TIM sale postponed

The sale of a minority stake in Telecom Italia’s last-mile grid has been postponed at the request of the Italian Government

KKR Asia fundraising surges

Commitments to global alternative asset manager KKR’s Asia Pacific infrastructure platform have increased 43% during Q2 2020

Rural fibre capital raise launching soon

A capital raise for a rural fibre company in the UK will launch in the next fortnight, IJInvestor has learned

DFI considers Kyrgyz non-sovereign loan

A development finance institution is evaluating whether to provide a loan to Kyrgyzstan’s largest private broadband operator

Myanmar unbundles New Yangon City plan

The Government of Myanmar would split up the Yangon New City project into smaller projects for tender, revealed Minister U Thaung Tunon in an investment seminar on 29 July

KKR makes TIM ‘last-mile grid’ offer

Fund manager KKR has made a binding offer for a stake in Telecom Italia’s last-mile telecoms grid

Warburg Pincus and DTCP take Community Fibre stake

Investors Warburg Pincus and DTCP have acquired a controlling stake in Community Fibre from shareholders Amber Infrastructure and RPMI Railpen

Investor appetite for digital infrastructure

IJGlobal will tomorrow host a webinar focused on digital infrastructure, where we will delve into the international survey of investor appetite for this sector with our partner M&E Global Inc

Antin fund hits €6.5bn hard cap

Fund manager Antin has concluded fundraising on its fourth and largest fund to date, hitting its €6.5 billion hard cap

Details emerge on Bouygues FTTH financing

Bouygues Telecom in a JV with Vauban Infrastructure Partners has closed the €1.5 billion deal to roll out FTTH to medium density areas in France

Vodafone to IPO towerco in 2021

Vodafone Group is to launch an IPO of its tower infrastructure platform Vantage Towers in early 2021

Cellnex raises €4bn

Cellnex will raise €4 billion ($4.65 billion) through a share offering this week (July 2020), the largest such increase in capital in Europe this year.

UK infra bank proposed to replace EIB

Rishi Sunak, the UK chancellor, is said to be laying down the bare bones of a new infrastructure bank to fill the (dubious) gap left by the EIB which the UK will no longer have access to after Brexit

Indonesian satellite PPP to use SpaceX rocket

The Indonesian multifunction satellite PPP project – Satria Satellite – is due launch to space in 2023, using a rocket launcher made by US-based SpaceX, the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology announced this week in an online seminar. Meanwhile, IJGlobal can reveal further advisers mandated on the PPP