The Australian financial group, Guardian Digital Communications Macquarie, is to release the tidy sum of €2.982 billion, inclusive of debt, to gain a hold on the British secure communications network, Airwaive O2, a subsidiary of the Spanish telecommunications group, Telefonica. According to the Spanish press, Telefonica is preparing a bid to acquire Olimpia, the holding that controls Telecom Italia. With this acquisition, the Macquarie fund, which already owns the networks operated by Vodafone and Orange in the United Kingdom, will take into its fold clients such as the British Ministry of Defence, the fire service, emergency services and the police.