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Capital expenditure by the hyperscale data centre companies is growing fast, reports Synergy Research Group. Five companies dominate the market, with 70% of spending, and the whole hyperscale business is focused on the US and China [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Metaswitch has acquired OpenCloud, telecoms software innovator OpenCloud, enabling the cloud communications provider to further accelerate mobile virtualisation and offer pure-play software VoLTE solution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise (ALE) has appointed Jack Chen as CEO, replacing acting CEO Jeff Ma. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The government of Myanmar has given telecoms operators just one week to show interest in taking part in the country's fourth mobile licence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Thailand's telecoms regulator plans to bring forward the date for its second auction of 4G mobile spectrum to November 12, according to local reports. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The UAE telecoms market is said to have grown by 12.32% to almost $9 billion (Dh32.8 billion) this year compared to almost $8 billion (Dh29.2 billion) last year. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Bahamas Utilities Regulation and Competition Authority (URCA) has postponed a mobile spectrum auction scheduled for this week, according to local reports. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Spanish infrastructure firm Abertis will spin off its telecoms business into a publicly listed company with a value of €4 billion, The Financial Times reports. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Telecom Italia Sparkle has revealed a partnership with mobile inter-carrier network and clearing service provider Starhome Mach, to offer Data Clearing and Big Data solutions to its mobile operator customers worldwide. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

British regulator Ofcom said today that it will undertake an "overarching review of the UK's digital communications market", in a bid to ensure that the demands of enterprises and consumers are being met. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With operators under more pressure then ever before to innovate in order to get ahead of market demand, facilities dedicated to innovation have been cropping up in abundance over the last 18 months. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Qualcomm Technologies has today revealed the extension of LTE to unlicensed spectrum (LTE-U), in a bid to help operators meet the ever-increasing demand for mobile data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

UK regulator Ofcom has launched a consultation to determine whether a new obligation to extend mobile phone coverage should affect operators' annual spectrum licence fees. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Capacity talks with Dora Mejia, VP of sales and business development at NewCom International. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Tata Communications has today launched its RoamPulse platform; a real-time roaming intelligence solution designed to enable mobile operators to offer a better roaming experience to their customers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Early images from the conference venue. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Jamaica is the third-largest of the Caribbean islands and has a small and open economy. Despite its relative political stability, rich culture and successful tourist industry, it has long struggled with low economic growth and high levels of crime, poverty and public debt. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Swedish vendor Ericsson has teamed up with the Chinese Academy of ICT (CAICT) for the research and development of 5G. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

How can carriers help the mining community streamline operations and drive revenues? Alex Hawkes takes a look at some of the companies that have made the step beyond being basic connectivity providers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Korean innovator SK Telecom has reportedly joined forces with Samsung Electronics for the deployment of network functions virtualisation (NFV) technologies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Thai operator AIS, France's Qualcomm and Chinese vendor Huawei have collaborated for the successful testing of high-speed 3G on a commercial network in Bangkok, Thailand. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Telefónica plans to reduce its investment in its fibre-optic network in Spain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Telkom is considering a sale of mobile towers in South Africa, according to Bloomberg. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Swiss telecoms company Sunrise Communications raised $2.2 billion (2 billion Swiss francs) in a strong trading debut on the SIX Swiss Exchange on Friday. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

DE-CIX North America has today started the process of becoming Open-IX-certified by signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Open-IX Association (OIX). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has proposed regulating internet service as a public utility to ensure so-called net neutrality, or an open internet. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

XConnect has acquired the assets of German number and triple-play portability service provider Flexagon. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

China Telecom's cloud computing branch, CTCC, has partnered with Alcatel-Lucent's Nuage Networks for the delivery of public cloud services via the solution provider's SDN technology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

BT has finalised a £12.5 billion deal to acquire EE from Deutsche Telekom and Orange after weeks of exclusive negotiations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Norway's competition authority has approved TeliaSonera's acquisition of Tele2's Norwegian operations, reversing an earlier decision to block the deal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

France's Orange is considering the acquisition of a number of Bharti Airtel's African assets, in a bid to strengthen its business in the region, people close to the matter told Bloomberg. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Italian operator Wind has begun exclusive talks to sell its mobile towers to Spain's Abertis, reports Reuters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Zayo Group is to extend its European long-haul network offering to Dublin, Ireland, as well as three new cities in the UK: Manchester, Birmingham and Bristol. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Hurricane Electric has added a new PoP at Global Switch Singapore, its second in the country and fifth in east Asia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Dimension Data is to hire an additional 300 data centre experts over the next 18 months. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Federal Communications Commission is set to propose net neutrality rules that will ensure equal access to the internet. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

NTT Communications has selected Fortinet's security platform to support its cloud managed security services for enterprise customers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Vodafone is set to launch home broadband in the UK, in its first move into the multi-play market, the Financial Times reports. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Capacity brings you the latest mergers and acquisitions in the wholesale arena. If you have any deals you'd like us to share, please tweet us @capacitymag or email editorial@capacitymedia.com. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Egypt's Global Telecom has sold its 51% stake in Algerian mobile operator Djezzy to the Algerian National Investment Fund for $2.6 billion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Inmarsat has launched its second Global Xpress (GX) satellite, Inmarsat-5 F2. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The German telecoms regulator has opened a frequency auction for spectrum in the 700MHz frequency band. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Spain's Telefónica has acquired a 3% stake in digital services firm Indra, according to local reports. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sureyya Ciliv, chief executive at Turkish mobile operator Turkcell, is to leave his position as of January 31, 2015. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Allied Fiber is to provide dark fibre access in the US for Telefónica in a landmark 20 year agreement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The 2015 Pacific Telecommunications Council (PTC) has elected its board of governors and advisory council. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

BICS and Openmind Networks have today revealed the launch of a hosted RCS (rich communications services) solution for operators. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Innovation and convergence present opportunities for development across the Caribbean, but they have also highlighted the region's regulatory limitations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]