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

APN, KPG secure €700m for Dutch fibre rollout

A JV of Dutch pension fund APG and AMS-listed telecom company KPN has secured €700 million in debt to fund fibre rollout in rural Netherlands

GuarantCo supports Pakistani credit guarantor

A member of the Private Infrastructure Development Group provided a roughly $50 million facility to a Pakistani credit guarantor to address gaps in the local infrastructure financing market through more use of credit guarantees