EMEA Infrawatch: telcos advance fibre plans; data centre pledges keep coming

This article includes:

• Organisations: 1&1; 1&1 Versatel; 4iG; Africa50; Airbus; Amazon Web Services (AWS); Asterion Industrial Partners; atNorth; AXA Investment Managers; Bayobab; Brookfield; BT; Bundeskartellamt (BKartA); Community Investment Ventures Holding (CIVH); Deutsche Telekom; Digital Realty; DigitalBridge; Digita; Equinix; Eutelsat; Fiberpass; GI Partners; Glasfaser Nordwest; Hispasat; Indra; Maziv; Microsoft; Mira Aerospace; MS3 Networks; MTN Digital Infrastructure; Nabiax; Orange Group; Orange Morocco; PPC; Quickline; Retelit; SAP; Schwarz Group; Siemens; Space Communication Technologies (SCT); Space42; Stadtwerke Osnabrück; Telefónica United Internet; Vantage Towers; Vodacom; Vodafone Group; Vodafone Spain.
• Geographies: Africa; Angola; Burkina Faso; Central African Republic (CAR); Chad; Congo; Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC); Denmark; Europe; Finland; Germany; Greece; Hungary; Iceland; Ireland; Italy; Middle East; Morocco; Niger; Nigeria; Portugal; Rwanda; South Africa; South Sudan; Spain; Sweden; Tanzania; Uganda; United Arab Emirates (UAE); Zambia.
• People: Bas Burger; Norman Rentrop.
• Themes: AI infrastructure; Antitrust; Cloud services; Cybersecurity; Data centres; Digital infrastructure; Digital sovereignty; Fibre (FTTP); High-altitude platform systems (HAPS); High-throughput services; Hyperscalers; Internet of Things (IoT); Joint ventures; Mobile network operators; Multi-cloud strategy; Satellite; Solar-powered aircraft; Spectrum; Subsea cables; Towers; Wireless infra.