November 25, 2023 South Africa
South African telco Telkom, which spun off its telecom towers and mast into a separate division in 2021, is looking to sell the assets to unlock more value in the business. The operator is now in exclusive negotiations over selling its masts and towers business, Swiftnet. The company mentioned...
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November 24, 2023 Germany / Deutschland
Germany’s Hauck Aufhäuser Lamp Privatbank announced that its real estate investment management unit is launching a €300 million fund for institutional investors, targeting data centers in major German cities. This is the company’s first-ever data center-focused fund. Patrick Brinker, head of real...
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November 24, 2023 Europe
Swedish network vendor Telco OEM Ericsson announced that it has issued its first-ever green bond, a €500 million bond with a maturity of four-and-a-half years issued under Ericsson's Euro Medium Term Note Program (EMTN). Carl Mellander, Ericsson’s CFO said, “The successful placement of this green...
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November 22, 2023 Johannesburg
Pan-African operator Open Access Data Centers (OADC) plans to expand its data center in Johannesburg, South Africa, and has reportedly begun work on phase two expansion of its Isando facility, which is expected to be complete in Q1 2024, adding 4MW and 600 racks. Darren Bedford, group chief...
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November 18, 2023 London
Building consultancy Ridge recently acquired London-based Concert, a data center-focused consulting company, to boost its business in that sector. Both companies finalized this acquisition on November 3, but the terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Concert will operate under its current...
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November 17, 2023 Spain
Fibra Medios Telecom announced the launch of a new data center facility in Murcia, Spain, this week. This new facility known as the CPD Titan facility spans across 1,400 square meters and can host up to 120 cabinets across nine data rooms. This new facility also features two fiber entry vaults....
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November 15, 2023 Belgium
Xavier Niel, the founder of French telecoms company Iliad, has acquired a six percent stake in Belgian telco Proximus through his holding company Carraun.The Belgian government has a majority stake of 53.51% in this telco, while the company holds 4.59 percent of its share capital. Niel said, "We...
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November 13, 2023 South Africa
Pan-African digital infrastructure firm Paratus has launched a new teleport in Pretoria, marking its second teleport in South Africa. Paratus announced the launch of the new Goedehoop Teleport in Doornkloof, some 50 miles north of Johannesburg. Managing director of Paratus South Africa, Kallie...
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November 13, 2023 France
Liberty Latin America (LLA) recently agreed to sell about 1,300 telecom towers to Phoenix Tower International (PTI) for $407 million. Tower sites to be monetized in this transaction include towers in locations across Panama, Jamaica, the Bahamas, Puerto Rico, Barbados, and the British Virgin...
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November 10, 2023 Germany / Deutschland
IT services firm Kyndryl announced this week that it will be helping German cooperative bank Hausbank München to relocate two of its data centers from on-premise facilities to Kyndryl’s own facilities in Frankfurt. Kyndryl will rebuild the dedicated server infrastructure, establish a modernized...
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November 09, 2023 Angola
Pan-African firm Paratus has secured a new debt facility worth $31 million from Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund (EAIF), a Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG) company, and its fund manager, Ninety One. This credit facility dedicated to the expansion of its fiber and data center...
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November 08, 2023 Germany / Deutschland
Power and Air Condition Solution Management GmbH (PASM), a wholly owned subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom, has signed a long-term PPA with energy group EnBW. Following this 15-year agreement, PASM will offtake 100MW from the 960MW He Dreiht offshore wind farm in the North Sea. Construction of the...
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November 07, 2023 United Kingdom
The UK Government has awarded £36 million to a district heating system in West London, which will share data center waste heat with up to 10,000 new homes. The Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation (OPDC) will be paid this fund to create the heating system to harness waste heat between...
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November 07, 2023 Germany / Deutschland
Real estate group Goodman has over 3GW of potential data center capacity in its pipeline, according to a Q1 2024 operational update published yesterday. The company notes that this is an opportunity worth tens of billions of dollars as it outlines its ambitions for the data center space. The...
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November 03, 2023 Europe
SK Ecoplant and Lumcloon Energy are planning to create a new age data center in Ireland that will depend on gas-powered fuel cells rather than the regular grid connection. The Irish development company and SK Group’s construction subsidiary signed this agreement this week during a trade mission...
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November 01, 2023 Israel
Internet services have now returned in Gaza after another outage, which took the connectivity in the entire country down for several hours. This disruption occurred just before 3:00 a.m. local time, with Palestinian telco Paltelco announcing that connectivity to the Gaza Strip had been cut off by...
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October 31, 2023 Abu Dhabi
High altitude pseudo satellite (HAPS) firm Mira Aerospace has successfully conducted a 5G connectivity trial from the stratosphere - which ranges from 4-12 miles (6-20 km) above the Earth's surface to around 31 miles (50km). Mira said in an announcement last week, “Our team is excited to announce...
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October 25, 2023 United Kingdom
Specialist alternative asset manager Telecom Group confirmed on Wednesday that it has completed the purchase of London-based wireless network operator Luminet, effectively expanding its footprint across the UK. The Manchester-based Telecom already provides fiber networks to Manchester, Leeds,...
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October 24, 2023 England
Atos has signed an agreement with non-profit sports organization Special Olympics Games for the provision of IT services until 2027. Atos is now in charge of handing and maintaining the organization’s Games Management System, its software, IT security services and innovations; infrastructure...
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October 23, 2023 Europe
Principal Asset Management announced this week that it closed its European data center fund, which is dedicated to acquiring data center assets in Europe, had reached a final close total of €297 million. About 60 percent of the fund is allocated to the core European markets of Germany,...
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