wiredInUSA November 2019

Swedish company seeks extra fiber

Addition to the fleet

The Toisa Warrior

French communications company Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN) has acquired a light construction vessel from UK-based Sealion Shipping, managers of the Toisa fleet, at a cost of $6 million. Purchase of the vessel, Toisa Warrior , relates to the sale of assets under Toisa’s Chapter 11 liquidation plan. Built in 2011 at China’s Wuchang shipyard, Toisa Warrior is a VS 483 Mk3 design, with an overall length of 87.7m, beam of 19m and draft of 6.55m. ASN has renamed the vessel Ile d’Ouessant and moved it from the Bahamas flag to the French flag. Plans are to use Ile d’Ouessant as a maintenance vessel for submarine cables in the Atlantic, replacing the 1982-built maintenance cable ship, Peter Faber , operated by Alda Marine. submarine

Image: Inexio

EQT, the Stockholm-based infrastructure investor, has agreed to buy Inexio, a German broadband fiber company, for a reported €1 billion. Inexio currently provides high speed internet access to over 110,000 customers and 6,000 businesses in Saarland in south-west Germany via its 10,000km fiber infrastructure. David Zimmer, who founded Inexio 12 years ago, said: “From our excellent position today, we will continue to invest heavily to bring modern and reliable fiber optic infrastructure to two million German households by 2030.” For the past three years the company has been owned by private-equity company Warburg Pincus and a number of minority shareholders. Elsewhere, EQT is partnering with Marc Ganzi’s US group to buy Zayo for $14.3 billion, and in May signed an agreement to acquire Maltese operator Melita from Apax Partners and Fortino Capital.

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