The City of Fremont has awarded SmartWave Technoloigies and Astound Business Solutions the contract to develop its broadband project

UK broadband provider Rural Broadband Solutions has rebranded as Global Connectivity ahead of an investment of £75 million from Tiger Infrastructure Partners

Ardian Infrastructure has promoted Federica Vasquez to managing director in its Milan office

The USTDA has signed a grant to local internet service provider GBS to support a rural internet access expansion project in the DRC

Pan-European edge data centre provider AtlasEdge is set to acquire Germany’s independent data centre provider, Datacenter One, for an undisclosed sum

A consortium led by KKR is set to acquire a 30% stake in Telenor's newly established passive fibre infrastructure company, Telenor Fiber, in Norway

John Laing has strengthened its US & Canada teams with the hiring of Kara Vague and Richard Kim as director and associate director respectively

US-based data centre company EdgeConneX has partnered with Aboitiz InfraCapital and is planning to build a network of hyperscale data centres across the Philippines

Foresight Group is set to invest in full fibre technology business Fibre & Wireless Networks – with a deal expected imminently, IJGlobal understands

Digital infrastructure company Equinix has announced plans to set up a $74 million international business exchange data centre in Jakarta, Indonesia

Antin Infrastructure Partners’ fifth flagship fund has held first close, raising more than €5 billion to invest in infrastructure opportunities

Infracapital, the equity investment arm of M&G, has secured an €895 million debt facility from 4 commercial lenders to fund its fibre roll-out in rural Germany

NIBC Infrastructure Partners – lead arranger for the short-term loan facilities for Open Dutch Fiber’s fibre-to-the-premises roll-out – will increase the financing of the business

A limited partner has passed a milestone to allocate capital to a debt fund in Asia targeting to raise $750 million

TriStruX – Huron Capital’s Infrastructure Services Platform – is set to acquire fibre specialist Hess Broadband