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Antonio Belli has been appointed as director of sales and marketing at GlobeNet, the wholesale submarine capacity provider and subsidiary of Oi. Belli has worked at an executive level in telecommunications for over 20 years. He previously worked as director of sales and marketing for Latin America and the Caribbean for Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks. This position gave Belli the experience in the fibre-optic cable industry and in the Latin American market required for his new role. Belli has also worked under other global initiatives including business development, sales and marketing within the US and Brazil.

Data centre provider Equinix has announced the expansion of its operations relationship with AMS-IX.

German cable company Kabel Deutschland (Kabel DL) has agreed to buy cableco Tele Columbus for approximately €618 million.

Following controversial regulatory proposals on Monday that would see India’s 2G spectrum licences re-auctioned at nearly 10 times the original price, there has been speculation that Telenor will cut its losses and leave the Indian market.

Funke Opeke, CEO of Main One Cable, has said that the company is unconcerned by the arrival of the WACS cable in the West African market, which was officially launched on May 11.

Three carriers have established what is claimed to be the shortest transmission route between Russia and Europe, the Baltic Highway.

There were 444.33 million broadband subscribers globally by the end of Q2 2009, according to Point Topic.

Gerard Kleisterlee has been appointed as chairman of Vodafone. Kleisterlee has experience in running an international company and working with emerging markets. In his previous role, Kleisterlee was the president and CEO of Philips’ components division and chairman of the Board of Management and the Group Management Committee of Koninklijke Philips Electronics.

Erick Cuvelier has been appointed CIO at Mobistar and will head the company’s IT department. He joins the company from France Telecom-Orange where he was VP of group design and user experience for the past three years.

Pacific Fibre has signed the first customer for its cable system connecting Australia, New Zealand and the US.