The Brazilian ministry of communications has signed contracts with the winners of last month’s 5G auction, formally authorising 10 companies to roll out 5G coverage in the country

Australian telecom giants Optus and Telstra have taken the lion’s share of new 900 MHz spectrum, having spent over A$2 billion on the latest auction

PwC has been selected as an adviser to assist in corporate strategy and capacity development to foster PPPs in Bangladesh

Meridiam has this week been awarded the DBFOM contract to roll out fibre networks in Liezen, Austria

Ancala has recently begun marketing its third fund with a target set of €1.2 billion

Garrigues has promoted Francisco Noguera to partner at its Bogotá office

Vantage Data Centers and its lead investor DigitalBridge have completed the acquisition of the PCCW data centre business

Latin America-focused infrastructure investor Patria Investments has completed its acquisition of Moneda Asset Management, a Santiago-based asset manager with over $5 billion of assets

Digital Edge, backed by real assets investment manager Stonepeak, completed the $230 million acquisition of 5 data centres assets on the main island of Honshu from Itochu Techno-Solutions

Afreximbank has signed with Senegal’s sovereign wealth fund FONSIS an MoU to foster infra development in the West African state

I Squared has completed its acquisition of KIO Networks, Mexico’s largest operator of data centres

Papua New Guinea achieved a milestone in its reform of state-owned enterprises by publishing an amended law in the National Gazette

Roberto Salas Guzmán has been appointed to lead the Ecuadorean government’s new PPP office

Investment manager Asterion Industrial Partners, an independent firm focused on European infrastructure in the mid-market, has completed the acquisition of 100% of Retelit

The chief financial officer of UBS, Kirt Gardner, has today announced his intention to step down from the role “to pursue other opportunities” and will be leaving the bank next May