Dorchester County Government has reached a $17.1 million P3 agreement with Home Telecom and Palmetto Rural Telephone Cooperative to expand high-speed internet access to the western part of the county

Singaporean data centre company SpaceDC has partnered with China-based Centrin Data to provide data centres and services in China

Patrizia Infrastructure – a division of investment manager Patrizia AG – has started construction on its Rancho Cordova FiberCity network in California

UBS has confirmed the appointments of Nick Brown and Samson Lo as co-heads of Asia Pacific M&A offering, as the Swiss bank restructures its leadership team

InfraVia has closed its fifth flagship infrastructure product at the hard cap of €5 billion

The Philippines government has released the first draft of the revised build-operate-transfer law, allowing more sectors to implement projects under the PPP model but requiring a more detailed proposal

BAM PPP has today formally rebranded as Invesis just ahead of launching a new portfolio of project with partner PGGM Infrastructure Fund

PE firm Oak Hill Capital is set to acquire a controlling interest in Greenlight Networks through its Oak Hill Capital Partners VI fund

Bouygues Telecom and Vauban Infrastructure Partners are in advanced talks with lenders to arrange a debt package for the recently unveiled Société de Développement de la Fibre Au Service des Territoires FTTH project in France

Telecoms companies MásMóvil and Orange Spain are in negotiations to merge their Spanish interests through a 50-50 JV, valuing the proposed entity at €19.6 billion

Philippines telco Converge ICT has joined the consortium that is developing a submarine cable system connecting Southeast Asia, southern China, and Hong Kong

Singapore government plans to launch a tender for energy-efficient data centre pilot projects by Q2, following a 3-year moratorium on developing new data centres

Engineering consultancy Mott MacDonald has named Mark Enzer as its newest executive adviser

Peruvian president Pedro Castillo has named Nicolás Bustamante as the country’s new minister for transport and communications following the resignation of the previous incumbent last month

DataBank has completed its $670 million acquisition of CyrusOne’s 4 Houston data centres, taking its portfolio to over 65 facilities, the largest edge infrastructure footprint in the country