Companies
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American investment firm Blackstone will buy an industrial site previously earmarked for British battery manufacturer Britishvolt.
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AdaniConnex, a joint venture between Indian conglomerate Adani group and edge data centre provider EdgeConneX, has announced that it has secured up to $1.44 billion to build Indian data centres.
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The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has started a detailed Phase 2 investigation looking into Vodafone UK’s joint venture agreement with Three UK.
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Bayobab white paper: read about the big developments taking place to extend connectivity across Africa.
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AtlasEdge has entered the Portuguese market with the acquisition of two adjacent sites in Lisbon that will deliver more than 20MW of IT load.
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Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) has agreed to acquire a 51% stake in Saudi Telecom Company (stc’s) carve out towerco TAWAL.
Forthcoming events
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Malaysia’s Axiata and India’s Bharti Airtel have signed an agreement to merge their Sri Lankan telecom operators.
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e& Carrier & Wholesale has launched a stack of new off-net services under its managed services portfolio including Roaming-as-a-service (RaaS).
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Wireless Logic, a global IoT provider, has secured authorised reseller status for SpaceX’s Starlink.
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Auramo will replace Giorgio Migliarina, who has been serving as interim CEO since September 2023, on July 1 of this year.
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Virgin Media Business Wholesale has confirmed that it will not raise its prices for new businesses or existing services across all products throughout 2024.
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Northumberland County Council is set to consider a proposed sale of the Northumberland Energy Park (NEP3) land site in Cambois to Blackstone, so a hyperscale data centre can be built.
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The Vast Data Platform will now be available on Google Cloud.
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Global InterXchange (GIX), a provider of dark fibre infrastructure solutions, is partnering with NYI, a data centre and interconnection business, to launch a new fibre route connecting Lower Manhattan, Northern New Jersey.
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Ericsson has been selected by Orange Egypt as a strategic partner to accelerate its digital transformation and build resilient architecture across its network.
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Axiata subsidiary Edotco will sell its 87.5% stake in its Myanmar towerco to a local investment group, Yoma Strategic Holdings, people familiar with the matter told Capacity today.
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Nvidia and Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison will build a US$200 million AI centre in Indonesia, Southeast Asia’s biggest economy.
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The Special Communications Organisation (SCO), and One Network have entered a strategic alliance with Cybernet.
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As the exclusive partner for stc Kuwait, the partnership aims to empower businesses with scalable and efficient communication solutions.
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Mat Preston of Virgin Media Business Wholesale talks about how today’s big tech innovations will impact on tomorrow’s networks.
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Casa Systems has begun a court-supervised Chapter 11 process with the aim achieve the optimal sales of its businesses.
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Evoque and Cyxtera have unveiled their new combined identity Centersquare, a retail/wholesale colocation and interconnection provider.
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WOM, the Chilean start-up operator, has filed for bankruptcy in the US.
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The AT&T data breach, which affected 73 million customers is a “wake-up call for the telecom industry to keep up with the times”.
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Tillman FiberCo (Tillman Fiber), a provider of fibre optic broadband infrastructure, has confirmed the expansion of its fibre-to-the-premise (FTTP) network in Florida.
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Lendlease and Princeton Digital Group (PDG) have completed construction of the core and shell of Phase 1 of the 96MW TY1 data centre campus.
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Cologix has partnered with Bandwidth IG to introduce dark fibre connectivity at its SV1 data centre in Silicon Valley.
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New telco rules are on its way following the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) report reviewing its telecoms regulations.
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Using latest generation mobile networks to allow operators to connect all passengers on the future line and platforms by 2025.
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Wim Van Thillo, CEO and co-founder of Pharrowtech discusses raising the US’s national broadband speed benchmark.
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Originally purchased in 2022, AtlasEdge has invested £13 million into the site as well as purchasing data centres in Hamburg and Vienna.
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Ooredoo Group and e& confirm the deployment of the Gulf Gateway Cable (GGC1) subsea cable system.
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Tom O’Hagan has been appointed as CEO Platform X Communications (PXC), formerly Virtual1 and TalkTalk’s Wholesale Services.
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GlobalConnect has finalised the construction of its 2,600km super fibre cable, capable of transporting all data in the Nordics.
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New locations in Guatemala and Mexico activated in response to growing demand of traffic between the U.S. and Central and South America
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AI stands to be transformative for data centres, Jonathan Kinsey, global and EMEA Lead for data centre solutions at JLL tells Saf Malik
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Blackstone has expanded its exposure to the data centre industry once again, this time through its credit and insurance business (BXCI)
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BDx Data Centers (BDx) has announced the acquisition of the freehold of OneTen Paya Lebar, the site of its flagship SIN1 data centre.
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Elon Musk has announced that his AI company, xAI, will release its first-ever language model as open-source software.
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Brazil’s National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) has announced a regulatory sandbox designed to support trials for direct to device satellite connectivity.
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e& has made a pledge to the International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU) Partner2Connect Digital Coalition (P2C) to invest US$6 billion in regional connectivity.
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NEC’s Netcracker and Indosat Ooredoo Hutchinson (IOH) will expand a partnership to support IOH’s increasing fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) subscriber numbers.