DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Telecoms & 5G, Alex Alley
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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Telecom Italia agrees on data center spin off for 2021
The data centers will finally be free
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Liquid Telecom raises $307m for business expansion
Including from a UK government-backed investment agency
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Telecom Egypt to build 'country's largest' colocation data center in 2021
In a smart village near Cairo
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DataBank invests $30m into EdgePresence to leverage modular portfolio
EdgePresence operates across eight US states
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American Tower launches Edge data center in Austin, Texas
This follows the company's Edge rollouts in Colorado, last month
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Israel awards 5G contracts to Pelephone, Hot Mobile, and Partner Comms
All three operators have now launched their 5G services commercially
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Nokia scores BT 5G supply contract, squeezing out Huawei
Nokia will gradually replace Huawei's kit throughout BT's network
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AWS and Verizon announce three Edge Wavelength locations
Bethesda signed up with Wavelength before it was acquired by Microsoft
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Ericsson buys US wireless WAN company Cradlepoint in $1.1bn 5G push
Cradlepoint will operate as an Ericsson subsidiary after the deal closes
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FirstLight takes over KINBER's fiber assets in Pennsylvania, US
The company is looking to be a big fiber player in the Northeast US
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Ireland's Eir remains committed to keeping Huawei in its 5G network
Until the EU says otherwise...
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DE-CIX to build Internet exchange between three providers in Ruhr region, Germany
It'll be online later this year
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Report: Covid-19 hampers Zimbabwean billionaire's plan to sell Liquid Telecom stake
Liquid Telecom's owner Strive Masiyiwa has debts to pay
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Vodafone spins off telco tower assets as Vantage Towers
Will IPO on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange
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Huawei equips Cameroon gov't data center, helps Rain's South Africa 5G project
Huawei is at the helm of the continent's digitization
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Google invests $4.5bn in Reliance Jio in Digital India push
Google was looking to invest in Jio back in March
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FiberLight appoints its owner Jim Lynch as interim CEO
After Don MacNeil leaves for GTT
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Alphabet's Loon balloons up and floating over Kenya
Internet-by-balloon service gets its first commercial outing
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Telia Estonia to build solar plant to cut costs at its Laagri data center
Should be up and powering some of the data center by the end of summer
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Buyers bid for Telstra's Melbourne data center campus
Melbourne auction enters second phase as Telstra's money saving measures continue
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India's Airtel sells 25% of its data center arm to Carlyle Group
The proceeds will go to Bharti Airtel's Indian expansion plans
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Singapore finalizes 5G contract winners, Nokia and Ericsson named as suppliers
Three Singaporean telcos will build the networks with gear from Nokia and Ericsson
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Virgin Media UAE promotes Rob Beswick as MD to head regional 5G efforts
Beswick has worked at the branch for almost a decade
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Google plans Spanish cloud region, Telefónica partnership
Targeting 5G and Edge
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British man jailed for arson on Vodafone 4G mast (that he thought was 5G)
He convinced himself the telephone mast was somehow linked to Covid-19
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Canada's Bell and Telus drop Huawei, pick Ericsson and Nokia for 5G roll out
Another country dumps Huawei
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Canadian Supreme Court rules against Huawei CFO in extradition battle
The court battle will continue, Huawei says
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Colt Technology Services names Keri Gilder as CEO
Gilder will be replacing the current CEO, Carl Grivner