Network Rail has selected Neos Networks, a major UK fibre provider, as the preferred bidder for Project Reach, a scheme which will provide nationwide track-side fibre connectivity

The EU Commission has announced antitrust concerns regarding US telecom provider Viasat’s acquisition of British satellite business Inmarsat Group Holdings

Liberty Global has acquired a minority 4.92% interest in Vodafone Group, the equivalent of 1.34 billion shares

WTW, the Nasdaq-listed global advisory, broking and solutions company, has hired Deesha Doshi as an executive director in its credit & political risk practice team in Singapore

EE, part of telecoms group BT, is deploying its ultra-fast 5G network into rural areas of the UK, as well as testing new mobile network technologies

Italian telecoms company TIM’s Brazilian subsidiary, TIM Brasil, and Ecovias do Araguaia, concessionaire of the EcoRodovais highway PPP and subsidiary of multinational infrastructure company ASTM, will partner to install 4G coverage along 850 kilometres of highway

The OPEC Fund has signed with the AFC a $50 million loan to support the latter’s infra project financing in Sub-Saharan Africa

Broadband provider Quickline has rolled out 1 Gbps fibre broadband to rural communities across the north of England

Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani-controlled Reliance Group units – Reliance Industries and Reliance Jio Infocomm – are seeking $3 billion in loans split into US dollars and Japanese yen tranches

European data centre business DATA4 Group has acquired a German site to develop a 180MW data centre campus

nLighten, a portfolio company of I Squared Capital, will expand into Germany with edge data centres across 10 locations

Iceland's largest data centre operator atNorth is set to acquire a data facility in Finland from Tallberg Group for an undisclosed sum

ING has this month appointed structured finance specialist David Mesia to head of energy and structured finance

Enel has extended the negotiation period for the sale of its Romanian operations to Greek utility Public Power Corporation

DigitalBridge, through its operating subsidiary, has acquired AMP Capital’s global infrastructure equity investment management business in a $316 million deal