The European Commission has unconditionally approved US telecom providers Viasat’s acquisition of British satellite business Inmarsat

British internet of things and infrastructure firm Connexin has reached 25,000 customers and is northern England’s largest alternative fibre network

Global asset manager DigitalBridge has partnered with the Public Investment Fund to develop data centres in Saudi Arabia and across the Gulf Cooperation Council

The UK government has set up the Space Clusters and Infrastructure Fund – the first dedicated fund for UK space infrastructure

Ares Infrastructure’s debt fund has agreed to provide a £160 million financing package to UK fibre provider Toob to fund its network expansion

Final close on a flagship European fund will take place early in Q3, as investors finalise investments in the vehicle

Scottish alternative network provider GoFibre has published a list of 32 locations across Scotland and England which will benefit from the provider’s 10Gbps fibre to the premises connectivity

UK full fibre broadband provider 4th Utility has secured a £25 million financing package from Netherlands-based bank NIBC to accelerate its growth in the UK

French telecoms company Altice has increased its interest in BT Group from 18% to 24.5%

Areim has held the final close of its Nordic data centre fund, Areim DC Fund, at €446 million

Singapore-headquartered Princeton Digital Group has announced plans to build a 150MW data centre in Malaysia – marking its footprint in the country

UK Opeanreach has today announced that it is launching a fibre to the premises roll out in Bishopbriggs, Scotland

Allen & Overy and Shearman & Sterling plan to merge to create a global law firm named Allen Overy Shearman Sterling with combined revenues of $3.4 billion

Manulife Investment Management has taken a majority stake in Serverfarm, a US data centre developer and operator