Connexa, Ontario Teachers' to acquire NZ tower assets

Connexa and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan have agreed to acquire 2degrees’ passive mobile telecommunications tower assets for NZ$1.076 million

Infranode to acquire Norwegian fibre business

Infranode is set to acquire the entirety of Sola Bredbånd from the municipality of Sola in a transaction valued at NOK 515 million

Enel Romania enters sale negotiations with PPC

Greek utility Public Power Corporation has entered into exclusive negotiations with Enel Group on the sale of all of its Romanian operations

Polish data centre leader to build new facility

Atman – a Polish data centre specialist – has finalised the purchase of 5.5 hectares of land near Warsaw where it plans to build its fourth data centre in the country

Helios and Rakiza close Oman towers acquisition

Telecoms operator Helios and private equity fund Rakiza have jointly closed on a $495 million deal to acquire stakes in Omantel’s passive tower assets in Oman

Takeover bid for stake in Vantage Towers

Vodafone Group has launched a voluntary takeover offer for Vantage Towers via Oak Holdings, open to all minority shareholders of European telecoms business Vantage Towers

Italy competition authority approves Irideos deal

Asterion Industrial Partners has been given the green light by Italy’s competition authority – Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato – for its acquisition of a 78.4% stake in Italian cloud and data centre company Irideos from Fondi italiani per le infrastrutture

Patria sells on LatAm data centre

Patria Investments, a global alternative asset manager, is selling its stake in Brazilian data centre provider ODATA to US firm Aligned Data Centers

Bluebird acquires Missouri Telecom fibre assets

US telco Bluebird Network has signed an asset purchase agreement to acquire the middle-mile fibre network assets from Missouri Telecom Inc

CLINT to launch data centre in Hyderabad

CapitaLand India Trust Management – trustee-manager of CapitaLand India Trust – has signed an MoU with the Telangana Government to develop a data centre at CLINT’s International Tech Park Hyderabad, at Madhapur

Infra veteran to lead European fundraising

A London-based infrastructure veteran has been hired to raise capital across Europe for a major North American alternative asset manager

Freshwave hires Wiggin to lead for UK

Freshwave appointed Nick Wiggin as partnerships lead to strengthen the firm’s public sector team in the UK to drive engagement on telecoms developments

IJGlobal Awards 2022 – deadline extension

The deadline for submissions to IJGlobal Awards 2022 – the biggest celebration of greenfield infrastructure and energy achievements in the international industry calendar – has been pushed back to the end of this week

Tiger's $40m loan for Philippines telecoms tower

Tiger Infrastructure Philippines has signed a $40 million loan with the Asian Development Bank to develop telecoms towers in the underserved regions of the archipelago