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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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Altice USA confirms the restructuring of its senior leadership team following the resignation of Hakim Boubazine, chief operating officer and president of telecommunications.
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Season 3, episode 2 is presented by editor Melanie Mingas, and features editor-at-large Alan Burkitt-Gray, deputy editor Natalie Bannerman and this week's guest, Colm Shorten, senior director of data centres at JLL.
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Microsoft is establishing its Azure Space unit in Adelaide, South Australia, in partnership with Nokia.
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Vantage Data Centers has expanded into the Asia-Pacific market through two acquisitions.
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Perry Offutt, the former North American MD of Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets, has joined H.R.L Morrison & Co.
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Chindata Group is to "proactively explore" the development of zero-carbon data centres after becoming the first digital infrastructure participant in the UN's Global Compact initiative.
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Liquid and Unitas Global are aiming to create the largest network of interconnected data centres in Africa.
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T-Systems and Google Cloud are planning to build a sovereign German cloud to provide services to the country's enterprises and its public sector.
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Tanzania has made an about-turn on its plan to impose high taxes on mobile money transactions, following an intervention by the president.
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Macquarie Infrastructure Partners V (MIP), an infrastructure fund managed by Macquarie Asset Management (MAM), has completed the acquisition of Cincinnati Bell for $2.9 billion.
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5G security firm Exium is collaborating with IBM to help firms securely adopt an edge AI strategy.
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Australia's Zella DC has introduced its Micro Data Centre as-a-service (MDCaaS) offering, available for all its existing micro data centres.
