North European operator GlobalConnect said the Swedish Competition Authority has approved its acquisition of assets from Telenor Sweden, and that it has won an SD-WAN contract from the Church of Sweden. The Telenor deal can now go ahead in the first quarter of 2022 as planned. The contract from the Church of Sweden runs into hundreds of millions of kronor, it said.
GlobalConnect said it will provide SD-WAN infrastructure to the Church of Sweden, which is undertaking an update of its IT systems. The operator will supply the church with security, LAN and Wi-Fi as well as cloud connections.
The SD-WAN will provide more than 3,000 connections and the infrastructure will enable church staff to work from home securely. The church employs 22,000 people. The system will enable easy cloud service integration and will improve network monitoring and management.
GlobalConnect said the Competition Authority has approved its acquisition of Telenor Sweden’s Open Universe wholesale platform and its single dwelling unit (SDU) fibre assets, announced in November. This enables the takeover to go ahead in the first quarter of 2022 as planned. The deal concerns approximately 200,000 Open Universe ports and around 14,000 detached home connections.
