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Peter Cladingbowl has been appointed as senior vice president, engineering and operations support at Interxion. Cladingbowl will oversee the development of Interxion’s 28 European data centres, and the continuing development of the company’s pan-European footprint and services. Prior to joining Interxion, Cladingbowl was vice president of operations at Global Crossing and has 11 years’ experience in the telecoms industry. He has a background in the offshore oil industry and spent six years working in manufacturing.

International carrier’s carrier WIOCC has appointed Mike Last as director of marketing and international business development. The newly created position will see Last become responsible for signing high-capacity users to WIOCC’s connection, as well as marketing in Africa and other international markets. Before working with WIOCC, Last held a variety of positions in marketing, business analysis, business development and consultancy with a number of companies, including Turk Telekom, FLAG-Reliance, Colt and BT.

Research conducted on behalf of fibre network provider Geo suggests that public internet infrastructure congestion is affecting enterprises across the UK.

It would appear that the new regime at France Telecom are all for action.

US-based fibre network operator RCN Metro has relaunched itself as Sidera Networks, following the acquisition of parent company RCN Corporation by private investment fund Abry Partners.

Kavit Majithia looks at the development of mobile money services as France Telecom’s Orange money launches further mobile payment services across Africa

The heavyweights of European telecoms have been flexing their muscles again – Telefonica is shoring up its investment in Latin America with the acquisition of Vivo, finally, from Portugal Telecom, while France Telecom Orange’s new CEO Stephane Richard has laid out his five-year plan “Conquests 2015”.

It’s been an active few months for India’s Bharti Airtel: in early June the company confirmed that its $10.7 billion bid for Zain’s Africa assets had been successful.

Two major African submarine cable systems have opened for business – Eassy on the continent’s east coast and Main One to the west – adding hugely to the region’s international capacity.

Revenue from mobile content and applications in the north American telecoms market will reach $10 billion by 2015 as mobile users increase their usage of smartphones.