Sparkle
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Sparkle is accelerating its enterprise strategy, with a central focus on multi-vendor end-to-end services -
Telecom Italia (TIM) confirmed it has received a €700 million bid from Italy’s Ministry of Economy and Finance and Asterion subsidiary Retelit to purchase Sparkle.
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Sparkle, the University of Genoa, and the SubOptic Foundation have teamed to establish the world’s first post-graduate degree dedicated to submarine fibre optic cables.
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The partnership will see Airtel Business benefit from additional capacity on the Blue and Raman submarine cable systems
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Sparkle has announced the successful completion of a Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) proof of concept (PoC) centred around quantum-safe Internet use with the commercial launch planned for later in the year.
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The new submarine cable system will utilise Sparkle's infrastructure to access to key Internet Exchange points in Europe
Forthcoming events
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Sparkle has expanded its South American backbone with a new point of presence (PoP) in Cartagena, Colombia.
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TIM’s new CEO has revived a project that may lead to a merger of its fixed infrastructure with that of Open Fiber.
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Telecom Italia – now known as TIM – has offered to buy BT’s scandal-hit Italian operation, Capacity understands.
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TIM, the owner of Sparkle, has added three new executives to senior positions reporting directly to new CEO Luigi Gubitosi (pictured).
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Sparkle has boosted its ERP Infrastructure solution by introducing certified SAP HANA hardware in its Instanbul data centre facility.
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Vivendi has stepped up its war on TIM investor Elliott by attacking the way it weakened the position of previous CEO Amos Genish, who was removed on 13 November.
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Vivendi has re-opened its battle over the future of Telecom Italia with its rival shareholder, the activist fund Elliott Management.
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Sparkle has announced an expansion of its global IP network by launching a new point of presence at MDC Data Centers in El Paso, Texas.
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Less than a week after firing Amos Genish as CEO, the board of TIM has appointed former Wind CEO Luigi Gubitosi to take over.
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TIM fired Amos Genish, its CEO of 14 months, this morning and is looking to appoint a replacement by the weekend
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TIM says a Rome newspaper was wrong on Sunday when it said two of the company’s biggest shareholders wanted CEO Amos Genish to quit.
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Sparkle’s revenues fell by 7.6% in the first three quarters of the year, according to today’s results from TIM.
