Cogent Communications Holdings

Restructuring · EMEA

Avanti Communications is divesting its Hylas-3 satellite payload to reduce geostationary exposure and close out its debt-fueled GEO expansion strategy

Leadership Change · EMEA

Usman Javaid, current chief product and marketing officer of Orange Business, has been appointed as the next AI chief, succeeding Steve Jarrett effective 1 September 2026. Javaid will drive Orange's strategy to derive €600+ million in value from AI by 2028, with focus on agentic AI implementations.

Geographic Expansion · EMEA

nLighten completed a major £100 million refurbishment of its Bristol data centre to support AI-ready infrastructure, nearly doubling the site's AI-ready power capability. This is part of a broader UK edge data centre network modernisation to address regional compute demand constraints outside London.

Ma Activity · EMEA

Airtel received shareholder approval (nearly 100%) to consolidate stake in Airtel Africa via share swap, increasing effective holding from current level to 79%

Partnership · EMEA

Mavenir partnered with Virgin Media O2 on a successful proof-of-concept for network-based personalized audio technology, positioning themselves as innovators in AI-enabled core network services

Partnership · EMEA

Oriole Networks, a UCL spinout founded in 2023, announced first commercial deployment of its PRISM photonic networking platform with AMD as part of UK government's ARIA Scaling Inference Lab, moving from validation to full-scale deployment.