In this episode, the team from Data Economy and Capacity discuss Equinix acquiring GPX Global Systems; India’s OFC subsea cable; Qatar's potential $1.5 billion stake in Reliance JioFiber; Facebook's latest large scale data centre in Tennessee; Lebanon's delayed mobile tender; and Huawei goes down under with a new security scandal.
Also in this episode, extra special guest Ranulf Scarbrough, CEO of Avaroa Cable, talks about being stranded on a pacific island since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, yet playing an important role in connecting the Pacific islands to the world.
This episode features editor-in-chief Joao Marques Lima, editor-at-large Alan Burkitt-Gray, deputy editor Melanie Mingas and senior reporters Abigail Opiah and Natalie Bannerman.