Avanti Communications

Restructuring · EMEA

Cogent Communications is under investor investigation by Pomerantz LLP, suggesting potential legal/financial issues or misleading disclosures

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.

Partnership · EMEA

Telenet expanded its existing partnership with Netcracker Technology to handle BSS (Business Support Systems) elements for SME and large enterprise customers, consolidating B2B and B2C operations on a single platform covering revenue, commerce, customer, and service orchestration.

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