BDx Indonesia – a JV company of Big Data Exchange, PT Indosat Tbk and PT Aplikanusa Lintasarta – is planning a 100MW data centre campus on 12 acres of land acquired from PT Suryacipta Swadaya, a member of Suryainternusa Group

The Competition and Markets Authority has approved Cellnex’s acquisition of the UK telecoms tower assets of CK Hutchison Group following close of its sale of 1,100 UK sites to Wireless Infrastructure Group

Arizona has issued an RFP seeking a private partner to provide operations, maintenance and commercialisation services for its for middle-mile fibre infrastructure

Africa Mobile Networks will receive a $20 million loan investment from the BlueOrchard Sustainable Assets Fund and the OP Finnfund Global Impact Fund I to expand its mobile network coverage in rural Sub-Saharan Africa

Cabinet of Havering Council will proceed with the £5.3 billion East Havering data centre project, bringing Europe’s largest data facility to the borough

Mayer Brown has hired Emily Naughton as a partner based in Washington DC, along with associates Whitney Smith and Sarah Mernin

The Communication and Information Minister has inaugurated the construction of a data centre worth in West Java, funded by the French government

Vodafone is set to enter a strategic co-control partnership with a Global Infrastructure Partners and KKR-led consortium to invest in European telecoms business Vantage Towers

UK-based investor Pantheon Infrastructure has invested around €52.7 million in Asterion Industrial Partners’ interest in National Broadband Ireland – an Irish fiber-to-the-premises network developer and operator

Hong Kong-based real estate manager ESR Group has commenced the construction of its first 19.2MW data centre at Nanko Kita, Osaka, Japan

Five telecommunication companies have partnered to invest $300 million in a submarine cable in Southeast Asia to boost data capacity in the region and upgrade local capacities

French infrastructure giant Vinci has acquired Leicestershire-based telecoms support company HG Comms

EQT has appointed Suzanne Donohoe, Ricardo Reyes and Gustav Segeberg to its executive committee

Harmoni Towers – a portfolio company of Palistar Capital – has completed its previously announced acquisition of Parallel Infrastructure, a tower platform and build-to-suit provider

Pioneer Point Partners has promoted Edoardo Luciani to its partnership amid expansion of the wider team, including 2 hires in the investment team