Infra Investors, Finance & M&A
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Strategy & ChangeUK’s Digital 9 enters ‘next phase’ of prolonged wind-down
Troubled investment group continues efforts to eke out value from its remaining digital infra assets, advancing its long-running wind-down process. However, future of broadcast infra player Arqiva remains a significant source of uncertainty, and D9 concedes it may not complete its sell-off plans for another three years…
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PeoplewatchEMEA telco veteran Rob Shuter bolsters KKR’s digital infra squad
KKR has added heavyweight telco leader Rob Shuter to its advisory panel, tapping his ‘rare’ blend of fibre and telecoms expertise as the firm looks to scale its digital infra stable.
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Venturing & InvestmentsBlackstone targets ready-made data centres with new investment platform
Private equity group moves to launch IPO for new digital infra investment platform, seeking newly constructed data centres while avoiding prospective (and unproven) projects. Move comes as Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman seeks to build on one of the investor’s “best years yet” in infra…
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Financial & PerformanceMacquarie takes a hit as it considers KCOM exit
Investment group writes down more than half a billion pounds on Hull-based operator as reports swirl of imminent sale.
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Venturing & InvestmentsSpain’s Sateliot launches €100m fundraise to ‘accelerate’ satellite rollout
Sateliot kicks off Series-C round, seeking fresh funding to accelerate satellite deployment programme and enable the launch of ‘sovereign’ commercial NB-IoT services later this year…
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Financial & PerformanceUK fibre: lenders seize control of Gigaclear following debt restructure, Infracapital wipeout
In depth: rural provider handed over to lenders in sweeping recapitalisation, following £0.5bn+ debt and equity write-down, with cashflow inflection point said to be on the horizon. Investors zeroed out, following abandoned trade sale, with spotlight also on National Wealth Fund sector exposure…
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M&ALiberty’s Fries dismisses CityFibre ‘sour grapes’ over £2bn nexfibre bulk-up
UK altnet tensions continue to heighten over the competitive implications of planned acquisition of Substantial Group, as Liberty Global CEO hits back at CityFibre over calls for in-depth CMA inquiry.
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Strategy & ChangeLondon fibreco G.Network emerges from administration debt-free
B2B-focused altnet appoints new CEO, having “successfully reorganised”. The altnet now aims to accelerate take-up over its infra…
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M&ADTCP adds Nordics fibreco to digital infra portfolio
Investor acquires Dark Fiber Group to expand data centre interconnectivity in the Nordics. Brendan Ives, CEO at the operator, aims to fill a gap in the market for fresh routes supporting AI and cloud workloads.
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InterviewIrrational and anti-competitive: CityFibre CEO urges CMA scrutiny of nexfibre-Netomnia-VM O2 consolidation play
Exclusive: In his first interview as CEO, Simon Holden unpacks Ofcom’s TAR framework and why the Competition and Markets Authority must intervene in the contentious £2bn nexfibre–Netomnia merger to protect infrastructure competition and prevent re-emergence of duopoly stagnation.
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Venturing & InvestmentsFrance’s InfraVia preps €8bn warchest for digital infra
French investment group closes latest European infrastructure fund at €8bn, with plans to transform mid-market businesses into sovereign European “champions”.
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M&ATelefónica in talks to re-acquire Spanish microwave infra assets — report
Operator reportedly in negotiations to take over Lineox from Asterion Industrial Partners, as it seeks to improve infra control and resilience under Executive Chairman Marc Murtra’s strategic plan.
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Venturing & InvestmentsUK’s Nscale closes $2bn fundraise to expand data centre platform
AI infrastructure player closes multibillion-dollar financing round to help accelerate its expansion of data centres in Europe and beyond.
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Network & InfraVodafone Turkey–DAMAC data centre project nears go-live despite 50% surge in costs
Izmir data centre project set to enter operation imminently, a year behind schedule and with investment jumping $50m on initial estimates.
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M&ATelefónica, Vodafone Spain close out Fiberpass stake sale
Telco duo finalise divestment of a 40% stake in their Spanish fibre joint venture to AXA Investment Managers, enabling them to reduce debt and advance their distinct fibre strategies…
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Venturing & InvestmentsHungary’s 4iG attracts fresh investment from Mubadala
Telco bags investment from Emirati sovereign wealth fund, with 4iG Chairman and CEO Gellért Jászai saying the transaction could “open new avenues” in international financial markets…
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Network & InfraBITÉ and brown-iposs: bridging the confidence gap for Level 5 RAN automation
Mobile network autonomy need no longer be framed as science fiction, but as an engineering discipline: validate inputs, expose decision logic, and quantify impact before changing the network. Baltic mobile group BITÉ’s RAN field test of brown‑iposs’s CARAT offers an instructive lens on what it really takes to operationalise Level 5 ambitions…
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M&AUK’s nexfibre goes big, gets Substantial
Deep dive: nexfibre’s planned takeover of Substantial Group, parent of infra rival Netomnia, is the UK’s first billion pound-plus fibre altnet transaction and may open the floodgates to long-anticipated consolidation in the fragmented, scale-hungry sector. Chief Executive Rajiv Datta speaks to TelcoTitans about how the deal boosts its challenge to incumbent Openreach on wholesale fibre.
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Financial & PerformanceEutelsat draws back from ‘shaky’ GEO as LEO surges
Satco limits investment in geostationary satellites to service continuity and instead hedges future on further LEO growth via the OneWeb constellation. GEO business case considered “more and more shaky”, while LEO presents growth opportunity…
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M&AArdian said to reignite INWIT takeover talks, with Brookfield as backup
French investment fund reported to be working on a joint bid with Brookfield Asset Management to acquire Italian towerco INWIT, in a move that would oust Vodafone-backed Vantage…