Sparkle
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46 year-old Matera, lives with his wife and two sons in Sicily
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Sparkle has acquired the rights to use the Algar Telecom’s fibre pairs on the Monet subsea cable connecting Brazil to the US.
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Sparkle announces new point of presence (PoP) in Erbil – the first in the country at Capacity Middle East
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The never-ending story of TIM selling its fixed network to KKR took yet another twist yesterday, as the Italian Government made a bid for 100% of TIM’s infrastructure and connectivity business, Sparkle.
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Sparkle confirms the development of GreenMed, a new subsea cable system across the Adriatic Sea connecting Italy to Croatia, Montenegro, Albania, to Greece and Turkey, and into the Mediterranean.
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Sparkle’s Giuseppe Valentino says the company’s BlueMed cable is adding a valuable new route.
Forthcoming events
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Sparkle has signed an agreement with Telespazio, a joint venture between Leonardo and Thales, and a leading satellite operators or fibre-optic access to Sparkle's Sicily Hub in Palermo.
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Sparkle confirms the expansion of its network footprint to South Africa with the opening of two new points of presence (PoPs) in Cape Town and Johannesburg.
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Telecom Italia (TIM) has approved an €18.8 billion offer for its fixed-line network to US private equity firm KKR.
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Enrico Maria Bagnasco tells Natalie Bannerman about the company's latest global infrastructure projects.
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Earlier this week Sparkle signed an agreement with the UAE-based Kush Investments firm for the provision of virtual fibres on the Equiano subsea cable.
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Sparkle confirms the activation of the terrestrial section of the BlueMed cable connecting Aqaba in Jordan to Sparkle’s Mediterranean backbone.
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Sparkle has signed an agreement with Genoa Data Internet eXchange (Ge-DIX), a non-profit consortium of interconnection services, to establish an Internet Exchange Point (IXP) at Sparkle's Genoa Digital Hub data centre.
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Sparkle in joint collaboration with Trans Ocean Network (TON), a Panamanian telecoms company, have launched the Panama Digital Gateway (PDG).
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Sparkle's chief revenue officer, Mario Pastore, speaks to Capacity editor, Nadine Hawkins, about the BlueMed/BlueRaman project in Palermo, the Panama Digital Gateway data centre project and focus areas for the next 12 months.
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Sparkle has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Libya Postal Telecommunication and Technology Holding Company (LPTIC), the Libyan state-owned telecom company.
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Sparkle will shortly open its Panama Digital Gateway, a state-of-the-art data centre offering a new strategic bridge between North and South America. Mauricio Traverso, executive vice president for the Americas at Sparkle, outlines how there are opportunities across the whole of the Americas as the region’s digital potential expands.
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Sparkle confirms the deployment of next-gen technologies from Infinera and Nokia on its global optical terrestrial and subsea networks.
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Italian service provider Sparkle took home a 2022 Global Carrier Award (GCA) in the Best Subsea Innovation category, for its Genoa Landing Platform (GLP) submarine cable landing infrastructure in northern Italy.
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Sparkle confirms that it has started laying the BlueMed subsea cable in Genoa, Italy.
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Sparkle has launched its enterprise voice suite, described as a comprehensive set of global telephony services for business customers with multinational needs.
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Sparkle, the international wholesale arm of TIM, has a new CEO. Enrico Maria Bagnasco takes over from Elisabetta Romano, though Romano “maintains her role as board director”, said Sparkle last night.
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The ITW Global Leaders Forum (GLF) has published a thought-leadership piece that outlines the network requirements and capabilities of the future.
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TIM, the former Telecom Italia, has given Elisabetta Romano, CEO of its international arm, Sparkle, an extra job.
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Sparkle confirms the activation of its spectrum capacity on the Monet subsea cable system which connect Brazil to the US.
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Sparkle has signed an MoU with the Italian Navy to improve and protect and improve subsea infrastructure.
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Natalie Bannerman speaks to Elisabetta Romano, CEO of Sparkle and chair of the ITW Global Leaders’ Forum (GLF) and Annabel Helm, director of the GLF about Romano's new role and plans for the organisation over the next 12 months.
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Work has officially begun on BlueMed, Sparkle's new subsea cable that will transform Genoa, Italy into a new data hub in Europe.
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Elisabetta Romano, the newly elected chair of the ITW Global Leaders’ Forum, speaks to Natalie Bannerman on the change she plans to drive in the highly coveted role.
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More than 30 carriers have collectively witnessed a seven-fold increase in inbound international voice calls to Ukraine in a single month.