North America
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AT&T has agreed to pay US$13 million to resolve an investigation over a data breach of a cloud vendor in January 2023.
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Macquarie Asset Management and PSP Investments will sell their 88% stake in AirTrunk to a Blackstone-led investor consortium.
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Nokia has signed a multi-year agreement with AT&T to deploy next-generation fibre access technology.
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iBASIS has appointed Patrick George as its new CEO, following renewed backing from its existing financial investors including lead investor Ciclad.
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Nvidia will beat previous results when the chipmaker publishes its earnings later today.
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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.
Forthcoming events
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IQ Fiber has completed its Phase 1 network deployment with service now available to more than 60,000 residential addresses in the Jacksonville metro area.
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Tillman FiberCo (Tillman Fiber), a provider of fibre optic broadband infrastructure, has confirmed the expansion of its fibre-to-the-premise (FTTP) network in Florida.
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Pioneer Consulting has been selected to provide initial engineering and design services for the FISH in SEAK submarine cable system (fibre internet serving homes in Southeast Alaska), an early-stage submarine cable which complements the FISH in AK project (fibre internet serving homes in Alaska).
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Sabey Data Centers will be expanding into Umatilla, Oregon and will develop a 100+MW data centre campus after purchasing 60 acres.
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Digital Realty and TPG have established a joint venture in which TPG will acquire a majority stake in three hyperscale data centres in Northern Virginia.
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The Next G Alliance wants to shape 6G’s development to meet the ‘unique needs’ of the US. Ken Wieland investigates how it can do this while being committed to a single global standard.
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Pharrowtech has announced its expansion into North America with the creation of its new subsidiary, Pharrowtech Inc.
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Dartpoints, a provider of colocation, cloud and cybersecurity services for edge markets has acquired Louisiana’s Venyu – a data centre infrastructure and cloud services provider.
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Rogers Communications has partnered with Lynk Global to test and deliver satellite-to-phone connectivity across Canada.
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has adopted an order that will continue to bolster mobile and fixed voice and broadband services throughout Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.
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Rogers Communications has agreed to acquire BAI Communications’ Canadian Operations (BAI Canada), which holds exclusive rights to build the Toronto Transit Commission’s (TTC) wireless network.
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Equinix has confirmed plans to build an International Business Exchange (IBX) data centre in Montreal.
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Aruba has bolstered its renewable energy capacity with the acquisition of two new hydroelectric power plants in Bergamo, near Ponte San Pietro.
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EdgeCore Digital Infrastructure will expand its presence in Northern Virginia via a partnership with Penzance, a Washington DC-based real estate developer.
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CyrusOne and Aruba have each successfully adhered to terms of the Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact (CNDCP).
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Optical networking company Adtran has delivered data at 800Gbps over a New York state educational network.
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is expanding its connected edge-to-cloud offering with the acquisition of Athonet, a private mobile network technology provider.
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North American data centre leasing reached record levels and vacancy fell to a record low in 2022 according to CBRE.
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The North Pole has now got fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) thanks to Alaska Communications, but not the North Pole that everyone understands by the term.
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The island of Bermuda is to get a new mobile competitor, that will be fully cloud-based.
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The Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) in the Caribbean has started the process to build a national fibre ring that will link with the sole subsea cable that connects it to neighbouring islands and to the US and South America.
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The new 15,840km Southern Cross Next cable from Australia and New Zealand to the US, is now offering Ethernet services at 400Gbps.
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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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DataVerge, which operates a carrier-neutral interconnection facility in Brooklyn, has hired Hunter Newby to join its board of directors.
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Communications infrastructure provider Bluebird Network has announced its intent to acquire the middle-mile fibre network assets from Missouri Telecom (MTI).
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1547 has partnered with investment management firm Harrison Street to buy Chase Tower in McAllen, Texas, one of the most important internet exchange locations for traffic between Texas and Mexico.
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Four leading English-speaking economies have aligned their strategies for secure mobile infrastructure, continuing from the 5G era into 6G.
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FirstLight has confirmed that it is building out its fibre broadband network in parts of Maine.
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Aruba has raised €500 million in funding for the expansion of its Global Cloud Data Center (GCDC) campus.
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Far North Fiber’s Ethan Berkowitz tells Alan Burkitt-Gray that Japanese, US and European businesses have teamed up to build the first cross-Arctic cable, which will cut latency between Europe and Japan by 100ms
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ZenFi Networks is now part of BAI Communications following a deal agreed in July 2022.
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Satellite company OneWeb has partnered with Greenland’s largest telecoms company, Tusass, to bring connectivity to the island – the world’s largest.
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Harbor Link has begun construction on a new fibre optic infrastructure build connecting Alexandria to Ashburn, Virginia.
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The Canadian government is trying to block Rogers Communications’ attempt to buy rival Shaw Communications ahead of negotiations with the country’s Competition Commissioner.
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Customers of FirstLight in 13,000 North America locations can now connect with DE-CIX New York at 325 Hudson Street (pictured).
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Three companies, in Europe, the US and Japan, have formally created the company they hope will build the first Arctic cable.
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Data centre managers are facing profound difficulties. Aruba’s Giancarlo Giacomello talks to Saf Malik about how he meets these challenges proactively and trends to watch for
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DataBank has announced the opening of its latest Salt Lake City data centre, SLC6 – Granite Point.
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Zayo is strengthening its infrastructure between the US and Mexico, with an extension to the Texas border cities of McAllen and Laredo.
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DRFortress, the largest carrier-neutral data centre and cloud marketplace in Hawaii has begun construction to expand its data centre campus in Honolulu.
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AT&T Illinois has agreed to pay a US$23 million fine after attempting to bribe a politician in the state.
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Liberty Broadband’s Alaskan operation, GCI, is expanding its fibre operations in the Arctic state with the aid of US$73 million in government grants.
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GCI says it has made the final subsea fibre splice for its AU-Aleutians Fiber Project, which connects a string of islands south-west of Alaska.
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The US government is giving the Alaska Telephone Company US$33 million to expand fibre connectivity in rural south-east Alaska.
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T5 Data Centers will build a 54MW data centre campus at its Hillsboro, Oregon location, as part of a long-term lease and built-to-suit project with Flexential.
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Nokia is extending its industrial portfolio of the user equipment to facilitate private wireless network connectivity in North America.
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Virginia still has more hyperscale data centre capacity than both Europe and China, a new report from Synergy Research Group has revealed.
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IQ Fiber has activated the first portion of its fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network in Jacksonville.
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Exa Infrastructure has announced the appointment of Frank de Fremery as its head of data centres and colocation.
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Rogers Communications will invest C$10 billion into improving the reliability of its network, after one of its biggest network outages to date.
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Italian data centre company Aruba is building a 30MW data centre campus in Rome, due to be completed in the first quarter of 2023.
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This year will see Chinese and North American mobile operators at their peak for buying radio access network (RAN) equipment, says a report today.
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Emerging broadband service provider LiveOak Fiber has received a US$150 million investment from Infrared Capital Partners to build a fibre network in Glynn Country, Georgia and Okaloosa Country, Florida.
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Spark New Zealand has sold a 70% interest in its TowerCo business to Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board (Ontario Teachers) for $900 million.
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Aligned Data Centers has confirmed it will construct a third hyperscale data centre at its existing campus in Salt Lake City, Utah, called SLC-03.
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Rogers Communications’ plan to buy rival Shaw Communications faces more uncertainty following continued opposition from Canada’s antitrust regulator.
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The international division of Canadian telco Telus will be selling business services to enterprises if its agreed C$2.3 billion bid for LifeWorks goes ahead.
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Everstream has announced plans to quadruple its investment across Columbus, Ohio.
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NTT Ltd has bought land in Prince William County, Gainesville, Virginia from Lerner Enterprises, one of Washington DC’s largest private developers, to build a new large-scale data centre campus.
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Brightspeed has announced plans to deliver over 60,000 new fibre passings by the end of 2023, as part of the first phase of its fibre network build in Virginia.
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Veon has sold its operations in the eastern European nation of Georgia to its former local partner for just US$45 million.
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Ocean Networks has been selected by the Research Corporation of the University of Hawaii (RCUH)to conduct research on fibre optic cable routing and site locations for new cable landing stations.
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As Canada finally followed its Five Eyes allies in banning Huawei and ZTE equipment, diverse supply chains become essential to ensure telcos are not reliant on a small handful of operators.
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Verizon has pledged an additional $149 million to Florida to meet increasing demands on its network.
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Texas carrier Logix Fiber Networks plans to speed up network build following private equity investment of US$100 million.
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Rogers Communications remains defiant in its pursuit to acquire rival operator Shaw Communications despite opposition from Canada’s Commissioner of Competition Matthew Boswell.
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This is the 15th ITW, but how did it start? Alan Burkitt-Gray was there at the first, and tells the fascinating story
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Maple Leaf Fibre, the planned inter-city Canadian link between Toronto and Montréal, has dropped its plan for an underwater segment and will be entirely terrestrial for the whole length.
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The government of the Cayman Islands in the Caribbean has commissioned a feasibility study into the need for a new subsea cable.
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The board of directors of the Dominican Institute of Telecommunications (INDOTEL) has authorised Lleida.net to provide seven certified electronic communication services.
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Rogers Communications has launched the first commercial 5G standalone (SA) network in Canada.
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Aligned Data Centers is planning to develop to new data centre on its hyperscale campus in Phoenix, Arizona.
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Meta is to invest more than US$800 million in a new data centre that it said will be the "first of its kind in Missouri".
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Verizon Connect’s fleet management software platform has been integrated into Amazon Web Services as a result of a new partnership between the companies.
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QTS Realty Trust will expand its connectivity ecosystem after unveiling a long-term agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS).
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DataBank will expand its San Diego data centre facility, SAN1 the company has announced.
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OneWeb has announced that the US government has approved its appointment of three former senior US national security officials to serve as members of its proxy board.
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Rogers and Microsoft have announced a five-year deal to help small and medium business customers accelerate digitization through Microsoft Azure.
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A Canadian offshoot of Kyndryl, the IBM infrastructure spin-off, is to use the OneWeb satellite network to offer internet access in remote part of the country.
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Rakuten Symphony snaps up Robin.io and telco cloud IP
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Türk Telekom has deployed Red Hat OpenShift to transform its business to from core to edge, while Elisa has partnered Google Cloud on cloud transformation.
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Intelsat has completed a demonstration of a 'first of its kind' private mobile network with Microsoft.
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DE-CIX is to expand its carrier and data centre neutral IX platform into multiple EdgeConneX data centres as part of its continuous work to scale its interconnection capabilities.
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In this episode of the Digital Digest, we roundup the biggest stories of the week from tower sales to contract announcements and the use cases for 6G.
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DigitalBridge Group has published its fourth quarter (Q4) and full year (FY) 2021 financial results
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Capacity shares five key stories making headlines around the world today.
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China Telecom has taken the latest step to exit the US following its ban by the US regulator.
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Vertical Bridge has appointed Ronald G. Bizick, II as its new president and chief operating officer (COO).
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Satellite operator Intelsat has emerged from bankruptcy with its debt cut from US$16 billion to $7 billion, and with $6.7 billion in new finance.
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Tillman Infrastructure, a US-based tower company, has appointed Todd Smith as the firm's new chief financial officer (CFO).
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Kyndryl and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are partnering to help customers transform their businesses with enterprise cloud services and solutions.
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IBM has increased its investment in Quantinuum, a US$300 million joint venture formed last year by Honeywell and Cambridge Quantum Computing.
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Dell Technologies has introduced new telecoms solutions and services to bolster open telecom network ecosystems.
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Cohere Technologies has closed its Series D funding round with a US$46 million raise as it brings an enhanced version of its Universal Spectrum Multiplier (USM) to the market.
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US cable TV operator Cox Communications is to upgrade its customers’ home connections to 10Gbps
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Satellite company Iridium has reduced its quarterly loss to US$5.9 million, compared with $7.9 million in the previous year, and $107.9 million in the same quarter the year before.
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The US financial regulator has made South Korean telco KT pay a total of US$6.3 million for bribing politicians in South Korea and Vietnam.
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Capacity shares five key stories to watch from around the world today.
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The world’s largest bank has teamed up with Ciena and Toshiba to develop quantum technology that can deliver 800Gbps channels and a total speed of 2.4Tbps.
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Capacity shares financial results from key players in the telecoms space.
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DE-CIX has deployed a switch in Cyxtera’s 350 East Cermak Road data centre in Chicago.
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Global 5G IoT satellite operator, OQ Technology, has been granted a patent for its IoT ‘wake-up’ technology by the US Patent and Trademark Office.
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Telco supplier TEOCO has announced the acquisition of Software Synergy Inc (SSI).
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A New York-based company that is working with Telefónica says it has developed a quantum-based key system that is available in the cloud.
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Intel Corporation (Intel) is to acquire Tower Semiconductor (Tower), an Israeli manufacturer of analogue semiconductor solutions, for approximately $5.4 billion.
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Capacity is now accepting entries for its annual 20 Women to Watch power list!
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Windstream Wholesale will connect its Intelligent Converged Optical Network (ICON) to the AUBix LLC data centre near Auburn University.
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400Gbps technologies are expected to drive service provider router market growth, according to a report by Dell’Oro Group.
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Syniverse this morning dropped its plan for a US$2.85 billion reverse takeover that would have seen the company listed.
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Global management consulting firm Bain & Company has published its 2022 Global M&A report which found that telecoms M&A experienced a dramatic rebound during 2021.
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A very British approach to regulation; altimeter checks in Norway and the cold side of quantum computing
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AT&T has agreed to use Inteliquent's Internet Protocol (IP) voice traffic exchange services.
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Arelion, the former Telia Carrier, has upgraded its network capacity and capabilities at 1623 Farnam’s interconnected edge data centre in Omaha.
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Lumen Technologies will expand its Quantum Fiber fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network over 2022, CEO Jeff Storey said last night, as he announced the company’s results.
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Direct Internet Access (DIA) is hot on the heels of Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), which has experienced a sharp decline, with 42% of average sites running the product in 2021 according to TeleGeography.
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SoftBank will be floating shares in its chip design company, Arm, following the collapse of plans to sell it to rival chip company Nvidia.
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DE-CIX New York has announced it is now consistently exceeding one terabit per second (Tbps) peak internet traffic across its NY/NJ internet exchange platform.
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A US-based company is claiming success in its trials of using satellite to connect mobile phones.
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A venture capital investor has pumped US$50 million into a space start-up founded by Greg Wyler, previously of O3b and OneWeb.
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Young women aspiring to a career in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) are able to access a new scholarship, courtesy of Telesat.
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Norwegian regulator Nkom has conducted tests to determine whether 5G could interfere with altimeters in helicopters.
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IBM has teamed with the Government of Quebec to launch the new Quebec-IBM Discovery Accelerator.
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DE-CIX Frankfurt and DE-CIX New York have achieved two data records at its respective Internet exchange facilities.
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Veon is moving its group parent company from Bermuda to London, saying it wants to be in “a jurisdiction with high standards of corporate governance”.
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Activist investors; shareholding U-turns; and STL's Ankit Agarwal
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Rogers Communications has appointed Glenn Brandt as its new chief financial officer (CFO).
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Capacity shares five key stories making headlines around the world today.
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CommScope has become the latest name to join Meta Connectivity's Evenstar initiative, which is working build general-purpose RAN reference designs for 4G and 5G networks in the Open RAN ecosystem.
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RCS (Rich Communication Services) subscribers will grow from 1.2 billion in 2022 to 3.8 billion by 2026 according to a new study from Juniper Research.
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Canadian carriers Metro Optic and Crosslake Fibre are to work together to expand their services to hyperscale users in Canada and the US.
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As the connected future dawns, telcos and network operators will collaborate in even more complex supply chains and ecosystems. Daniel Bar-Lev, VP strategic programs at MEF, explains how simplicity is still possible