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Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of SpaceX and Starlink, Tesla, X and xAI will have a role in the upcoming second Trump administration, having been appointed to lead the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). -
BT has reportedly put its global division up for sale as part of the company’s ongoing attempts to shave costs
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Veon Group shareholders have expressed concern to the board about the company’s current strategy, citing the underperformance of its share price.
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Singtel has agreed to sell its stake in cybersecurity firm Trustwave for US$205 million.
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Since returning to telecoms in June 2020 as Ribbon Communication’s EVP and CFO, Miguel ‘Mick’ Lopez has had a lot to deal with. He talks to Saf Malik about how the company adapted and stabilised its operations during the pandemic.
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Cellnex Telecom is talking to Deutsche Telekom about taking over its tower business, the CEO confirmed at a meeting of investors and analysts.
Forthcoming events
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Fibre network firm MOX Networks and QTS Realty Trust are partnering to enhance connectivity opportunities for carriers, enterprises, hyperscalers and wireless providers in the new QTS data centre campus in Hillsboro, Oregon.
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Colt Group has committed to achieve net zero emissions by 2030, across all its operations.
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Liberty Latin America confirms that its subsidiary Cable & Wireless Panamá has agreed to acquire América Móvil's operations in Panama (Claro Panamá).
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Ufinet confirms the completion of its acquisition of NB Telecom, in Rio de Janeiro.
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Cloud networking co Extreme Networks has completed its acquisition of Ipanema, the cloud-native, enterprise SD-WAN division of Infovista.
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DXN is acquiring 100% of the SDC data centre in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.
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DāSTOR has made its industry debut through the acquisition of four data centres.
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UBS Asset Management Real Estate & Private Markets (REPM) has acquired UK data centre business Datum Datacentres.
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Capacity’s Alan Burkitt-Gray of Capacity TV speaks to Catherine Hemingray, Global Account Director and Ljubica Draskic, Head of Sales and New Business Development from Smart CIC and they share their insight in connectivity, low latency routes and the products Smart CIC can offer.
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LightEdge, a provider of colocation, cloud and managed service solutions, has been acquired by private investment firm GI Partners.
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ColoHouse has acquired Lume Cloud to add private cloud, cloud backup and recovery and security services in 24 ColoHouse data centre locations globally.
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During the coming 12 months GlobalConnect says it will start deploying a “mega capacity” fibre cable from the very north of Sweden all the way to Berlin.
