The Digital Digest: mixed fortunes in satellite; a new sustainable data centre in Moscow; and lots of new tower projects in Europe; plus Alan's dinner date with Intel

This week the Digital Digest team covers towers, satellites, data
centres and subsea cables.


Kicking off the episode, Alan tells us about Starlink's latest
activities and the rescue of Avanti, while the World Bank has
weighed in on Ethiopia's telecoms liberalisation.


Elsewhere in telecoms, Natalie talks about Ocean Networks' $300m
Caribbean Express subsea cable project and Sinch'sacquisition of
Inteliquent. Meanwhile, Vantagehas expanded its tower portfolio
and global internet capacity increased 35% in 2020, with video
calling not far behind.


In the world of data centres, Abigail explains the impact of the
increased demand on data centres in Africa, and brings us the
story behind Compute North's $25m growth capital funding;
IXcellerate's plans to build a sustainable data centre campus in
Moscow; and Teledatais launching its fourth data centre facility
in Manchester.


Elsewhere, there's a new CEO at Inteland Alan shares the story of
the time he had dinner with former CEO, Andrew Grove.


Season 2, episode 6 is presented by deputy editor Melanie Mingas,
and features editor-at-large Alan Burkitt-Gray, senior reporters
Abigail Opiah and Natalie Bannerman.