UK Prime Minister welcomes £90m Equinix LD7 project

19 November 2018 | Jason McGee-Abe

Prime Minister Theresa May today welcomed the announcement from Equinix that it is investing £90 million in a new flagship data centre, LD7, at its London Slough campus.

Permira purportedly seeking suitors for $1bn Teraco deal

15 November 2018 | Jason McGee-Abe

Private equity firm Permira is reportedly looking for buyers for Teraco Data Environments, four years after its management buyout of the data centre company.

OPIC gives $100m backing to Africell to boost Connect Africa initiative

14 November 2018 | Jason McGee-Abe

PICTURE: (Seated left to right) Worku Gachou, MD for Africa at OPIC, and Ian Paterson, Africell CIO. (Standing left to right) Frank Dunlevy, OPIC counselor to the President, and Steve Dowd, US Executive Director for AFDB

CenturyLink CTO Aamir Hussain to step down

07 November 2018 | Natalie Bannerman

Aamir Hussain, chief technology officer at CenturyLink, is rumoured to be stepping down from his role.

NTT Global Data Centers Preparatory Corporation to launch by year-end

06 November 2018 | Jason McGee-Abe

NTT Communications has announced today that it will establish the NTT Global Data Centers Preparatory Corporation to further strengthen data centre-related business within the group.

Impact Telecom names Patrick Reilly as vice president of carrier services

05 November 2018 | Natalie Bannerman

Impact Telecom, a full-service telecoms company, has appointed Patrick Reilly as its vice president of carrier services.

Verizon announces organisational restructure

05 November 2018 | James Pearce

Verizon Communications has announced a restructure of its operating units as it looks to seize on opportunities offered by new technologies such as 5G and the internet of things.

Axiata names Ghazzali Khalid as its new chairman

02 November 2018 | Natalie Bannerman

Axiata Group Berhad (Axiata) has appointed Ghazzali Sheikh Abdul Khalid, its interim chairman, as its new permanent chairman, effective immediately.

Bharti Airtel completes sale of African shares to six investors as Tanzania opposes IPO

02 November 2018 | James Pearce

Bharti Airtel has completed a pre-IPO issue of more than 25% of its stake in Airtel Africa to six investors, including the likes of Singtel and SoftBank Group.

Datavision and partners demo reference solutions for telco market

31 October 2018 | James Pearce

Datavision, a service integrator of SDN/NFV-centric orchestration solutions, has partnered with Enea, Fortinet and Kontron to demonstrate reference solutions for telco and enterprise uCPE use cases.

MEF releases LSO APIs for network automation

30 October 2018 | James Pearce

MEF has announced the availability of the technical specifications and software development kits for its lifecycle Service Orchestration Sonata API at the MEF18 event in LA.

Moving Towards Autonomous Driving Networks

30 October 2018 | Sponsored Content

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