Tuesday Roundup: CityFibre, Lumen, 123NET, DataOne

One fiber M&A and three interesting partnerships: CityFibre has made an inorganic move over in the UK. They have announced the acquisition of Connexin’s fiber network, giving them a new foothold across Hull and East Riding as well as a contract to roll out connectivity to 34K locations in Nottinghamshire and West Lincolnshire. The deal adds some 80K homes to CityFibre’s footprint with another 20K underway. Connexin’s shareholder PATRIZIA will become a minority shareholder in CityFibre.

Lumen Technologies’ Vyvx is partnering with LTN to offer a fully managed solution for live events. RTL Deutschland has been using the combined service to air NFL games, including the recent Super Bowl LIX. Vyvx provides the video/data transmission, encoding and such, and LTN adds advanced content enrichment services.

123NET has a new partner for its last mile buildout in Detroit, Michigan. The Detroit-based developer, The Platform, has signed on to help bring fiber to Piquette Flats in the city’s Milwaukee Junction neighborhood. The Piquette Flats project has converted the historic Studebaker building into 161 apartments, to which 123NET will be able to offer Internet-as-an-Amenity.

DataOne USA has added another partner, bringing in Northeast Precast to the venture as a minority partner. DataOne, which operates facilities in Lyon and Grenoble in France and is working on one not far from me in Vineland NJ, has roots with the low latency network operator BSO. Northeast Precast does precast concrete, and will help with the company’s AI-focused buildout projects.

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