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Zayo Europe made headlines last week as it announced the carve out of its European business, a month after hiring telco veteran Colman Deegan as European CEO. Capacity caught up with Deegan to find out more.
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Deutsche Telekom Global Carrier has announced at ITW 2024 that 24-year veteran Rolf Nafziger will step away from his current role overseeing its global wholesale unit to take up a new role as executive advisor within the strategy consulting department.
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Data centre operator Flexential will announce today at ITW 2024 an expansion of its FlexAnywhere Platform with plans to develop its fifth data centre and colocation facility in the Denver area.
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A proposed change to Sri Lanka’s Telecommunications Regulatory Commission Act could allow third party’s to start building macro telecom sites in the country.
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Six weeks after a short report from hedge fund Hindenburg research accused Equinix of nefarious accounting practices and other falsehoods that were inflating its value, the company has finally responded.
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Zayo Group has announced it will be carving out two separate entities, its European business and its business that manages customers global network needs outside of Europe and North America.
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Capacity's Saf Malik is joined by a panel of guests to discuss the news that SES are to acquire satellite communications rival Intelsat.
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Microsoft has announced significant commitments to build new cloud and AI infrastructure in Thailand.
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Ofcom referred the £7.5 billion UK cloud market to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) for investigation in October 2023, citing several concerns around competition.
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Global satellite operator SES has agreed to acquire Intelsat for $3.1 billion (€2.8 billion euros),
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Future investments into Ukrainian telecoms infrastructure are expected to be both “heavy” and “indispensable” for the country, given the essential nature of Kyivstar’s services, a spokesperson for the company told Capacity.
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The gold-tier Google Verified Peering Provider badge is for ISPs who offer Google Cloud customers a simplified alternative to direct peering.
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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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Huawei’s rotating chairman Eric Xu says the Chinese company aims to seize strategic opportunities in AI and advance its All Intelligence strategy.
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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.
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Colman Deegan has been named as the new European CEO for global network provider Zayo Group.
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In a letter, members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have called for the European Commission to develop regulations to protect against quantum computers being used for malicious purposes.
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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 is using Starlink’s Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite technology to provide mobile backhaul for some of the country’s most remote locations to accelerate its Shared Rural Network (SRN) rollout.
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Awasr AMS-IX, and Alliance Networks have teamed up to launch the Oman Internet Exchange at Equinix’s MC1 data centre in Muscat.
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Google has announced a $1billion investment to expand its Central Pacific Connect Initiative, which includes delivering two new subsea cables, Proa and Taihei.
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The US has plans to award Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) US$6.6 billion in grants and up to $5 billion in loans to help the company build factories in Arizona.
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Microsoft AI, the newly launched Microsoft organisation that is tasked with helping the company advance its consumer AI products has announced it is opening an AI hub in London.
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Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI could raise around US$3 billion from investors, giving the company a value of $18 billion.
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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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nLighten has acquired seven edge data centres from its sister company Exa Infrastructure.
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The UK and US have signed a landmark deal to work together to test advanced AI.
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX has accused Telecom Italia (TIM) of obstructing the rollout of its high-speed Starlink satellite internet service in Italy according to a report from Bloomberg.
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Singtel will partner with Cisco, Fortinet and Nokia to provide quantum security solutions to enterprises through its Quantum Safe Network (QSN).
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Equinix yesterday announced its board of directors has commenced an independent investigation into matters referred to in a short report from Hindenburg Research last week.