The Digital Digest: Airtel bows out of Ethiopia bid; Jassy leaves AWS; Teraco secures a multi-million-dollar investment; and Parler's data workarounds are called into question
The Digital Digest

The Digital Digest: Airtel bows out of Ethiopia bid; Jassy leaves AWS; Teraco secures a multi-million-dollar investment; and Parler's data workarounds are called into question

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Season 2, episode 4 is presented by deputy editor Melanie Mingas, and features editor-at-large Alan Burkitt-Gray, and senior reporters Abigail Opiah and Natalie Bannerman

In this episode of the Digital Digest, we roundup the biggest stories of the week from to new data centre projects and funding rounds, to new subsea cables and Meng Wanzhou's bail conditions.  



In the world of data centres, Abigail talks about CMI's new Frankfurt data centre; Teraco's multi-million-dollar funding round; and a new 16MW facility in Malaysia.

Alan explains why Airtel is out of the bidding for a license in Ethiopia and why Meng Wanzhou lost her bail appeal.

And Natalie covers the biggest headlines from across telecoms, including news on the Africa-1 cable; TIM's FTTH co-investment call; AT&T's spectrum funding; and Parler's data storage problem.

Also in this episode, the team looks at what – and who – could be next for AWS and we also cover the growing number of internet and telecoms blackouts around the world.

Season 2, episode 4 is presented by deputy editor Melanie Mingas, and features editor-at-large Alan Burkitt-Gray, and senior reporters Abigail Opiah and Natalie Bannerman

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