US-based Zayo’s latest move to bolster its European footprint will look to meet rising demands for capacity and connectivity, as the company contends with a stalled US stock performance. The infrastructure specialist opened its first data centre in the London metro area in April, and this new plan will include further development of its fibre networks in that market as well as in Amsterdam, Dublin and Paris. With the largest independent portfolio of high-quality dark fibre in the US, Zayo is poised to...

As cable companies launch their own mobile services in the US, they have sent a message about what spectrum they plan to rely on to meet their wireless ambitions. Altice USA, Charter Communications and Comcast, some of the bigger players in the cable/satellite space, will not be bidding in the FCC’s first-ever auction of high-frequency millimetre-wave (mmWave) airwaves, slated to kick off in mid-November. If Charter and Comcast had registered, it would have...