Telefónica completes Costa Rica exit
Telefónica has closed the sale of its Costa Rican unit to Liberty Latin America for $538 million
Nexera locks in debt for Polish fibre rollout
Polish utility Nexera has today secured PLN 1 billion in debt from 5 lenders for a project to develop fibre-to-the-home infrastructure across 5 regions in Poland
India's first green data centre signs MoU
Gurgaon-based ReNew Power signed an MoU to supply captive renewable energy to RackBank Datacenters
Offers submitted for fibre business capital raise
Offers have been submitted on a capital raise for a UK fibre network, which has a price of £100 million-plus in equity expected to be sold down
Second Ethiopian telecom licence to launch
The government of Ethiopia will launch the tender for the second telecom licence later this month (August) and is currently finalising the RFP documents
Equitix sinks £75m in UK fibre business
Equitix has made a £75 million investment in UK fibre business Grain Connect through its latest fund
EIB extends loan to Italian digital infra operator
The European Investment Bank has agreed to extend a €250 million loan to Italian wireless network infrastructure operator Inwit which will be used to develop the company’s assets in the country
ESR Cayman to acquire ARA
Hong Kong-listed ESR Cayman agreed to acquire a 100% stake in Singaporean asset manager ARA Asset Management for $5.2 billion
Asian LP mulls commitment to DI fund
An infrastructure financier is likely to allocate $150 million to a fund investing in data centres and digital infrastructure in Asia
Macquarie takes €2.12bn Open Fiber stake
Macquarie Asset Management has finalised an agreement with Enel to acquire a 40% equity interest in Open Fiber for €2.12 billion
KKR drops out of Oz telecom deal
KKR has this week reportedly dropped out of the bidding war for the sale of Singtel’s Australian mobile telecom tower operator Optus
Axiata in talks to take over Link Net
Malaysia-based Axiata Group has made an offer to acquire a 66.3% stake in Indonesian internet service and cable television provider LinkNet
Bidders close in on CityFibre stake
Three bidders are said to be closing in on a £500 million ($696 million) deal to acquire an equity slice of London broadband business CityFibre
India data centres to get $1bn boost
A Mumbai-headquartered data centre developer signed agreements with 3 state governments to invest $1 billion in the industry’s development