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Jon Hunt, UKTIN, project board member and executive director of research, enterprise and innovation at the University of Bristol believes the investment might spark innovation.
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The UAE and Kazakhstan have signed a strategic agreement to create a framework for investment cooperation in data centres and AI projects in the Central Asian country.
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ICG Real Estate has announced that its Strategic Real Estate team has purchased a portfolio of freehold digital infrastructure assets in Central London, which are let to Vodafone UK.
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A leading provider of telecommunication services in the middle east announced record profits in Q1 of 2023.
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Oman’s data centre market will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 9.6% during 2022-2028.
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it is "unlikely" that the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) approve a Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) takeover of CityFibre according to Jerry Dellis, equity analyst at Jefferies Equity Research.
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NSSLGlobal has signed a three-year contract with MOL LNG Transport to roll out its new cyber and IT managed services.
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Lumos is making a US$100 million investment in South Carolina’s Richland and Lexington Counties, to bring ultra-high-speed 100% fibre optic services across the greater Columbia area.
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Alibaba says it will invest US$1 billion in Turkey for a logistics hub at Istanbul’s airport and a data centre near the Turkish capital of Ankara.
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Bristol University is leading a new 6G R&D consortium that has been granted £12 million and involves the likes of Samsung, Ericsson and Nokia.
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BT’s procurement arm, BT Sourced has placed over £2.5 million of third-party spend on Globality’s intelligent sourcing platform.
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Orange will continue its heavy investment in Romania, following the completion of the spectrum auction organised by the country’s regulator ANCOM.
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Partners Group has acquired EdgeCore Digital Infrastructure and will invest up to US$1.2 billion to fund the acquisition and buildout of existing and future data centre sites.
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Vodafone has agreed to sell its Hungarian business in a deal worth US$1.8 billion, the company announced today.
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Liberty Global, Telefonica and InfraVia Capital Partners have formed a joint venture (JV) that will build a new fibre network in the UK via a £4.5 billion cash injection.
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Veon has completed a US$15 million investment as part of a Series A round of funding for Dastgyr, a Pakistani-based B2B e-commerce marketplace platform.
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The total investment in global data centre infrastructure more than doubled in 2021 to US$53.8 billion.
