Europe
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Norway-based Telenor is establishing a new cybersecurity company focused on the Nordic region.
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Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim has taken a 3.2% stake in BT Group, worth around £400 million.
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Veon plans to increase its investment to Ukraine’s digital infrastructure to US$1 billion from 2023-2027.
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KKR has secured EU antitrust approval for its acquisition of Telecom Italia’s (TIM) fixed-line network worth around US$24 billion.
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Orange has completed the merger between Orange Romania SA (ORA) and Orange Romania Communications (OROC) by integrating OROC into ORA.
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The story of how a tragedy in an ammunition storage depot indirectly led to the creation of a sustainable, naturally cooled data centre in a completely different city 60 years later.
Forthcoming events
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Pan-European carrier RETN has made three significant enhancements to its network infrastructure in Poland, which it hopes will improve internet connectivity across Central and Eastern Europe.
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GlobalNet has confirmed another expansion into Central Europe with the launch of a new point-of-presence (PoP) in Warsaw.
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Grid Telecom and Quadrivium are teaming up to create a new cable landing station (CLS) in Chania, on the northern coast of Crete.
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Samsung and O2 Telefónica have launched their first virtualised RAN (vRAN) and Open RAN commercial site in Germany.
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For the next Data Centre of the Month, Capacity looks at Datacenter Mutualisé Lorrain (DCML), a shared data centre built for a hospital, a university, and a regional government – and a successful example of ‘micro-colocation’.
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Nokia and Vodafone have successfully completed an end-to end Open RAN trial on Vodafone Italy’s live 5G standalone (SA) network.
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Future investments into Ukrainian telecoms infrastructure are expected to be both “heavy” and “indispensable” for the country, given the essential nature of Kyivstar’s services, a spokesperson for the company told Capacity.
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Telecom Italia (TIM) CEO Pietro Labriola is nearing a second term at the operator after a shareholder vote that is set to be held today.
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Turkey’s national regulator, the Information Technologies and Communication Authority (BTK) is reportedly planning to implement bandwidth restrictions on Elon Musk’s social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter).
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Telecom Italia would be left with US$7 billion in cash after repaying its debts if it sold its Brazilian unit and its domestic consumer business according to activity investor Merlyn Partners.
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Data centre specialist LCL will invest €30 million in a fifth data centre in Diegem, Belgium.
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The GSMA and leading European mobile operators confirm the launch of ‘Connecting Europe to 2030: A Mobile Industry Manifesto for Europe’.
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Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN) has been awarded the contract to implement the new Anel CAM subsea project in Portugal.
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For the second Data Centre of the Month, we head north to Iceland – and north again from Reykjavik to Akureyri, where atNorth opened its 12MW ICE03 facility in 2023.
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Phoenix Tower International (PTI) and Cellnex Telecom have reached an agreement by which PTI will acquire 100% of Cellnex’s business in Ireland for €971 million.
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AtlasEdge has completed the acquisition of a new data centre facility in Vienna, marking its entry into the Austrian market.
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French operator Bouygues Telecom has signed an exclusive agreement with La Poste group for 100% of its subsidiary La Poste Telecom, the largest mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) in the French market.
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Vodafone Turkey and Edgenex Datacentres by DAMAC are collaborating to establish a new data centre facility in Izmir Turkey.
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Microsoft is set to expand its AI and cloud infrastructure in Spain, with an investment of US$2.1 billion over the next two years.
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Vodafone confirms plans to build new Open Radio Access Network (RAN) sites in 20 cities across Romania.
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Comarch has been awarded one of the first permits to use dedicated 4 to 4.1GHz radio frequencies for private 5G networks in Poland.
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Veon and its subsidiary Kyivstar confirm the implementation of its US$600 million investment in rebuilding Ukraine, as first announced in June 2023.
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Exa Infrastructure has announced significant investments into its networks connecting Sicily to mainland Italy, including upgrades to the Janna cable system and the addition of a submarine route connecting Palermo to Genoa.
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The never-ending story of TIM selling its fixed network to KKR took yet another twist yesterday, as the Italian Government made a bid for 100% of TIM’s infrastructure and connectivity business, Sparkle.
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Historic England, the executive non-departmental public body of the British Government sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport has been asked to list a 70-year-old structure and equipment in Greenwich that enabled the first-ever transatlantic telephone calls.
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KKR’s massive bid to acquire Telecom Italia’s (TIM) fixed line network for as much as €22 billion has been cleared by the Italian Government, but unhappy shareholder Vivendi could still hold up proceedings.
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Orange has signed an agreement with the Romanian government to form a single, combined mobile operator.
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Romanian media outlet Ziarul Financiar, has reported that a merger between Orange and the former state controlled telecom company Telekom Romania has been given the green light by the Romanian Government.
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The Spanish government is set to take a 10% stake in Telefónica to counteract the large investment of stc in the company.
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The iliad Group has submitted a proposal to Vodafone Group for the merger of iliad’s and Vodafone’s Italian businesses with the creation of a new entity (NewCo).
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Veon subsidiary Kyivstar has started restoring voice services on its mobile network following a widespread cyber-attack on Tuesday.
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atNorth has confirmed plans to further expand its network footprint into Finland with a new mega site planned on a 21-hectare plot, in Kouvola.
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Union says that by 2026 Telefonica will reduce its workforce in Spain by 5100
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Bloomberg sources have said Spanish operators Orange and MasMovil will sell assets to Romanian operator Digi to push through their €18.7 billion merger.
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Telecom Italia’s (TIM) CEO Pietro Labriola is to propose to directors to seek further improvements of multi-billion-dollar bids for the company’s landline grid, source from Reuters say.
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RETN confirms the launch of its latest network connectivity route from Padua to Vienna in northern Italy.