangawhai Heads in Northland.

Hurricane Electric has chosen Aqua Comms for new high-speed connectivity between New York and Dublin.

The former Telecom Italia has officially started work on separating out its wholesale access network into a new legal entity.

The Chilean government has awarded Huawei Marine the contract to build a subsea cable connecting with the country’s far south.

Federal Communications Commission chairman Ajit Pai has unveiled new rules that would bar US telecoms companies from buying equipment using a government subsidy program if the kit is bought from a “company that poses a national security threat”.

Amdocs has announced that it is working with Microsoft to implement its Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform.

Libyan Post, Telecommunication and information technology Company (LPTIC), the state-owned Libyan telco, has announced a $1.75 billion plan to reunify telecoms in the country.

Russian industrial group Sistema is believed to be the leading bidder for India’s Reliance Communications and its international subsea cable business.

TE Subcom, a provider of undersea communications technology, has announced that it will begin construction on its LA cable landing station in five days’ time.

Moroccan companies backed by Etisalat and Zain are fighting a regulatory battle in Morocco over wholesale access to infrastructure.

Asian carrier Superloop has hired former Telstra, Airtel and T-Mobile US executive Drew Kelton as CEO, in place of Bevan Slattery, who becomes executive director.

Orange Business has come in at first place in the 2017 global provider Ethernet leaderboard by Vertical Systems Group.

Battle has started over the future of Telecom Italia between two of its biggest shareholders.

NEC Corporation will provision a 10 Gigabit Ethernet Passive Optical Network (10G-EPON) system to support KDDI Corporation's fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) service.

Telstra has expanded its business in Europe with the opening of a new office in Paris that will serve as Telstra’s hub for Continental Europe.

Successful trials of blockchain for wholesale settlement by two leading companies should help all carriers, says CMO

The former Orange Switzerland – now called Salt Mobile – is offering 10Gbps fixed-line fibre services in association with a wholesale carrier.

India’s Reliance Communications has come a step closer to selling off its mobile business to rival operator Reliance Jio following a bondholders’ vote.

iBasis has entered into a multi-service agreement with LG Uplus, the South Korean operator, to connect is IPX network for signaling and data connectivity enabling LTE roaming services.

CenturyLink and Spectrum Enterprise have come top of the 2017 US incumbent carrier Ethernet and the 2017 US cable MSO Ethernet leaderboards respectively.

One of London’s biggest boroughs has signed a pair of deals to bring gigabit-speed fibre to the homes of most of its 290,000 residents.

The Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Cuba SA (ETECSA), Cuba’s national telecommunications operator, has partnered with SES Networks for satellite services to enhance its connectivity.

Globenet’s data centre in Barranquilla, Columbia has been awarded the International Computer Room Experts Association (ICREA) Green Seal certification for sustainability.

Grupo Gtd, the Chilean telecoms operator, has acquired a data centre in Santiago de Chile owned by department store chain Falabella.

South East Asia and Indian Ocean Cable Maintenance Agreement (SEAIOCMA) has extended its cable maintenance agreement with Global Marine Group for another four years.

Kosc Télécom has confirmed that its B2B wholesale fibre offering, Fibre Professionnelle, will start taking orders from 9 April 2018.

Interoute has been recognised with the highest use case score for a high-performance network as part of Gartner’s March 2018 Critical Capabilities for Network Services Pan –European report.

The US telecoms regulator has asked for applications for a rural broadband auction – but has given prospective applicants only 11 days to submit proposals.

Eletronet, Brazil’s national service provider, has chosen Telia Carrier’s global fibre backbone to provide dedicated internet access to its Brazilian customers.

The Argentine Internet Chamber - Cabase is proposing the development of an Internet Exchange Point (IXP) network by interconnecting its current IXP’s in Chile, Brazil, Paraguay, Peru and Bolivia.

CenturyLink has recently activated its fibre optic route linking Colombia in the city of Cali and Quito in Ecuador.

Connexin Limited, the fixed wireless company, has pulled out of the UK 5G spectrum auction just days before it is due to take place.

The US government’s trial against AT&T and Time Warner to attempt to stop their $85 billion merger is due to start in New York today.

iBasis has successfully migrated its GRX and LTE data services enabling America Movil’s Central American operators, under the Claro brand, to enhance its data roaming services using iBasis’ IPX.

Xtera founder and CSO Robert Richardson and CTO Tony Frisch talk the company's latest innovations and the condition of the industry from the perspective of a supplier

The creator of the Three group of mobile operators and the wholesale carrier formerly called Hutchison Global Communications is to retire at 89.

Etisalat has deployed Netcracker’s network-as-a-service (NaaS) solution as part of its residential virtual customer premises equipment (vCPE) rollout – the first in the Middle East and Africa.

A global webscale customer has selected Zayo for dark fibre services on its 600-route mile Reno to Umatilla route, which is currently under development.

UK cities could benefit from up to £6 billion of savings from 5G implementation, according to a report from O2, with the UK government announcing additional investments in telecoms infrastructure.

Vivendi, the biggest shareholder in TIM, has condemned a move by an activist investor to replace six directors with its own nominees.

Niagara Regional Broadband Network (NRBN) has established a new point of presence (PoP) in 365 Data Centers’ Buffalo location.

Datacom is set to deliver data centre services from AirTrunk’s new hyperscale facilities in Sydney and Melbourne.

Verizon and Colt have successfully demonstrated two-way inter-carrier software-defined network (SDN) orchestration during a live trial demonstration in London.

BT has appointed a chief strategy and transformation officer as part of a series of changes in top management by CEO Gavin Patterson.

Singtel is building a new submarine cable system linking Singapore, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Taiwan, mainland China, Korea and Japan.

Juniper Networks has unveiled its new strategy for simplifying service delivery in complex metro networks.

Xtera, a provider of innovative subsea fibre-optic technology, has claimed the successful demonstration of transmitting 120Tbps over a single repeatered fibre.

LeoSat Enterprises has signed a strategic agreement with Phasor to provide enterprise network markets with ultra-high throughput, low-latency network infrastructure.

Equinix announced the launch of SmartKey, its global key management and encryption software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering that simplifies data protection across the cloud.

Telefónica Brasil has unveiled plans to spend £5.2 billion in capital expenditure over the next three years as it looks to boost fibre penetration in the country.

DataGryd, the Manhattan data centre specialists, has named Thomas Brown as its new president and chief executive officer.

mu Space is partnering with SES Networks and Hughes Network Systems to deploy satellite-based broadband services to rural communities in Thailand.

Telia and Coriant have successfully completed a live field trial of technology optimised for real-time optical performance awareness and dynamic provisioning of fibre-optic capacity.

Infinera has announced what it calls the first optical device to work at 2.4Tbps, promising improved performance for cloud and deep fibre networks.

Nokia has launched a new cloud-native enterprise session border controller (eSBC) that provides secure, ultra-high-quality IP voice and video services to its enterprise customers.

Coriant has launched a new coherent multiservice sled for its Coriant Groove G30 that enhances the capabilities of the network disaggregation platform.

Surveys have started for a new subsea cable that will improve southern Chile’s connections to the internet.

Cormac Whelan, CEO of Nokia UK & Ireland, opens up about Nokia's plan for 5G & IoT and explains how the UK and Ireland is a "microcosm of Nokia’s global strategy".

Nokia and Orange Middle East and Africa (MEA) are deploying a single radio access network and network management technology across seven African countries.

Kevin Coyne, a member of FiberLight’s founding team, has been promoted to its new chief operating officer.

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks hit its peak this month with the two biggest recorded attacks to date.

Telkom Kenya is planning a €75 million network expansion to boost mobile coverage and to improve its mobile money network.

Zeetta Networks and Ixia have partnered together to provide new network capabilities for network operators.

DE-CIX is to go live with its platform at its point of presence (PoP) at the 1025Connect Meet-Me Room in Long Island.

Belgian operator Proximus – the former Belgacom – has borrowed €400 million to fund further fibre in its residential and business networks.

datamena has revealed that OSN is to start trials of Microsoft Azure Expressroute in partnership with the du company, an announcement made at Capacity Middle East 2018.

Converged communication provider Turkcell Superonline has joined the NetIX exchange platform, the two firms announced at Capacity Middle East.

Hurricane Electric has expanded its network to Telehouse America’s New York Teleport data centre in Staten Island.

The board of directors of TIM – formerly Telecom Italia – has approved a plan to create a separate legal entity that will own its fixed network.

Ajit Pai, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), has proposed a $954 million plan to restore and expand communications networks in Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands.

Viavi Solutions is partnering with Microsemi, a provider of semiconductor solutions to develop flexible optical networking technologies for 5G.

Cataleya has announced the launch of its new wholesale business platform as a service (PaaS) which integrates switching, rating, routing and billing cloud solutions, enabling wholesalers to start operating within a matter of days.

Telefónica Business Solutions has included Microsoft Azure services to its cloud services portfolio.

Former Colt CEO Rakesh Bhasin is to become chairman of African and Middle East carrier CMC Networks.

Nokia has appointed Sanjay Goel as the new president of global services and as a member of the Nokia Group Leadership Team (GLT).

UAE’s du has today announced at Capacity Middle East 2018 that it has extended its existing partnership with Epsilon to offer end-to-end connectivity between the UAE and major data centres in the US, Europe and Asia.

Telstra is set to boost its Middle East business by announcing the expansion of its Programmable Network to a new point of presence (PoP) in Dubai.

Nokia is claiming that it will be able to push subsea fibre speeds up to 600Gbps with the release of a new optical chipset that gets close to the limits of physics.

Omantel Wholesale has struck a partnership with German internet exchange DE-CIX, becoming its first partner in the Gulf to provide direct access to seven DE-CIX Exchanges across Europe and the US.

Retelit has announced an expansion of its network at Capacity Middle East unveiling 160 Gbps of new capacity in Asia and in Europe.

BCE Nexxia, the wholly owned Bell Canada subsidiary, has expanded its network capabilities with the launch of a new point of presence (PoP) in London.

PCCW Global has agreed to build a new submarine cable for Mauritius Telecom linking the Indian Ocean islands of Rodrigues and Mauritius.

Etisalat says that it will partner with a consortium of technology leaders to create cloud telecom infrastructure platform to host emerging technologies and services

GTT president and CEO Rick Calder says that Interoute will be the company's last large-scale M&A for a while.

Zayo Group has completed its $127 million acquisition of Spread Networks whilst also announcing an extension of its fibre network in Texas.

BSO, the global network provider, has enhanced its low-latency route between Singapore (SGX) and Hong Kong (HKEX) Exchanges.

Grant Walker has stepped down as chairman of CMC Networks, just over a year after the largest private equity company in the world bought control.

UAE-based du has announced a partnership with Cisco to build a future-proof IP core network in order to meet rising demand for bandwidth.

The capital expenditure (capex) of hyperscale operators totalled $22 billion in Q4 of 2017, according to data from Synergy Research Group.

Etisalat and Idemia have partnered together to provide SIM provisioning that allows consumers to store multiple user profiles on a single device and switch between them remotely.

ZTE and MTN have entered into an agreement on the development of 5G network architectures in the Middle East & Africa (MEA).

Mumbai-IX, powered by DE-CIX, will make services available at STT’s carrier hotel in Mumbai (formerly known as TATA LVSB) facility, starting in March 2018.

A third AMS-IX India point of presence (PoP) has been launched in GPX’s Mumbai data centre.

Hurricane Electric has established a new point of presence (PoP) in Sitel’s Bratislava data centre in Slovakia.

du, the UAE-based telecommunications service provider, has chosen Affirmed Networks network functions virtualisation (NFV) narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) solution.

Africa’s Liquid Telecom has signed an agreement with Sudatel to build new fibre networks across Sudan.

The Satellite Applications Catapult has selected Juniper Networks to build a secure, end-to-end network infrastructure to support Juniper’s 5G testbed.

Coriant has teamed up with Affirmed Networks to expand the former’s 5G customer offerings.

Deutsche Telekom may be interested in bidding for BT when the embargo on buying or selling shares runs out in a year’s time.

GTT Communications has entered into a definitive purchase agreement to acquire Interoute, one of Europe’s largest independent fibre network operators, for $2.3 billion.

Ofcom, the UK regulator, has released a draft outline of its rules for full-fibre deployment in the UK.

Liberty Global has chosen Benu Networks’ IPv6 Dual-Stack (DS-Lite) solution to allow it to transition from IPv4 to IPv6.

CenturyLink has captured the number one spot on Vertical Systems Group’s latest leaderboard of US Ethernet market-leaders.

Work has started to survey a subsea cable route in the north of Canada that will link a number of communities in the Nunavik region.

GI Partners, the private investment firm, has acquired 492 River Road in Nutley, New Jersey.

Italy’s markets regulator is extends its enquiry into whether TIM has harmed rival carrier Open Fiber’s entry into wholesale markets.

Telefónica has announced separate deals with Orange in Spain and Vodafone in Germany to share fibre infrastructure.

Colt Technology Services is expanding its 100Gbps connectivity solutions in Japan to better serve the needs of its customers.

AT&T has failed in a court attempt to bring President Donald Trump into its $85 billion battle to buy the media company Time Warner.

Cobham Wireless launches its distributed antenna system network in Berlin, supporting a number of indoor and outdoor smart city and IoT applications.

The Uptime Institute has unveiled its new Hybrid Resiliency Assessment service, which is designed to reduce the risks associated with business service delivery for multiple data centres, co-location sites and the cloud.

The Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU) says that once properly managed, licensing the use of spectrum could generate millions of dollars for Caribbean Governments.

Phoenix Tower International (PTI) has completed its transaction with Digicel Antilles Francaises Guyane (Digicel) for the purchase of 215 wireless communication tower sites.

Sumicity, a Brazilian telecommunications services provider, is expanding coverage of its DWDM (Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing) networks in Southeast Brazil leveraging Padtec technologies.

FiberLight confirms completion of its Texas Connector, a fibre network that connects the western portion of the company’s network with its Dallas-Austin-San Antonio-Houston (DASH) fibre footprint.

Capacity speaks to TE SubCom about some of the biggest issues facing the submarine cable industry, how the industry is combating this and its thoughts on OTTs and cable landing stations.

ZTE announces that it has won a 70% share of the first stage of the access network modernisation project with Russian operator Rostelecom.

Carolan Lennon, the managing director of Eir’s wholesale operations in Ireland, is to become CEO of the group.

Mycom OSI has launched its next-gen, cloud native platform as part of its enhanced Experience Assurance and Analytics (EAA) suite of applications.

China Mobile's Research Institute, in partnership with ZTE, has successfully completed tests for single-carrier 400G optical transport networking (OTN).

Megaport has continued its expansion plans in Europe with a new partnership with Finnish service provider Cinia.

Telehouse America has struck a partnership with Extreme Networks to upgrade the New York International Internet Exchange (NYIIX) Centillion platform in order to meet demand for more 100G ports.

Wind Hellas is deploying its own fibre-optic network, enhancing its existing retail and wholesale services in several areas throughout Greece, amid €500 million plans.

Equinix has named a former Palo Alto Networks executive as the new head of its Europe, Middle East and Africa channel partner programme.

Xtera, a provider of subsea fibre optic solutions, has successfully completed its interoperability testing with Infinera.

Reliance Communications’ (RCom) shareholders have green-lit an asset monetisation plan that sees the company sell off spectrum, tower, fibre and telecom infrastructure.

Telefónica’s International Wholesale Services has deployed seven new Network Functions Hubs to boost adoption of virtualisation.

Angola Cable's CCO Artur Mendes talks to Capacity about the company’s South Atlantic Cable System (SACS), its data centre in Fortaleza, Brazil and becoming a Microsoft ExpressRoute partner.

Deutsche Telekom has set up an edge computing lab in the US, in collaboration with tower and fibre provider Crown Castle

MyTel and Amara Communications, the newest entrants to the Myanmar telecoms market, have announced their plans for the deployment of 4G.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has been endorsed by the Federal Communications Commission to build a satellite-based internet network.

Equinix has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Infomart Dallas, including its operations and tenants, from ASB Real Estate Investments, in an $800 million debt and cash transaction.

eStruxture Data Centers has acquired Québec-based data centre operator Kolotek from Gaz Métro Plus, further solidifying eStruxture’s leadership position in the Montreal market.

Globe Telecom has opened discussions with an unnamed company about plans to outsource the building of its cell towers.

Vodafone Netherlands has lost its appeal in the Dutch Corporate Appeals Court (CBb) against KPN’s €610 million acquisition of Reggefiber.

Inmarsat and Intellian have entered into an agreement to enhance Inmarsat’s FleetBroaband service over the next 10 years.

Pilot is leveraging Telia Carrier’s global IP backbone to deliver guaranteed broadband 200 times faster than traditional ISPs.

Transatel and Pure Cloud Solutions have partnered together to launch a fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) solution for MVNOs.

NTT Communications has released its financial results for the nine months ended 31 December 2017.

Oracle has unveiled plans to launch 12 new data centre regions, expanding its new enterprise cloud platform to Asia.

Liberty Latin America is to acquire an 80% stake in Cabletica, the Costa Rican cable operator, which has been valued at $250 million.

Italian wholesale provider Open Fiber has started a commercial trial of a 200Gbps connection between Rome and Florence as part of its Zion backbone network.

Millicom’sTigo El Salvador has signed an agreement to sell up to 800 wireless communications towers to a subsidiary of SBA Communications Corporation (SBA) for $145 million.

Viavi Solutions will provide hardware technologies to China Mobile to support the deployment of 5G services in China by the end of 2019.

Blue Danube Systems has launched its second generation 5G-ready Massive MIMO system called the BeamCraft 600 series.

Coriant and New H3C Group (HP Enterprise & Unigroup), a leader of ICT services in China, has entered into an agreement together to drive digital transformation in China.

BT-owned mobile operator EE is trying out a rural 4G network that will compete in speed with fibre.

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) would like to attract $100 billion of investment in the country’s communication sector by 2022, it has revealed amongst its National Telecom Policy 2018 proposals.

Sprint is to reinvest its market efforts with a portfolio of solutions for the federal and public market.

KDDI Group’s Telehouse has teamed up with Seattle-based Sabey Data Centers which will see respective businesses extend their data centre and connectivity ecosystem footprints.

Ethernity Networks, the provider of data processing technology, has appointed Rob O’Hara as its new vice president of worldwide sales.

Aamir Hussain, chief technology officer (CTO) of CenturyLink has been appointed to the board of directors at the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF).

Viettel, the Vietnamese mobile operator, has connected to iBasis’ IPX network to offer 3G and 4G roaming services.

Agility, the wholesale internet service provider, has become Avaya’s first wholesale partner in Ireland adding Avaya products and services to its existing portfolio.

China is reinforcing its claim to disputed islands in the South China Sea by telling the country’s three operators to build 4G networks.

GPX Global Systems has today announced the expansion of its presence in Mumbai with the addition of its Tier 4 16MW GPX Mumbai 2 facility.

Cisco's 7th annual Global Cloud Index (2016-2021) claims that data centre traffic will reach 95% by 2021, up 7% from 2016.

Telecom Argentina has pledged to invest $5 billion to boost infrastructure in Argentina following the loosening of local regulations.

Deutsche Telekom and satellite communications company Inmarsat have announced their joint European Aviation Network (EAN) is ready for service.

Telecom Egypt has signed a three-year transmission and infrastructure agreement with Vodafone Egypt, valued at more than EGP 2 billion ($133m).

Telecommunication Company of Iran (TCI) has entered into two agreements with Shatel and HiWeb, the local internet service providers, to share its networks with them

Nokia and China Unicom have partnered together to roll-out a cloud-native core network in seven Chinese provinces.

McAllen Data Center (MDC) has completed its purchase of a Verizon data centre in the city of El Paso, Texas.

Cloudscene has released its global data centre operator rankings for Q4 2017 and has listed the top 50 emerging colocation markets in 2018.

TE SubCom is to build a depot in Samoa as a maintenance centre to service 20 Pacific subsea cable systems.

Capacity talks with president of C&W Networks Paul Scott on the presence of OTTs in the subsea cable market, the death of the cable landing station and the company roadmap for 2018.

Verizon has been awarded $70.7 million in funding as part of the third phase of the New NY Broadband Program.

Root Data Center announces that GTT Communications has launched a point of presence in its MTL-R2, Montreal Data Center.

Skywire Networks, the New York-based Ethernet provider, says that it has significantly scaled its wholesale and channel partner activities.

Openreach has announced that it is accelerating its fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) build programme to enhance the UK’s digital infrastructure.

Africa Data Centres, part of the leading pan-African telecoms group Liquid Telecom, has launched newly-expanded carrier-grade data centres facilities in Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa.

Peter van Burgel has been appointed as new CEO of the world’s largest internet exchange AMS-IX with immediate effect.

Bundesnetzagentur (Federal Network Agency), Germany’s national telecoms regulator, has unveiled its draft proposal for its 5G spectrum auction.

Sparkle has struck a partnership with France-IX that will see the Italian carrier offer its tier-1 transit service Seabone to France-IX members.

Telia Carrier is working with Swedish hosting and data centre services company, GleSYS, to provide improved capacity and support its future growth plans.

Hurricane Electric has boosted its high-speed internet services in the north eastern United States by establishing a new point of presence (PoP) at the Maine Fiber Company (MFC).

Interoute is expanding its global footprint by launching new services in São Paulo, Brazil.

The National Telecommunications Commission has prevented incumbent telcos, PLDT and Globe Telecom, from buying out the Philippines third telco in the future.

Conterra is to acquire two Louisiana-based fibre network operators in a transaction announced on the first day of Metro Connect in Miami Beach.

If you’re a carrier, prepare to hear some home truths at Metro Connect in Miami this week – from Frank Rey of Microsoft, potentially one of your fastest growing customers.

DE-CIX has expanded its partnership with DNS recursive resolver firm Quad9 at its internet exchange facility in Frankfurt, Germany.

Mycom OSI and Red Hat are to develop a telco cloud assurance solution reducing system deployment time and operations by over 75%

The backers of Canadian company Crosslake Fibre are planning to announce two new non-repeatered subsea cable projects, one in North America and one to follow the Ireland-France project.

FiberLight is set to sell part of its Texas network to Logix Fiber Networks and use the money to expand in Virginia and overbuild other parts of its Texas operation.

Globalinx Data Centers has unveiled plans to launch a new, three-phased data centre campus in close proximity to Telxius’ cable landing station in Virginia Beach.

1547 Critical Systems Realty’s AlohaNap announced at PTC that it was expanding cabinet capacity at its Hawaii-based facility by nearly 70%.

Four O3b medium earth orbit (MEO) satellites will be placed in orbit nearly 8,000km from Earth, four times closer to the planet than geostationary satellites.

Deutsche Telekom (DT) is leading the charge with the deployment of NarrowBand IoT (NB-IoT) technology in Europe and North America.

The first cable connecting southern Africa to South America should reach the coast of Brazil in early February, according to Angola Cables.

Silknet, the fixed-line operator in the republic of Georgia, is to buy mobile operator Geocell from Telia and Turkcell for $153 million.

Unitas Global, the hybrid cloud solutions provider, is partnering with Connected2Fiber to implement The Connected World SaaS platform.

Switch Datacenters, the provider of tailor built data centres, has announces the launch of its wholesale data centre-as-a-service programme.

Russian internet exchange company MSK-IX has started a programme to build up its peering infrastructure and improve high-speed performance.

Telstra has partnered with Ericsson and Ciena to demonstrate speeds of up to 400Gbps using Telstra’s transmission network in Melbourne.

The London Internet Exchange (LINX), has partnered with Epsilon to provide service providers with access to the LINX NoVA Internet Exchange Point (IXP) in the Northern Virginia and Washington DC area.

Tampnet, the provider of data networks for the offshore community, has selected GTT as its connectivity partner.

Superloop has unveiled plans to fully integrate the INDIGO subsea cable - which will connect Australia, Singapore and Indonesia – into a number of its metropolitan fibre networks.

Xtera has been named supplier for Seaborn Network's ARBR submarine cable linking Argentina to Brazil.

Larry Schwartz, chairman & chief executive officer of Seaborn Networks, says that the company is platform player and therefore perfectly positioned to meet the needs of OTTs

Colt Technology Services has named former Level 3 SVP Andrew Edison as vice president - wholesale in order to accelerate partnerships and global networking solutions for the wholesale segment.

Digital Realty has announced that it will offer dedicated and private access to Oracle Cloud in 14 major metropolitan areas.

Colt Technology Services has unveiled plans to bolster its software-defined networking offering by expanding into both Hong Kong and Singapore.

PacketFabric announces the availability of PacketCOR, its cloud on-ramp product enabling direct connectivity to cloud products anywhere on PacketFabric’s private network.

Epsilon has announced that it is expanding its connectivity platform in the US by establishing new interconnect locations in New York and New Jersey.

XSite Modular, the design-builder of modular cable landing stations, has won the contract to build a cable landing station for the Hawaiki submarine cable, in Oahu, Hawaii.

Facebook and four carriers have become the main consortium members supporting a new 13,000km cable that will link Hong Kong to Hermosa Beach in California.

Sabey Data Centers has announced that it is partnering with Repeater Communications Group, on its Intergate.Manhattan Sabey’s 560ft tower in Lower Manhattan.

Zayo has spent $24.9 million buying Canadian fibre company Optic Zoo, which has 103 route miles in the Vancouver area.

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) has announced that its Singapore data centre facility is to become Vocus Communications' point of presence (PoP) in Singapore for its Australia Singapore Cable (ASC).

A1 Telekom Austria is the latest telecoms operator to join the Next Generation Enterprise Network Alliance (ngena), which looks at how to build a truly global SD-WAN.

Hurricane Electric has deployed Coriant Groove G30 Network Disaggregation Platform in a Data Center Interconnect (DCI) application.

PacketFabric has secured a $25 million investment in series B funding from lead investor NantCapital.

Different telecoms operators could share capacity on a single fibre serving an apartment block or even a single home, thanks to a development by Vodafone and Huawei.

The Oregon-to-Hawaii segment of the Hawaiki transpacific cable system has now been completed by TE Subcom, meaning the cable is on track to go fully live in June 2018.

Epsilon launches its global channel partner programme giving its managed service partners access to a suite of cloud-centric network services.

Apple unveils that it is going to invest a total of $30 billion in capital expenditure in the US over the next five years.

Verizon has expanded its Edgecast content network to France, Mexico and South Africa and has tripled network capacity.

Residents of the city of Milton Keynes in the English Midlands are to get direct gigabit fibre connections in a project by Vodafone and the independent carrier CityFibre.

GTT Communications has elected NBA basketball legend Julius Erving to its board of directors.

Informart Data Centers has appointed former director of Digital Realty Trust, Dan Ephraim as its new vice president of sales.

EdgeConneX has expanded its network into South America with the launch of its first Edge Data Centre in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

TE SubCom has been awarded the contract to build Google’s Curie subsea cable system, which will connect the US to Chile and includes a branching unit for future connectivity to Panama.

FirstLight, the fibre-optics infrastructure provider, announces that Finger Lakes Technologies Group (FLTG) has now rebranded under the FirstLight name.

CenturyLink has announced the completion of another metro fibre loop expansion along the US east coast, this time in Greenwich, Connecticut.

Pan-African telecommunications service provider, Internet Solutions, announces that Cloud Connect, its colocation connectivity solution, has been integrated into Microsoft’s Azure ExpressRoute network.

Google’s cloud division has unveiled its participation in three new subsea cables that will service five new regions as part of a $30 billion investment into its infrastructure.

Huawei Marine has started marine survey work for a new subsea cable that will link Pakistan with Kenya and Djibouti.

Tata Communications’ video delivery network (VDN) has been selected by streaming platform Ultracast to support it plans to expand its 360° video and virtual reality platforms.

MTN Uganda is in a dispute with its rivals to secure the renewal of its licence which expires this year, says The Independent.

Aqua Comms will market, sell capacity services and raw spectrum on its portion of the HAVFRUE cable system after its appointment as system operator and landing party.

International network service provider RETN has today announced the completion of its acquisition of OPTRON SIA, a fibre-based metro network service provider in Riga, Latvia.

Talia has purchased a Newtec Dialog platform to provide Ka-band High Throughput Satellite (HTS) services to Afghanistan and Iraq.

Vocus Group has announced an organisational restructure while will see it split the enterprise and wholesale divisions of its Australian arm into separate operating units.

Sparkle has announced a partnership with global video services provider Aldea Solutions to launch a new solution targeting media companies in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners has completed its acquisition of a majority stake in bandwidth infrastructure firm euNetworks.

The Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) has fined Safaricom, Airtel and Telekom Kenya a combined sum of $3 million (Sh 311 million) for failure to meet the quality of service standards for the 2015/2016 financial year.

59% of global revenues comes from just 20 Metro areas, according to findings by Synergy Research Group.

Data centre owner and operator T5 Data Centers signs second pre-lease at T5@Chicago facility.

The $23 billion merger of Vodafone India with Idea Cellular has taken a major step forward after India’s National Company Law Tribunal gave its approval to the deal.

Michael Wheeler, EVP of the NTT Communications Global IP Network at NTT America, spoke to Jason McGee-Abe to discuss how automation is the final piece of the puzzle for its DDoS Protection Services (DPS) offering

Hurricane Electric, the provider of the world’s largest IPv6-native Internet backbone, has deployed its third point of presence (PoP) in Amsterdam, located in Interxion’s AMS8 data centre.

Telenor has selected Nokia to replace and upgrade its optical network in Norway and Sweden, opening the door for future software-defined networking technology (SDN) upgrades.

Italian telecoms minister Carlo Calenda is calling for TIM to separate into two companies and says TIM is already talking to regulator about a split.

Telefónica and Huawei have successfully completed laboratory tests on Huawei's T-SDN (Transport Software-Defined Network) solution and have now moved onto the network development stage.

China Telecom’s American unit has partnered with technology services distributor Intelisys in order to expand its service offerings.

Mumbai-IX powered by DE-CIX has deployed a point of presence (PoP) in Netmagic's DC5 data centre facility expanding its footprint in the region.

TE SubCom, a supplier of submarine cable technology, has been chosen as the system supplier of the North Atlantic HAVFRUE submarine cable system.

RETN, the international service provider, has expanded its global footprint by deploying two new points of presence (PoPs) in Seoul, South Korea.

Eniig has signed a three-year contract with Cerillion to develop a new wholesale platform based on its Enterprise BSS/OSS suite.

Altice owner Patrick Drahi has reversed several years of transatlantic takeovers by deciding to separate out the US operation into a new company.

Interxion announces new expansion projects in seven cities across Europe in response to customer demand.

DE-CIX has established a strategic partnership with BCIX, a leading Berlin Internet exchange, which will see the two firms directly connected and able to offer products in locations in both Berlin and Frankfurt.

Norwegian fibre and data centre company Bulk Infrastructure has turned to Epsilon to provide access to cloud services around the world.

GTT Communications has continued its acquisition spree by agreeing a deal to buy Amsterdam-headquartered high-speed network connectivity provider Custom Connect for an undisclosed fee.

GDS has entered into a non-binding agreement with China Unicom, China Telecom and SDIC to jointly develop data centres in selected upcoming markets in China.

Millicom's Tigo unit, America Móvil’s Claro and Personal’s Nucleo were the mobile operator winners in Paraguay’s 700MHz spectrum auction, which raised around $84 million.

As the SEA-ME-WE 5 subsea cable hits its first anniversary, the consortium reflects on how its flexible approach has helped open up the telecommunications market

Across a range of cloud market segments, 2017 growth rates averaged 24% and annual revenues reached $180 billion, finds Synergy Research Group.

The Independent Networks Cooperative Association (INCA) has elected Vassilis Seferidis, CEO of Zeetta Networks, to its Board.

Malaysian wireless carrier Axiata Group is looking to offload its tower unit Edotco through an initial public offering, according to reports.

A private-equity investor you’ve probably never heard of now owns HGC. Alan Burkitt-Gray asks CEO Andrew Kwok about the changes and the opportunities this brings

CyrusOne’s definitive agreement to acquire hyperscale data centre provider Zenium Data Centers for $442 million provides first critical step in its European expansion strategy.

LOGIX Communications has closed its acquisition of Texas-based network provider Alpheus Communications from private equity owners The Gores Group and Scott Widham, creating one of the largest independent metro fibre providers in the US state.

PCCW Global has bought Console Connect. CEO Marc Halbfinger talks to James Pearce about the acquisition

The Samoa Submarine Cable Company (SSCC) and Alcatel Submarine Network (ASN) have completed the marine installation of the Tui-Samoa subsea cable system.

GlobeNet has set up a new internet interconnection point for Brazil at Fortaleza, the increasingly important landing point for cables to North America and Africa.

Saudi Telecom Company (STC) has started constructing what it says is “the largest network operations centre in MENA”, at the King Abdulaziz Telecom Complex in the Al-Mursalat district, Riyadh.

The total value of significant data centre-orientated M&A deals that closed in 2017 surged to $20 billion, almost doubling the figure from 2016, according to new data from Synergy Research Group.

Deutsche Telekom has made its second European acquisition in a few weeks by buying Liberty Global’s Austrian operation for €1.9 billion.

Xtera has launched legal action against both Nokia and NEC Corporation, claiming both firms and their subsidiaries have infringed on its patents.

Cloud and IoT-based DDoS attacks are unmatched in their scale, sophistication, and in the damage they cause. A new generation of multi-dimensional analytics and router silicon is being recruited to eradicate this threat.

A cable from China to Europe and new investments in Mumbai are among GCX’s plans to set it apart from the troubled Indian mobile business. Alan Burkitt-Gray interviews GCX CEO Bill Barney

Windstream Communications is set to acquire New York-based Mass Communications (MassComm) in an all-cash transaction, according to an FCC filing.

CenturyLink has continued to overhaul its management team by appointing two new senior executives, with both set to report to chief operating officer Jeff Storey.

China Mobile has announced plans to use Huawei’s CloudFabric solution in order to develop a software-defined networking data centre resource pool.