Digital Colony
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The appetite for private-equity investment is seeing a new peak with both the private-equity owners of Zayo setting record targets for their latest funds.
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Peter Hopper has taken on the role of managing director of DigitalBridge.
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Digital 9 Infrastructure has raised hundreds of millions and has started its investment plan by buying Aqua Comms. But there are other opportunities in the pipeline, Thor Johnsen tells Alan Burkitt-Gray
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Infrastructure investment company Colony Capital is to rename itself DigitalBridge Group from 22 June.
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Marc Ganzi’s Colony Capital is making one of its biggest moves ever out of non-digital investments, so that it can focus on digital infrastructure.
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Wifi and mobile infrastructure company Boingo Wireless is now officially part of Digital Colony after March’s takeover bid was completed last week.
Forthcoming events
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Liberty Global and investment fund Digital Colony have created the AtlasEdge Data Centres joint venture, with the aim of establishing over 100 branded edge data centres across Europe.
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Global infrastructure investment firm Digital Colony is acquiring Landmark Dividend (LD), the real estate and infrastructure acquisition and development company, for $972 million - which includes a number of digital and data centre assets.
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Freshwave, the network service provider backed by Digital Colony, has acquired the managed service division of Wifi firm Airangel.
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The former COO of Profesional Telekomunikasi Indonesia, Michael Bucey, and former CFO of Interxion, Josh Joshi, have joined Digital Colony as operating partners.
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TIM Brasil, the Latin American offshoot of the former Telecom Italia, is to expand its 4G mobile network using solar energy in off-grid areas.
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Biden's $100bn broadband boost; Digital Colony splashes out in Indonesia and edge is the word in data centres
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Digital Colony’s Edgepoint offshoot is spending US$750 million on buying more that 4,200 towers from Indosat Ooredoo, the Indonesian telco owned by Qatar’s Ooredoo.
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Dan Caruso’s new company plans to offer customers access to cloud services on its first quantum computer this year, and to offer further models for sale in 2022.
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An investment group is planning to raise £400 million on the London Stock Exchange to invest in digital infrastructure, including subsea operator Aqua Comms.
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Mobile infrastructure and wifi company Boingo Wireless is to become part of Digital Colony’s empire, which already includes FreshWave, Highline do Brasil and 50% of Zayo.
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Interest rates, acquisitions and auction costs were the leading topics to be tackled during the CEO Panel Discussion at Metro Connect USA 2021.
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Vantage Data Centers doubled its size in terms of markets served, and increased IT capacity by more than 90% in 2020.
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Infrastructure investment company Colony Capital has hired Latifa Tefridj-Gaillard from Goldman Sachs to develop its European presence.
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Telcos might give stable returns on long-term infrastructure, but stock markets don’t seem to like the industry, writes Alan Burkitt-Gray. That’s why private equity investors and pension funds are stepping in
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This episode features deputy editor Melanie Mingas, editor-at-large Alan Burkitt-Gray and senior reporters Natalie Bannerman and Abigail Opiah.
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US investor Digital Colony has made its second new investment in towers in two days, by buying Eco-Site, just a day after it bought Phoenix Towers in Brazil.
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Highline do Brasil, the tower company owned by Digital Colony, is to buy another Brazilian tower company, Phoenix, from existing owner Blackstone.
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Dan Caruso has stepped down from the leadership of Zayo, the company he co-founded in 2007.
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The banks handling the planned sale of GTT Communications’ so-called Apollo infrastructure unit – the former Interoute and Hibernia Networks – have received two bids, Capacity understands.
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Digital Colony and EQT’s Zayo has hired a former senior executive in Interoute and GTT to run its European business – just as GTT reaches the final stages of selling its infrastructure operations.
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Digital Colony and its subsidiaries highlighted a “resilient underlying business” in its Q2 financial results – the first results to be published since the appointment of a new CEO and CFO.
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A company bought last December by Marc Ganzi’s Digital Colony is set to buy bankrupt Brazilian operator Oi within the next few days.
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In his first interview since the Zayo acquisition, Marc Ganzi tells Alan Burkitt-Gray about his bid by Digital Colony with EQT, and what Zayo will do under new ownership.
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Marc Ganzi will become CEO of Colony Capital on 1 July, the company has announced. He is already CEO of Digital Colony.