América Móvil and Telxius Collaborate to Build New Submarine Cable in the Pacific Telxius and América Móvil Press Release June 24, 2019 América Móvil and Telxius are collaborating to boost communication services in the Pacific Latin American region through a brand new submarine cable. The new system´s initial capacity will be 108 Tbps, with six [...]
Alberto Horcajo & Alessandro Talotta Join EllaLink Board EllaLink Press Release June 19, 2019 Dublin, Ireland - June 19, 2019 – EllaLink announced today that its main shareholder, the alternative investment fund manager Marguerite, has appointed Alberto Horcajo and Alessandro Talotta to the Board of Directors of EllaLink. Both Alberto and Alessandro have over 20 years’ experience in [...]
Telia Carrier and Telxius Announce Major Network Capacity Agreement Telxius Press Release March 13, 2019 Stockholm/Madrid – Telia Carrier and Telxius announced today a landmark agreement for multi-terabit capacity services combining transatlantic capacity from Telxius in the new 6,600 km MAREA cable system and Telia Carrier’s European backbone network. The combination of Telia Carrier’s extensive [...]
Telxius and Amazon Web Services Reach Agreement on Transatlantic Subsea Cable Marea Telxius Press Release January 19, 2019 Telxius and Amazon Web Services (AWS) sign an agreement for the cloud service provider’s use of a fibre pair on transatlantic subsea cable MAREA, the highest capacity submarine cable in the world. MAREA’s features include high capacity, [...]
Telxius Operates the Two Highest Capacity Submarine Cables in the World Telxius Press Release December 10, 2018 MAREA and BRUSA have been opened for business in 2018 MAREA’s initial estimated capacity was 160 Tbps (now upgradable to 200 Tbps) and BRUSA’s is 136 Tbps These two cables provide the lowest latency between Europe and the [...]
Puerto Rico eyeing USD 130 mln undersea cable project By Telecompaper October 8, 2018 The Puerto Rican government is planning to roll out an underwater fibre optic cable across the island to help its infrastructure withstand future natural disasters, reports local daily El Nuevo Dia, citing governor Ricardo Rosello. In the wake of last year’s [...]
Telefonica Considers Fixed Network Sale By Mobile World Live July 5, 2018 Telefonica is reportedly mulling the sale of part of its fixed line network in Spain, as the company looks to lower debt and boost declining stock market value. Sources cited by Spanish publication El Confidencial said the company’s board of directors proposed selling [...]
Telxius Opens New Network Operations Centre In Lima By Telecompaper June 4, 2018 Telefonica’s infrastructure subsidiary Telxius has inaugurated a new operations centre for its international submarine cable network in the district of Miraflores in Peru’s capital Lima. Described as one of the most advanced cable monitoring centres in the world, the plant will oversee [...]
By Telecompaper November 14, 2017 Telefonica has announced that private equity firm KKR exercised the previously agreed call option over 38 million shares of its infrastructure subsidiary Telxius (representing 15.2 percent of its share capital) for EUR 484.5 million. As a result of this operation and together with the 24.8 percent stake it acquired last month, KKR [...]
By Telecompaper October 25, 2017 Telefonica has completed the transfer of 24.8 percent of the shares of its infrastructure subsidiary Telxius to private equity firm KKR for EUR 790.5 million as part of a deal reached in February to sell up to 40 percent of Telxius to KKR for a total of EUR 1.275 billion after receiving [...]
