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.