Infranode closes MPY Telecom acquisition, Finland

Nordic infrastructure investor Infranode has closed the acquisition of Finnish owner and operator of digital core infrastructure MPY Telecom from MPY Cooperative for €75 million

GDOT hosts forum for broadband OMC project

Georgia Department of Transportation is hosting a virtual industry forum for the statewide broadband network operations, maintenance, and commercialization project

Nubank Colombia secures additional IFC funds

The Colombian unit of Brazil’s Nubank – a digital financial service provider – has received over $100 million in additional funds from the International Finance Corporation – complementing a loan of $150 million announced in January

Fibre merger becomes UK rural broadband leader

A merger between Macquarie Capital, Israel Infrastructure Fund and Tiger Infrastructure Partners’ fibre businesses has positioned Voneus as the UK’s foremost rural broadband provider

Irish fund backs Equitix infra initiative, Ireland

The Irish Strategic Investment Fund has provided €75 million to Equitix's new initiative to invest in private companies developing greenfield infrastructure projects in Ireland

Natixis hires head of M&A, SEA and India

Natixis Corporate & Investment Banking has appointed Abbas Rangwala as the head of M&A, Southeast Asia & India, a newly created role

Potential sale of offshore telecoms operator, Norway

UK-listed fund 3i Infrastructure and Danish pension fund ATP are considering the sale of Norwegian offshore telecoms networks operator Tampnet, IJGlobal has learned

Raxio’s Angola data center enters construction

Pan-African data centre operator Raxio Group has kicked-off construction on a 3MW data centre in the district of Cacuaco on the outskirts of Luanda

KKR requests deadline extension to bid for TIM's landline...

US investment company KKR has requested to extend the deadline to submit a bid for TIM's fixed network assets in Italy

EQT, PSP acquire Radius Global Infrastructure

Global investor EQT, along with the Public Sector Pension Investment Board, has acquired Radius Global Infrastructure in a deal valued at $3 billion

Princeton Digital commissions Jakarta data center

Princeton Digital Group has commissioned a 22MW hyperscale data center facility worth $150 million in Indonesia

CityFibre awards first Project Gigabit contracts, UK

UK full-fibre network CityFibre has awarded the build partners for the first of its 4 planned roll outs under the government’s £5 billion Building Digital UK Project Gigabit scheme

Zegona in talks to take Vodafone Spain

UK telco Zegona Communications announced today that it is in talks to acquire Vodafone's Spanish business

CIMIC’S UGL acquires Oz telecom firm

UGL has acquired Skybridge, an Australian telecommunications company

BPI elects Zobel as director

Fernando Zobel de Ayala has been elected as a director of the board of the Bank of the Philippine Islands