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Pan-African operator AXIAN Telecom has secured a $100 million financing package from the European Investment Bank (EIB Global) to expand mobile broadband infrastructure across Tanzania and Madagascar. -
The EU is set to unveil an ambitious, multi-pronged blueprint it believes will help guide the bloc to become a global AI leader.
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BTS Group has made a strategic investment in ZIM Connections, a company specialising in global eSIM connectivity solutions.
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Colt Data Centre Services (Colt DCS) has unveiled plans to develop four new data centres in Germany.
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Low latency network solutions provider Avelacom has added AWS São Paulo to its portfolio of direct cloud connectivity locations, providing institutional crypto trading firms with streamlined access to Brazil’s B3 exchange.
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Data centres are enjoying a boom, with billions of dollars being pumped into new facilities to support increased demand for cloud and storage services, along with the emergence of AI.
Forthcoming events
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A leading provider of telecommunication services in the middle east announced record profits in Q1 of 2023.
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Oman’s data centre market will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 9.6% during 2022-2028.
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it is "unlikely" that the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) approve a Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) takeover of CityFibre according to Jerry Dellis, equity analyst at Jefferies Equity Research.
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NSSLGlobal has signed a three-year contract with MOL LNG Transport to roll out its new cyber and IT managed services.
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Lumos is making a US$100 million investment in South Carolina’s Richland and Lexington Counties, to bring ultra-high-speed 100% fibre optic services across the greater Columbia area.
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Alibaba says it will invest US$1 billion in Turkey for a logistics hub at Istanbul’s airport and a data centre near the Turkish capital of Ankara.
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Bristol University is leading a new 6G R&D consortium that has been granted £12 million and involves the likes of Samsung, Ericsson and Nokia.
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BT’s procurement arm, BT Sourced has placed over £2.5 million of third-party spend on Globality’s intelligent sourcing platform.
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Orange will continue its heavy investment in Romania, following the completion of the spectrum auction organised by the country’s regulator ANCOM.
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Partners Group has acquired EdgeCore Digital Infrastructure and will invest up to US$1.2 billion to fund the acquisition and buildout of existing and future data centre sites.
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Vodafone has agreed to sell its Hungarian business in a deal worth US$1.8 billion, the company announced today.
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Liberty Global, Telefonica and InfraVia Capital Partners have formed a joint venture (JV) that will build a new fibre network in the UK via a £4.5 billion cash injection.
