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T-Mobile has completed its acquisition of fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) provider Lumos, forming a joint venture set to bring full-fibre broadband to homes across the US.
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A new era is underway at Intel as new CEO Lip-Bu Tan took to the stage at the company’s Vision 2025 event, delivering a candid and defiant keynote that laid bare the stark challenges ahead and his commitment to overcoming them.
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AMD has sealed its £4.9 billion ($6.3 billion) purchase of server maker ZT Systems to accelerate its AI and data centre solutions strategy.
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Vivendi has agreed to sell a 15% stake in Telecom Italia (TIM) to the Italian postal service provider, Poste Italiane, in a deal worth around €684 million.
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Singtel-owned technology services firm NCS is expanding its Asia Pacific footprint, launching a joint venture with Globe Telecom in the Philippines.
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Microsoft is planning to spend billions of dollars in building 50 to 100 new data centres every year, as it expands its Microsoft Azure cloud footprint.
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Eutelsat has spent US$550 million on a 24% stake in satellite company OneWeb, joining Bharti Global and the UK government — which each spent $500 million — as an equal shareholder.
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US and UK investment firms have joined forces to build a $4.2 billion hyperscale data centre campus in Portugal.
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Mavenir, the open RAN company that last year abandoned a US$300 million share flotation plan, has had a $500 million investment from part of the Koch family group.
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AT&T has announced a $2 billion investment over three years in an attempt to bridge the digital divide in the US.
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Jennifer Fritzsche is joining the global telecom and digital infrastructure leadership team at investment bank Greenhill & Co.
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Liquid Telecom began as a carrier providing services across Africa. Now, CEO Nic Rudnick tells Alan Burkitt-Gray why they’ve changed the name to reflect the group’s new business.
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Investors KKR and DTCP have unveiled an independent wholesale fibre venture, which aims to deploy FTTH to "a minimum one million homes by 2025".
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KPN has attracted the biggest pension fund in the Netherlands to take a 50% stake in its open-access rural fibre business at a cost of €440 million.
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Google is to invest $7 billion on its data centres and offices in the US this year, a $3 billion reduction on the figure spent last year.
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Activist investor Cevian Capital has reduced its stake in Ericsson by 1%, less than two months after criticising the firm's approach to growth targets.
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TPG's global impact investing platform The Rise Fund is to invest US$200 million in Airtel Mobile Commerce (AMC), with potential for an IPO within four years.
