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

Thailand's Gulf Energy Development will acquire 100% of THCOM shares from InTouch Holdings, the parent firm of the country's biggest telecom operator Advanced Info Service through a share purchase worth Bt4.47 billion

Cordiant Digital Infrastructure has received final clearance for its acquisition of Polish multi-asset digital infra platform Emitel from funds managed by Astatine Investment Partners

Highlands County in Florida has issued an RFP seeking a public or private partner to DBFOM a fibre optic middle-mile network supporting high-speed broadband internet