#16 – Equinix enters India, a telecoms crisis in Lebanon, and special guest Ranulf Scarbrough, CEO of Avaroa Cable

In this episode the Data Economy and Capacity's news team discuss
Equinix acquiring GPX Global Systems; India’s OFC subsea cable;
Qatar's potential $1.5 billion stake in Reliance JioFiber;
Facebook's latest large scale data centre in Tennessee; Lebanon's
delayed mobile tender; and Huawei goes down under with a new
security scandal. 


Featuring host editor-in-chief Joao Marques Lima, editor-at-large
Alan Burkitt-Gray, deputy editor Melanie Mingas, and senior
reporters Natalie Bannerman and Abigail Opiah. This episode also
features an extra special guest Ranulf Scarbrough, CEO of Avaroa
Cable, who has been stranded on a pacific island since the
beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, but nevertheless, he kept
playing an important role in connecting the Pacific islands to
the world.