Russian IT firm Liberum Navitas has unveiled ambitious plans to erect a RUB48.6 billion (US$686.2 million) data centre network of 15 facilities across the country. The facilities, targeted at government agencies and commercial enterprises, will be located in the cities of Moscow, St. Petersburg, Murmansk, Kaliningrad, Sevastopol, Sochi, Volgograd, Nizhny Novgorod, Tyumen, N...

French telecommunications operator Orange S.A. (EPA: ORA) has announced the landing of the PEACE (Pakistan and East Africa Connecting Europe) submarine cable on the shores of Marseille ahead of the Q1 2022 launch. The telco is acting as the landing party for the route and will be in charge of extending the PEACE System to one of Interxion’s Marseille data centres where th...

Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company’s (EITC) has reported a 6.9% year-on-year (YoY) revenue growth for Q3 2021 as sales reached AED2,874 million (US$782 million). However, EBITDA retreated by 4.9% YoY to AED1,100 million and net profit declined 7.1% to AED283 million. The company said the drop in profit was due to its “ambitious investment programme” and...