FibreCos – Page 9
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Network & Infrastructure
The Backfill: Australian gov invests in BAI tower resiliency
BAI Communications chosen to upgrade Australian towers in natural disaster-prone regions.
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People
Digital infra people moves: EU C-suite changes at Telekom Austria, Cellnex, Vantage and ATC
Telekom Austria appoints Ivo Ivanovski and Lars Mosdorf to lead preliminary work in spinning out its tower sites.
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Network & Infrastructure
Nature calls for infrastructure builders
Host of new international and national biodiversity regulations have business and operational implications for infrastructure builds. Biodiversity moves up the sustainability agenda for Openreach.
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Network & Infrastructure
The Backfill: Macquarie ploughs millions into data centre growth
Macquarie Technology launches new placement, aiming to capitalise on AI and cloud “megatrends” and finance data centre growth.
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Network & Infrastructure
OTE rolls up sleeves to tackle Greece’s FTTP challenge
Group to invest €375m in FTTP for over 350,000 premises in three years.
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M&A
Open Dutch Fiber ramps up for growth with TOF buyout
Dutch fibre player snaps up digital infra contracting group to accelerate rollout and meet increasing customer demands.
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Strategy & Change
CityFibre: service problems are inevitable; failing your customers is not
The real mettle of a business is often exposed when something goes wrong for the customer.
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Strategy & Change
An MNO no-no? TowerCos tread fine line on active equipment
The shift from renting out passive infrastructure to owning or managing active equipment is being explored by TowerCos as a path for growth, but the way is fraught and uncertain. Investor/InfraCo perspectives from Brookfield, Cellnex, INWIT, Nokia, Phoenix, TowerXchange EMEA, Vantage.
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Network & Infrastructure
The Backfill: Equitix bulks up Gigaclear with fibre funding
Infra investor Equitix boosts Gigaclear’s fibre rollout with new financing.
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Network & Infrastructure
UK gov commits to bolstering rural connectivity
Unleashing Rural Opportunity programme includes £7m fund to “test out new ways” of bringing together satellite, wireless and fixed line connectivity.
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M&A
Telefónica ‘gears up’ for Peruvian fibre sale
Telefónica Peru said to have recruited Deloitte to help manage partial sale of PangeaCo.
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Network & Infrastructure
The Backfill: Brookfield and DigitalBridge ‘embroiled’ in data centre battle
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners and DigitalBridge reportedly looking to land multi-billion dollar deal for Compass Datacenters.
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Strategy & Change
Copper shutdown a ‘game changer’ for Deutsche Telekom, says Höttges
CEO says pilots have been run to test migration approaches. DT’s fibre take-up hampered by its own vectoring success. But Germany does not yet have a firm date for its copper switch-off.
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Network & Infrastructure
The Backfill: Ares injects toob with up to £300m to fund fibre build
Ares Management provides debt financing to toob as it continues expansion of its UK full-fibre network.
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People
Infra investor people moves: Patrizia switches up C-suite
Patrizia designates Asoka Wöhrmann as CEO, while Slava Shafir takes up COO mantle.
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Premium
Openreach earns Equinox approval despite altnet fallout
Equinox 2 wholesale pricing package gets green-lit by Ofcom after months of deliberation and consultation.
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Network & Infrastructure
The Backfill: Macquarie snaps up majority stake in CloudExtel
Macquarie Capital secures majority stake in Indian network-as-a-service business CloudExtel.
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People
Digital infra people moves: BAI tweaks leadership ahead of rebrand
BAI Communications appoints Christos Karmis as CEO of US business, with several other changes prior to Boldyn Networks rebrand in June 2023.
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Premium
Vodacom seeks pan-African play for emerging fibre biz
Vodacom CEO Shameel Joosub is looking to build the Group’s fibre assets beyond South Africa once CIVH deal is closed.
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Network & Infrastructure
The Backfill: InfraVia fuels energy transition with new metals fund
InfraVia Capital Partners launches Critical Metals Fund to support transition to renewable energy sources.