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Chunghwa Telecom has partnered with satellite startup Astranis to build a dedicated MicroGEO system for Taiwan. -
Vodafone has quietly spent the first half of April buying back tens of millions of its own shares in a sustained campaign that began just days after disclosing its total voting rights to the market.
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As fibre investment moves beyond its early boom, what comes next?
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BT’s sale of its Irish wholesale and enterprise arm to Cordiant Digital Infrastructure’s Speed Fibre Group is one step closer to completion, following approval from Ireland’s competition watchdog.
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Intel has agreed to sell a majority stake in Altera, its programmable logic device unit, to Silver Lake in a deal worth $8.75 billion.
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Yondr Group has completed the first phase of its second data centre on its 100MW London campus, with 10MW of the building’s full 30MW capacity now live and operational.
Forthcoming events
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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.
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Veon has completed a US$15 million investment as part of a Series A round of funding for Dastgyr, a Pakistani-based B2B e-commerce marketplace platform.
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The total investment in global data centre infrastructure more than doubled in 2021 to US$53.8 billion.
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Saudi Telecom Company (stc) shares rose by almost 10% following news of a potential capital increase proposal from its board.
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BW Digital, an affiliate of BW Group, has completed its acquisition of Hawaiki Submarine Cable Limited Partnership and International Connectivity Services Limited (Hawaiki), for an undisclosed sum.
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EcoDataCenter has invested SEK 1 billion (US$106 billion) in building a new data centre.
