Angola Cables trial Nokia’s PSE-3 on the SACS subsea cable

3h | Jason McGee-Abe

Nokia has announced that Angola Cables is trialling its Photonic Service Engine 3 (PSE-3) chipset for the first direct optical connection between the USA and Africa.

Aamir Hussain rejoins MEF amid appointment at Verizon Business

6h | Natalie Bannerman

Aamir Hussain has rejoined the MEF board of directors, a position he held in 2018 during his tenure at CenturyLink.

Annette Geuther named VP of new business development at Colt

16 January 2020 | Natalie Bannerman

Colt Technology Services has appointed Annette Geuther (pictured) as its vice president of new business development, effective as of 1 January 2020.

Telstra and Equinix partner on multicloud connectivity

16 January 2020 | Natalie Bannerman

Equinix and Telstra are collaborating to enhance Telstra’s integration with Platform Equinix to give its enterprise customers multicloud network connectivity to more than 170 service providers in 38 global markets.

Liberty Global adds to European executive leadership team

15 January 2020 | Natalie Bannerman

Liberty Global (NASDAQ: LBTYA, LBTYB and LBTYK) has announced the appointments of Severina Pascu as CFO and deputy CEO of Virgin Media, and Baptiest Coopmans as CEO of UPC Switzerland.

5 things to know for January 15: Satellite investment tops $5bn, CITC to licence MVNOs and virtual broadband to pass 500m

15 January 2020 | Natalie Bannerman

Capacity shares 5 key stories from around the world making headlines today!

Australia’s bushfires leave operators struggling to get back online

14 January 2020 | Natalie Bannerman

Since the New South Wales (NSW) government officially declared a state of emergency in December, Australia has been in the grips of one of the worse bushfires in recent memory.

MTS to sell Vodafone Ukraine to Bakcell for $734m

14 January 2020 | Natalie Bannerman

Russian operator MTS has entered into an agreement to sell Vodafone Ukraine to Bakcell, a subsidiary of NEQSOL Holding for an approximate $734 million.

TM Forum adds three new names to board of directors

13 January 2020 | Natalie Bannerman

TM Forum confirms the appointment of three new people to its board of directors.

Equinix completes $175m acquisition of Mexico data centres

09 January 2020 | Jason McGee-Abe

Equinix has today announced the completion of its acquisition of three data centres from Axtel that serve the Mexico City and Monterrey metro areas of Mexico.

Orange selects BNP, Morgan Stanley to support African IPO

09 January 2020 | Natalie Bannerman

Orange is rumoured to have chosen BNP Paribas and Morgan Stanley to advise on a proposed initial public offering (IPO) of its Middle East and Africa business.

Broadcom sells cyber security services unit to Accenture

09 January 2020 | Jason McGee-Abe

Accenture has agreed to acquire Symantec’s cyber security services business from Broadcom.