This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Dr. Mike Flaxman
Telco providers face several challenges in network planning. New technologies require many more antennas to be more precisely placed and configured than ever before. For example, this requires delivering 17 million microcells and towers by 2025 – an order of magnitude more than historic deployments. While the demand for data and the growth of connected devices continues to create a need for more … [visit site to read more]
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A subsea deployment, two data center buildouts, and some Ethernet for AI: … [visit site to read more]
Less than a year after we reported that Brazilian data centre firm Odata had opened its first Mexican data centre to add to its operations in Brazil, Colombia and Chile, it has been sold.
Aligned Data Centers, a technology infrastructure company, offering innovative, sustainable and adaptive scale data centres and build-to-scale solutions for global hyperscale and enterprise customers, has completed the acquisition of the Latin American data centre provider.
The completion comes five months after the deal was unveiled and four months after it was okayed by Brazil’s antitrust agency Cade.
It’s a very big acquisition. In fact the transaction positions Aligned among the largest private data centre operators in the Americas, with a footprint spanning in excess of 2.5 GW of critical capacity across over 40 data centres at full buildout. Odata will not disappear, however. It will now operate as Odata, an Aligned Data Centers Company, led by CEO Ricardo Alário.
With operational facilities strategically located across Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico, as well as additional data centres currently under development across Latin America, Odata is among the fastest growing hyperscale data centre platforms in the region.
An important factor, and one that Aligned weighed heavily when evaluating its acquisition, is Odata’s long-standing investment in renewable energy. This is said to be consistent with Aligned’s environmental, social and governance (ESG) objectives. In fact, Odata recently acquired a minority stake in Omega Energia’s 212 MW wind farm, located in the northeast region of Brazil. Currently, approximately 85 to 90% of the energy consumed by the company’s data centres is renewable.
There was a bit of consolidation in the last mile yesterday in the northeast. Archtop Fiber says it has entered into a stock purchase agreement with Momentum Telecom to acquire Warwick Valley Telephone (WVT), continuing their regional expansion in upstate New York. … [visit site to read more]
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The slightly confusing saga of Brazilian operator Oi continues. It is now seeking a huge sum of money in emergency funding.
In other words, the judicial process involving the recovery plan of Brazilian service provider Oi, which seemed to be over in December, may be far from finished.
Now Oi plans to seek emergency funding of at least 4 billion reais (about US$805.3 million) as well as to renegotiate debts.
The company’s board approved the plan last Friday. We may have to wait for more precise details of the measures Oi and its subsidiaries will adopt in order to strengthen its capital structure. However, the emergency funding will, one assumes, support the company while it carries out some of the measures provided for in the plan, including a capital increase and divestment of assets.
It has already sold a number of assets but, according to local news source TeleTime, it may now sell almost everything else, including its corporate arm, Oi Solucoes and its stake in fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) wholesale unit V.tal.
Quoted in the same news source, the company apparently says that the plan reflects the negotiations held to date with its main creditors and other stakeholders for debt restructuring. It adds: “We continue negotiations with financial creditors and other unsecured creditors regarding the specific terms and conditions.”
Oi has been under judicial protection since mid-March this year. Its judicial reorganization plan was granted by Rio de Janeiro’s 7th Corporate Court. However, as we reported at the time, the company’s board also had a 60-day deadline to submit to regulator Anatel various details of cash flow, sources of funds and financial forecasts and, notably, “justification for the differences between what was realized and what was foreseen”.
