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Company veteran Charles Meyers has been appointed to the newly created position of president of strategy, services and innovation at Equinix.

Crown Castle, from two of its offerings, are selling $3.25 billion worth of common shares and $1.5 billion worth of convertible preferred stock in order to help finance the Lightower buyout.

Nine months on from announcing its bid to buy Time Warner, AT&T has reportedly begun talks with the US Justice Department over the $85.4 billion deal.

Vodafone’s 4G network in Qatar is back in operation after an outage that lasted more than a week.

The government of Guinea-Bissau has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the World Bank, Orange and MTN for a $47 million project to link the country to the African Coast to Europe (ACE) subsea cable.

Tata Communications has announced a drop in consolidated net profits in its financial results for Q1 that ended 30 June 2017.

Flavio Cattaneo has agreed compensation of €25 million in return for his resignation as CEO of TIM, despite the fact that many elements in the company did not want him to go.

Huawei Marine and Belize Telemedia Ltd (BTL) have met their two-month installation deadline on time and on budget, announcing the launch of BTL’s Strategic Evolution Underwater Link (SEUL).

French Polynesia’s OPT and Nokia’s Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN) have signed a turn-key agreement for the deployment of the NATITUA subsea cable system, which will have an ultimate design capacity of over 10Tbps.

Stockholm Internet eXchange (STHIX) has chosen Coriant’s Groove G30 Network Disaggregation platform to enhance its metro network to support the rapidly growing traffic demands of its end-user ISP customers and over 100 connected networks.

In a statement to Ars Techinca and The Verge, Verizon has admitted to capping traffic to all video content, in a move the company said was to “optimise the performance of video applications on our network”.

Australia’s National Broadband Network (NBN) has announced a supply agreement with ADTRAN that will see the latter supply software, hardware and services for NBN’s nationwide network roll-out.

The biggest shareholder in Telecom Italia wants to put Amos Genish, former CEO of Telefônica Brasil, in as managing director of the Italian operator, which trades as TIM.

With a number of global telecoms operators planning to switch off 2G networks in the near future, Vodafone has said it will not turn off its GSM network in Europe until 2025 at the earliest.

Vodafone CEO Vittorio Colao has slammed Reliance Jio claims that established operators in India have generated over $15 billion due to inflated prices.