Int’l Bytes: Scala, VOX, CityFibre, Sky, Ericsson

Four bits of news touching four continents:

Scala Data Centers is investing another $1.13B in its Tamboré campus in the São Paulo metro area. They have kicked off Phase 2, which will add 158MW of IT capacity, adding to two existing buildings as well as investing in three more plus a substation. The space is targeted toward hyperscale clients with a need for a major presence in Brazil and Latin America as a whole.

VOX Solutions has picked up a partner in the North African country of Libya. The mobile network Almadar Aljadid has signed an exclusive interworking agreement for voice and SMS traffic into their network. The arrangement will make it so that Almadar Aljadid will only accept international traffic from Vox Solutions The company has implemented its VOX-360 solution across 30 mobile operators globally thus far.

CityFibre has a major new FTTH partner over in the UK. Sky will be leveraging their footprint to offer its Full Fibre Broadband service starting in 2025. CityFibre now reaches 3.8M homes and expects that to expand to more than 8M in the next few years. Sky is also looking to take advantage of the 1.3M homes in hard-to-reach areas CityFibre is building out to via the UK government’s Project Gigabit Programme.

And Ericsson has sold off a piece of itself. They have announced a deal with Koch Equity Development LLC for iconectiv for $1B. iconective is based in New Jersey and provides network number portability and data exchange services, a business that Ericsson sees as non-core. The business came to Ericsson via the Telcordia purchase way back in 2012, and has been co-owned with Francisco partners for the past 7 years or so.

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Categories: Datacenter · FTTH · Mergers and Acquisitions · Telecom Equipment · VoIP