Myanmar unbundles New Yangon City plan
The Government of Myanmar would split up the Yangon New City project into smaller projects for tender, revealed Minister U Thaung Tunon in an investment seminar on 29 July
KKR makes TIM ‘last-mile grid’ offer
Fund manager KKR has made a binding offer for a stake in Telecom Italia’s last-mile telecoms grid
Warburg Pincus and DTCP take Community Fibre stake
Investors Warburg Pincus and DTCP have acquired a controlling stake in Community Fibre from shareholders Amber Infrastructure and RPMI Railpen
Investor appetite for digital infrastructure
IJGlobal will tomorrow host a webinar focused on digital infrastructure, where we will delve into the international survey of investor appetite for this sector with our partner M&E Global Inc
Antin fund hits €6.5bn hard cap
Fund manager Antin has concluded fundraising on its fourth and largest fund to date, hitting its €6.5 billion hard cap
Details emerge on Bouygues FTTH financing
Bouygues Telecom in a JV with Vauban Infrastructure Partners has closed the €1.5 billion deal to roll out FTTH to medium density areas in France
Vodafone to IPO towerco in 2021
Vodafone Group is to launch an IPO of its tower infrastructure platform Vantage Towers in early 2021
Cellnex raises €4bn
Cellnex will raise €4 billion ($4.65 billion) through a share offering this week (July 2020), the largest such increase in capital in Europe this year.
UK infra bank proposed to replace EIB
Rishi Sunak, the UK chancellor, is said to be laying down the bare bones of a new infrastructure bank to fill the (dubious) gap left by the EIB which the UK will no longer have access to after Brexit
Indonesian satellite PPP to use SpaceX rocket
The Indonesian multifunction satellite PPP project – Satria Satellite – is due launch to space in 2023, using a rocket launcher made by US-based SpaceX, the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology announced this week in an online seminar. Meanwhile, IJGlobal can reveal further advisers mandated on the PPP
CBRE acquires data centre platform stake
CBRE Caledon has acquired a ‘significant’ minority stake in a newly-created data centre platform
Bouygues JV signs French FTTH contract
Bouygues Telecom and Vauban Infrastructure Partners – acting on behalf of the investment funds it manages – have entered into a JV to deliver FTTH across France
Novva starts developing hyperscale data center
CIM Group-owned Novva has started development on a 1.5 million square foot hyperscale data centre in Utah
Fund to acquire China data centre
A fund today agreed to acquire a 100% equity interest in the owner of a data centre development in southern China