Aferian buys yet more time, extending debt maturity deadline to March
GLOBAL 13 FEB

Aferian buys yet more time, extending debt maturity deadline to March

Aferian has announced yet another extension to the maturity deadline on its USD 16.5 million senior loan facility with Barclays Bank, Bank of Ireland and HSBC. The loan now needs to be paid back by 20 March, extended from 13 February under the previous grace period. The debt was originally due to expire in September 2025.

Odin takes over Nexxt managed services business
NETHERLANDS 13 FEB

Odin takes over Nexxt managed services business

Odin Group is acquiring the managed services business at Nexxt and integrating the activities with its subsidiary Previder. The takeover is expected to strengthen its market position in the semi-public sector in the Netherlands. It follows a strategic repositioning at Nexxt, which is making a clear distinction between its consultancy and managed services. Going forward it will focus on consulting, outsourcing and project services as a strategic IT partner for customers. The managed services fit better with

Econet Wireless Zimbabwe holds EGM on 26 February for vote on USD 0.50 per share exit offer
ZIMBABWE 12 FEB

Econet Wireless Zimbabwe holds EGM on 26 February for vote on USD 0.50 per share exit offer

Econet Wireless Zimbabwe said it is holding an EGM on 26 February to vote on proposals to voluntarily delist all 2.99 million of its ordinary shares from the Official List of the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE), on an exit offer, on an amendment to its articles of association, and on general authority for the directors. After the delisting, the shares will trade on the Over-The-Counter platform operated by the Victoria Falls Stock Exchange. The company is making a conditional exit offer of USD 0.50 per share

ATN International sells US wireless towers for USD 297 million
UNITED STATES 12 FEB

ATN International sells US wireless towers for USD 297 million

ATN International announced that subsidiary Commnet Wireless has signed an agreement to sell its network of 214 wireless towers across the Southwestern US, and related operations, to Everest Infrastructure Partners for up to USD 297 million in cash. ATN expects the deal to close initially in Q2 2026, generating gross proceeds of around USD 250-270 million. Transaction-related expenses, taxes and payments to minority tower business investors will account for 25-30 percent of gross proceeds.

UK fibre altnets Truespeed, Freedom Fibre announce merger
UNITED KINGDOM 12 FEB

UK fibre altnets Truespeed, Freedom Fibre announce merger

UK fibre altnets Truespeed Communications and Freedom Fibre have signed a merger agreement. This will create a group with a combined network footprint of more than 412,000 ready-for-service (RFS) premises and 70,00 customers across the NW, SW, West Midlands and East of England. 

IHS Towers sells stake in I-Systems fibre network back to TIM Brasil
BRAZIL 11 FEB

IHS Towers sells stake in I-Systems fibre network back to TIM Brasil

IHS Towers has agreed to sell its 51 percent share in the Brazilian optical fibre network provider I-Systems back to TIM Brasil, which already owns the other 49 percent. TIM said it will pay BRL 950 million for the shares, giving it full control of the fibre network to help grow its broadband business. 

Marvell closes XConn takeover
GLOBAL 11 FEB

Marvell closes XConn takeover

Marvell Technology has completed its USD 540 million cash-and-stock deal to absorb PCIe switching silicon provider XConn Technologies. XConn's engineering talent and technology assets will be integrated into Marvell's Ultra Accelerator Link (UALink) product roadmap, targeting scale-up switching in data centres migrating to larger, multi-rack deployments. 

Visma acquires Brazil's MaisMei
BRAZIL 11 FEB

Visma acquires Brazil's MaisMei

Business software provider Visma has acquired MaisMei, a Brazilian platform for individual micro entrepreneurs (MEIs), which serves 3.7 million customers. MaisMei's digital tools help simplify daily management, fiscal compliance, and sustainable growth for micro-entrepreneurs. This acquisition strengthens Visma's presence in Brazil, following its August 2025 acquisition of Conta Azul, a cloud ERP system for small businesses and accounting firms.

OADC acquires NTT Data data centres in South Africa
SOUTH AFRICA 11 FEB

OADC acquires NTT Data data centres in South Africa

NTT Data South Africa (previously known as Dimension Data) signed a six-year agreement with Open Access Data Centres (OADC), a WIOCC Group company, for OADC to acquire seven NTT Data data centres in South Africa. The centres were previously operated by Internet Solutions (IS). The seven data centres are in Bloemfontein, Cape Town, East London, Bryanston and Parklands in Johannesburg, Gqeberha and Umhlanga.

Kyivstar acquires digital prescriptions app Tabletki.ua
UKRAINE 11 FEB

Kyivstar acquires digital prescriptions app Tabletki.ua

Ukraine's Kyivstar Group has acquired the company Tabletki.ua for USD 160 million. Tabletki.ua is one of Ukraine's most widely used digital platforms for finding, comparing and reserving medicines and other products available at Ukrainian pharmacies. 

Paramount sweetens offer for Warner Bros takeover, extends public bid
GLOBAL 11 FEB

Paramount sweetens offer for Warner Bros takeover, extends public bid

Paramount has sweetened its offer for Warner Bros Discovery and again extended the public bid. In addition to the original bid of USD 30 cash per share, it is offering to pay an extra USD 0.25 per share for every quarter beyond 2026 that the deal does not close. In addition, it will pay the USD 2.8 billion break-up fee WBD would owe Netflix and provide additional financing guarantees.

NTT Docomo to absorb XR unit NTT Qonoq and wind up subsidiary
JAPAN 11 FEB

NTT Docomo to absorb XR unit NTT Qonoq and wind up subsidiary

NTT Docomo has announced it will transfer the XR business operated by its wholly owned subsidiary NTT Qonoq into Docomo and proceed with the liquidation of Qonoq. As part of the process, Docomo will assume full ownership of Qonoq's subsidiaries, NTT Qonoq Device and Gene, by taking over all shares previously held by Qonoq. The businesses currently provided by these subsidiaries will continue under Docomo's ownership.

AUSTRALIA 11 FEB

Aussie Broadband to acquire AGL's telco business in AUD 115 mln deal

Aussie Broadband has agreed to acquire the telecommunications business of AGL Energy, adding around 350,000 broadband and mobile services and 46,000 voice services to its customer base, as the operator moves to cement its position as one of Australia's largest NBN broadband providers. Under the agreement, Aussie Broadband will acquire AGL Telco and enter into a long-term exclusive partnership that will see AGL continue to sell telecommunications services under its own brand, while Aussie Broadband provides

JAPAN 11 FEB

NTT partners Sumitomo to expand domestic agricultural drones

Sumitomo Corporation and NTT e-Drone Technology have launched a marketing collaboration aimed at accelerating the adoption of domestically produced agricultural drones in Japan, following the transfer of development resources from agricultural drone company Nileworks. The collaboration, which began in February 2026, builds on a restructuring completed last year in which Nileworks' shareholders, including Sumitomo, decided to transfer its agricultural drone development assets to NTT e-Drone Technology.

CHILE 10 FEB

Telefonica sells Chilean unit to Millicom and NJJ for USD 1.215 bln

Millicom, owner of Tigo-branded operations across Latin America, and French investment firm NJJ Holding announced the joint acquisition of 100 percent of Telefonica's Chilean subsidiary for a total of USD 1.215 billion (equivalent to EUR 1.030 billion), confirming earlier reports. The deal marks Millicom's entry into a new market following its acquisition of Telefonica's units in Ecuador and Uruguay at the end of last year and the Spanish group's Colombian assets earlier this month.

SPAIN 10 FEB

Spain's Submer expands data centre infra offer with Radian Arc buy

Spanish data infrastructure company Submer, a specialist in liquid cooling technology, has announced the acquisition of Australia's Radian Arc Operations for an undisclosed sum. The transaction will extend Submer's reach from core data centres to edge computing as it builds a full-stack AI infrastructure business. Radian Arc, a provider of GPU cloud services, operates infrastructure-as-a-service platforms embedded within telecom networks worldwide.

SWEDEN 10 FEB

Bredband2 shares to cease trading at close of 23 February

Bredband2 has announced that the last day of trading in its shares on the First North exchange will be 23 February, following a delisting decision by Nasdaq Stockholm. This is because Telia Company now owns 96.7 percent of the in Bredband2 following settlement of Telia's offer.

UNITED KINGDOM 10 FEB

Macquarie hires advisers to manage sale of Kcom - report

Macquarie is understood to have appointed New York-based investment bank Perella Weinberg Partners to manage the sale of Kcom, UK broadband provider operating in the Hull area, reports UK newspaper 'The Times'. Macquarie is under pressure from lenders to recover as much of its initial investment in Kcom as possible after its trading performance was hit rising competition in recent months. The plan is to start wooing potential buyers in the second quarter of 2026.

UKRAINE 10 FEB

Lifecell objects to proposed Kyivstar, Vodafone towers venture

A proposed passive network sharing deal by operators Kyivstar and Vodafone Ukraine could threaten competition in the Ukrainian telecom market, rival operator Lifecell has warned. It issued a statement calling for careful consideration by regulatory authorities of the deal. The company said the alliance could lead to monopolisation and structural imbalance of the market, as well as reduce investment, innovation and the quality of services to end-users. Such structural changes may also limit the attractivenes

GLOBAL 10 FEB

Airspan targets 25-30% annual growth as 2025 revenues lift by more than a fifth

Airspan is guiding for 25-30 percent revenue growth in the current fiscal year after achieving a 20 percent lift in 2025, driven by strong fundamentals in all three business segments. Group sales topped USD 115 million in FY25, and Airspan's Q4 turnover lifted by a similar proportion to USD 45 million amid solid traction in Airspan's In-Building, Open RAN, and Air-to-Ground businesses.

MIDDLE EAST 9 FEB

NTT Data acquires Zero&One to accelerate cloud growth across Middle East

NTT Data has acquired Zero&One, an Amazon Web Services (AWS) premier tier services partner in the MENA region. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Dubai, Zero&One is a leading regional cloud consultancy, NTT said. The company holds nine AWS competencies and was one of the first in the region to achieve the AWS Generative AI Competency. In 2025, Zero&One was named AWS's MENA Consulting Partner of the Year and received the Rising Star Partner of the Year (Consulting) and Design Partner of the Year awards at

RUSSIAN FEDERATION 9 FEB

Chachava raises stake in Yandex to 20%

Russian businessman Alexander Chachava has raised his stake in the internet company Yandex to 19.69 percent of shares. Chachava acquired a 3.72 percent stake from minority shareholders. His shares gives him 20.42 percent of votes in the shareholders meeting.

UNITED KINGDOM 6 FEB

VodafoneThree comes 6th in UK Top Employers list

VodafoneThree has been named a Top Employer in the UK by the Top Employers Institute, coming 6th out of all assessed employers in the UK. The employers were assessed on various areas of the employee experience, from learning and development, to well-being and engagement. 

ITALY 6 FEB

FiberCop acquires Genoa and Padua properties

Italian wholesale operator FiberCop has announced the acquisition of two strategic properties located in the northern cities of Genoa and Padua from Central Sicaf, a company owned by Covivio. The buildings already serve as operational sites for FiberCop and are two of the main Points of Presence (PoPs) of the operator's national telecommunications backbone.

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Background

9 FEB 01:54

The week in telecoms: hyperscalers vie for capex crown, Telenor and Vodafone profit from smaller footprints

2 FEB 00:45

The week in telecoms: Verizon sparks fears of US price war, Apple beats Samsung in Q4, Telekom ramps up fibre marketing

26 JAN 00:31

The week in telecoms: Netflix and Ericsson all about cash, EU sketches out rip-and-replace and copper transition plans

22 JAN 14:28

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