Mergers and Acquisitions

New Zealand provider Vocus has entered an agreement to acquire Stuff Fibre from parent company Stuff Ltd.

Liberty Global and Telefónica have reached an agreement to combine British operations O2 and Virgin Media. This is under a new, £31.4bn agreement that could have a huge impact on the UK market.

Mellanox Technologies is to acquire network intelligence and security technology developer, Titan IC Systems to help accelerate search and big data analytics across a broad range of applications in data centres.

Nokia is acquiring silicon photonics specialist, Elenion Technologies.

Global investment company, KKR has signed an agreement with EQT Infrastructure and OMERS for the latter to jointly acquire German network operator, Deutsche Glasfaser.

UK altnet, CityFibre has acquired broadband network provider, FibreNation from TalkTalk Group.

Network design consultancy, 4site has been acquired by Indigo Telecom Group.

Lumentum has entered into an agreement with passive optical component supplier, Advanced Fiber Resources (AFR) where the latter will acquire certain assets from the former.

Altice Europe’s French subsidiary, SFR FTTH has entered into an exclusivity agreement to acquire 100 per cent of wholesale operator, Covage.

Cloud communications provider, Ribbon Communications has entered into an agreement to acquire, via merger, SDN/NFV and end-to-end packet-optical transport provider ECI Telecom Group.