The Digital Digest: EE's new spectrum; Ethiopia's lessons from Myanmar; cloud spending on the rise; and why we are at the start of a revolution

Season 2, episode 15 is presented by deputy editor Melanie
Mingas, and features editor-at-large Alan Burkitt-Gray, senior
reporter Natalie Bannerman and special guest Simon Ford, AVP for
the EMEA region at CyrusOne.


In this episode of the Digital Digest, we roundup the biggest
stories of the week from OTT partnerships to satellites and
subsea cables.


In telecoms, Natalie covers the news that AWS has secured a
public cloud contract with the a leading OTT and in Alaska,
Quintillion is connecting its Arctic ground station to Equinix’s
Seattle data centre.


Elsewhere, BT's mobile subsidiary, EE, has launched new 5G
spectrum and Aryaka has acquired SASE provider Secucloud.


Alan explains why the successful bidders for Ethiopia’s telecoms
licences will not be restricted to using Ethio Telecom's
infrastructure – and why there could be lessons to learn from
Myanmar. While in satellites, OneWebis in ‘advanced’ talks with
its next big investor and Starlink has received 500,000
pre-orders, according to Elon.


In the world of data centres, Natalie brings us the latest on
Green Mountain's new land parcel in Norway and American Tower's
Atlanta extension. Over at Ascenty, data centres across Latam are
now connected to Seaborn's network; EdgeConneX is expanding
across six US cities; and two new pieces of research have found
cloud infrastructure spendis increasing by 35% a year.


Joining this week's conversation, we also welcome Simon Ford, AVP
for Europe, the Middle East and Africa at CyrusOne. Simon
explains why we're at the start of a revolution and how it links
to data centre capacity, carbon neutrality and the rise of the
data centre REIT.