Europe
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The UK Infrastructure Bank (UKIB) has invested in subsea High-voltage direct current (HVDC) cable manufacturer XLCC.
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IQM, a quantum computing developer, has been awarded a contract to deliver the Czech Republic’s first quantum computer, which will be installed at the IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Centre in Ostrava.
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The European Commission has launched a €65 million scheme to invest in research projects investigating quantum semiconductors.
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New research from Vodafone UK reveals that the nationwide deployment of 5G Standalone (SA) technology could transform road and rail travel, saving regular road users £2 billion a year on fuel and boosting the UK economy by £1 billion through increased productivity on trains.
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Quadrivium Digital, a provider of carrier-neutral interconnection data centres, has secured significant financing from Arrow Global to support its expansion into Italy with the launch of a new subsea cable landing and interconnection platform in Genoa.
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Google Cloud has filed a competition complaint against Microsoft with the European Commission, claiming the hyperscaler rival’s licensing terms “restrict” customers from moving to competitors.
Forthcoming events
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GlobalNet, a leading backbone internet service provider, has completed the deployment of a fully protected, ring-based Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) network across Central Europe.
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Nebius has launched a new GPU cluster in Paris as part of its plan to invest more than $1 billion to expand AI infrastructure in Europe by mid-2025.
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A legal and commercial dispute between Deutsche Telekom and Meta has escalated, with both companies trading shots over the future of their data traffic arrangements in Germany.
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Salesforce has joined more than 100 companies including Amazon, Google and Microsoft to have signed up for the EU AI Pact — a voluntary commitment to apply the principles of the AI Act ahead of its enforcement.
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Ciena has unveiled a coherent pluggable designed to help data centre and cloud operators transmit increasing data traffic amid increased demand for AI and machine learning workloads.
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A startup designing glass-based photonic chips has secured $8.5 million in seed funding to reimagine future computing infrastructure.
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Ribbon Communications and Telia Lithuania partnered to upgrade the network infrastructure for LTG Group, the Lithuanian railway company.
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The European Commission has approved Swisscom's €8 billion acquisition of Vodafone's Italian business, clearing another regulatory hurdle to bring the transaction closer to closing.
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The FTTH Council Europe has welcomed a key recommendation from the Draghi Report on Europe’s future competitiveness, which calls for the prioritisation of shutting down legacy copper networks.
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Ericsson has joined Spotify, Meta, and SAP in calling out the EU AI Act, warning the “fragmented” regulation would hinder AI opportunities on the continent.
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In a move to revolutionise home broadband performance, the Broadband Forum has kicked off a project aimed at integrating Low Latency, Low Loss, and Scalable Throughput (L4S) technology into home networks.
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Embattled British telco TalkTalk has secured 100% of its Revolving Credit Facility (RCF) debt through ongoing refinancing efforts.
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RETN has activated a new route between Milan and Zurich, boosting its presence in Italy.
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Nokia has been selected by CoreWeave to deploy its IP routing and optical transport portfolios globally.
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Exa Infrastructure (Exa) has agreed a deal to acquire Global Communications Net AD (GCN), a Bulgarian telecoms company offering services on its owned national fibre-optic network of over 2,500km.
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Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim has raised his BT stake to 4.3% for around £150 million.
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GlobalNet/DATAIX has established a new point-of-presence (PoP) in Zurich, marking the company’s first entry into Switzerland.
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Italy’s Aruba S.p.A (Aruba) has implemented liquid cooling within the data centre campus in Ponte San Pietro (BG), near Milan.
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Grid Telecom and Dawiyat Integrated will collaborate to build a new high-capacity system that will connect Greece with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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In an interview with Capacity at the Digital with Purpose event in Cascais, Portugal Rafael González, CMO at MedUX outlines the integral nature of its 2024 benchmark report on 5G performance across 10 European capitals to both operators and regulators.
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Aire Networks has chosen Nokia mobile core solutions to modernise the operator’s network in Spain.
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IQM Quantum Computers has opened its first quantum data centre in Munich, Germany.
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Peter Zanatta, managing director at Attanz assesses Norway’s importance as a growing data market
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Norway-based Telenor is establishing a new cybersecurity company focused on the Nordic region.
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Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim has taken a 3.2% stake in BT Group, worth around £400 million.
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Veon plans to increase its investment to Ukraine’s digital infrastructure to US$1 billion from 2023-2027.
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KKR has secured EU antitrust approval for its acquisition of Telecom Italia’s (TIM) fixed-line network worth around US$24 billion.
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Orange has completed the merger between Orange Romania SA (ORA) and Orange Romania Communications (OROC) by integrating OROC into ORA.
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The story of how a tragedy in an ammunition storage depot indirectly led to the creation of a sustainable, naturally cooled data centre in a completely different city 60 years later.
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Pan-European carrier RETN has made three significant enhancements to its network infrastructure in Poland, which it hopes will improve internet connectivity across Central and Eastern Europe.
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GlobalNet has confirmed another expansion into Central Europe with the launch of a new point-of-presence (PoP) in Warsaw.
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Grid Telecom and Quadrivium are teaming up to create a new cable landing station (CLS) in Chania, on the northern coast of Crete.
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Samsung and O2 Telefónica have launched their first virtualised RAN (vRAN) and Open RAN commercial site in Germany.
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For the next Data Centre of the Month, Capacity looks at Datacenter Mutualisé Lorrain (DCML), a shared data centre built for a hospital, a university, and a regional government – and a successful example of ‘micro-colocation’.
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Nokia and Vodafone have successfully completed an end-to end Open RAN trial on Vodafone Italy’s live 5G standalone (SA) network.
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Future investments into Ukrainian telecoms infrastructure are expected to be both “heavy” and “indispensable” for the country, given the essential nature of Kyivstar’s services, a spokesperson for the company told Capacity.
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Telecom Italia (TIM) CEO Pietro Labriola is nearing a second term at the operator after a shareholder vote that is set to be held today.
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Turkey’s national regulator, the Information Technologies and Communication Authority (BTK) is reportedly planning to implement bandwidth restrictions on Elon Musk’s social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter).
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Telecom Italia would be left with US$7 billion in cash after repaying its debts if it sold its Brazilian unit and its domestic consumer business according to activity investor Merlyn Partners.
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Data centre specialist LCL will invest €30 million in a fifth data centre in Diegem, Belgium.
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The GSMA and leading European mobile operators confirm the launch of ‘Connecting Europe to 2030: A Mobile Industry Manifesto for Europe’.
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Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN) has been awarded the contract to implement the new Anel CAM subsea project in Portugal.
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For the second Data Centre of the Month, we head north to Iceland – and north again from Reykjavik to Akureyri, where atNorth opened its 12MW ICE03 facility in 2023.
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Phoenix Tower International (PTI) and Cellnex Telecom have reached an agreement by which PTI will acquire 100% of Cellnex’s business in Ireland for €971 million.
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AtlasEdge has completed the acquisition of a new data centre facility in Vienna, marking its entry into the Austrian market.
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French operator Bouygues Telecom has signed an exclusive agreement with La Poste group for 100% of its subsidiary La Poste Telecom, the largest mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) in the French market.
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Vodafone Turkey and Edgenex Datacentres by DAMAC are collaborating to establish a new data centre facility in Izmir Turkey.
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Microsoft is set to expand its AI and cloud infrastructure in Spain, with an investment of US$2.1 billion over the next two years.