Vodafone sells Hungarian unit

British telecom group Vodafone has agreed to sell its Hungarian unit to 4iG and Corvinus, a Hungarian government-controlled investment company, for $1.81 billion

Mongolia shortlists advisers for satellite city

The government of Mongolia has shortlisted advisers to prepare an infrastructure development investment programme for a greenfield satellite city

New year – new fear

Third close on cards for abrdn fund

abrdn Core Infrastructure is building a head of steam on the third iteration of its core infra investment strategy with momentum taking it towards third close in the middle of next month

Raff joins Moelis & Co as MD, London

Chris Raff has joined independent investment bank Moelis & Company as a managing director, operating out of London

atNorth to acquire Finnish telecom assets

atNorth Holding is to acquire 2 Finnish data centre facilities from Nordic information technology company Advania for an undisclosed sum

Gulf Energy acquires Thai Telecom

Thailand's Gulf Energy Development has completed its previously announced acquisition of Thaicom shares from Intouch Holdings, the parent firm of the country's biggest telecom operator Advanced Info Service

Large UK data centre in the works

UK planning consultancy Heatons Planning has submitted a planning application for a data centre in Middlesborough, England

A note to say...

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Telenet acquires Luxembourg telco

Belgian telco Telenet is to acquire a 50% stake in telecoms contractor Eltrona – becoming its sole shareholder

Singtel to combine with Telkom for Indonesia data centre

Singapore-listed telecom Singtel has entered into a strategic partnership with Indonesia’s largest telecom Telkom and energy company Medco Power for a data centre project in Indonesia

UK data centre offload underway

The sale process for the offload of London-headquartered data centre business Ark Data Centres is in phase 1

Spanish fibre stake sale completes

Network operator Bluevía has entered operations following the completion of Crédit Agricole Assurances and Vauban Infrastructure Partners' 45% stake acquisition from Telefónica Spain

Shareholders approve T&J Engineering takeover

Fibre optic cable manufacturer Opcom Holdings Bhd has received shareholders’ approval to acquire an equity interest in T&J Engineering for a total purchase consideration of up to RM90 million

JICA invests in Nepal infra and renewables

Japan International Cooperation Agency has signed a $10 million investment agreement with Dolma Impact Fund II to invest in healthcare, IT and renewable energy projects in Nepal