Stockholm city fibre head moves on to tourist and business role

3h | Alan Burkitt-Gray

The CEO of Stokab, the city of Stockholm’s wholesale fibre network, is leaving.

RETN expands Asia footprint with PoPs in Taiwan and Tokyo

22 March 2019 | Natalie Bannerman

RETN, an International network service provider, is expanding its foorprint in Asia with the launch of new PoPs in Taiwan and Tokyo.

French bank takes 23% stake in South Africa’s Metro Fibre Networx

22 March 2019 | Alan Burkitt-Gray

A French development bank has taken a 23% stake in South African fibre company Metro Fibre Networx.

Deutsche Telekom/EWE €2bn fibre project to offer wholesale access to rivals

22 March 2019 | Alan Burkitt-Gray

Deutsche Telekom is to work with German electricity, gas and telecoms company EWE to build a €2bn wholesale fibre company in the north-west of the country.

Orange deploys two IP PoPs in Nigeria

22 March 2019 | Natalie Bannerman

Orange has launched two IP points of presence (PoPs) in Nigeria, located at data centres operated by Medallion on Victoria Island and Rack Centre in the Oregun district of Lagos.

[Whitepaper] Upgrading R&E Networks to Bolster Bandwidth, Operational Efficiency, and Information Security

21 March 2019 |

Research and Education (R&E) organizations are looking for new and better ways to provide network services to campus communities.

Openreach ‘won’t re-install copper’ after moving wholesale customers to fibre

21 March 2019 | Alan Burkitt-Gray

BT’s Openreach last-mile subsidiary says it doesn’t want to re-install copper connections to premises once it’s installed fibre.

Vodafone and CityFibre raise UK fibre targets to 1m homes

20 March 2019 | Alan Burkitt-Gray

Wholesale carrier CityFibre has upgraded the target of its UK fibre roll-out with Vodafone to one million homes.

CEB FiberNet picks ECI for Mauritius fibre-optic backbone network

19 March 2019 | Jason McGee-Abe

CEB FiberNet steps up wholesale game after awarding a contract to ECI to design and deploy an enhanced fibre-optic backbone network in Mauritius.

América Móvil to buy Nextel Brazil for $905m

19 March 2019 | Natalie Bannerman

NII Holdings has entered into an agreement to sell its 70% share of Nextel Brazil to América Móvil for $905 million.

Anil Ambani escapes jail threat but RCom future still in doubt

19 March 2019 | Alan Burkitt-Gray

The future of Reliance Communications (RCom) is unclear after the troubled group paid off its debt to Ericsson but called off its sale of assets to Reliance Jio.

Bulk Infrastructure breaks ground for Denmark data centre

19 March 2019 | Natalie Bannerman

Bulk Infrastructure has broken ground for its new scalable carrier neutral colocation data centre in Esbjerg, Denmark.