Telecom Ramblings

Consolidation among fiber infrastructure providers just keeps on chugging along.  This mornings deal comes from a familiar source, FirstLight Fiber.  FirstLight has been rolling up fiber assets across northern New England and upstate New York for many years now, and today they announced a definitive agreement to acquire 186 Communications. [Read more →]

The European data center provider Interxion has had a busy week on multiple fronts. [Read more →]

It’s time to catch up on some other announcements from the week so far, so here are items from two large data center REITs, two vendors, and one wireless network: [Read more →]

EdgeConneX and Telia Carrier are expanding their relationship in a big way this summer.  Telia is expanding its Tier 1 IP backbone to EdgeConneX’s entire edge data center footprint. [Read more →]

The Caribbean may soon have another submarine cable player shaking things up.  Deep Blue Cable has contracted with TE SubCom to deploy the new system they have planned. [Read more →]

Nokia has sold some gear at the top of the world.  Nepal’s WorldLink is rolling out Nepal’s first 100G backbone, leveraging Nokia’s 1830 PSS DWDM technology to make it happen. [Read more →]

Cincinnati Bell made two inorganic moves this morning, surging onto the consolidation stage in a rather unexpected way.  will be paying The Midwestern service provider has signed a definitive agreements to combine with Hawaiian Telecom and to acquire OnX Enterprise Solutions. [Read more →]

India may see a mega merger this year, if reports out of the region are correct.  Tata Group has long been seeking a way to reconfigure its capital structure and relieve the pressure of its debt, and they may have found a way to do it with the help of the rival Bharti Enterprises group. [Read more →]

CityFibre is making a move over in Europe this week.  The UK wholesale metro fiber operator is raising up to £200M as part of an expansion of its buildout across the country.  Simultaneously, they have announced an acquisition as well. [Read more →]

That’s the rumor of the week it seems, at least via the New York Post.  Is Verizon about to take a swing at owning even more content?  Analysts appear to be rather tickled by the idea, but otherwise not particularly impressed. [Read more →]

Here’s a quick look at some news from around the world this week: [Read more →]

Zayo has done a deal for renewable energy for its colocation division.  The Boulder-based infrastructure provider has purchased 86 million kilowatt hours of energy certificates. [Read more →]

Equinix’s presence in the Netherlands is that much bigger this morning.  The global data center operator has launched its latest facility in the Dutch capital of Amsterdam. [Read more →]

Reports over the holiday that derive from Guggenheim Equity Research suggest that Crown Castle has some major plans for small cells.  Specifically, the tower and fiber operator will be adding more than 25,000 small cell sites to its portfolio, more than doubling the 20K the company has in place today. [Read more →]

There was some merger news from the vendor space over the weekend.  ADVA Optical Networking has entered into a definitive agreement to buy MRV Communications. [Read more →]

This article was authored by Dylan Bushell-Embling, and was originally posted on telecomasia.net.

China Telecom has entered three new partnership agreements aimed at accelerating the development of services based on an IoT open platform. [Read more →]

With July 4 approaching rather rapidly and the second quarter coming to a close, here are a few news bits of companies taking care of the details. [Read more →]

Here’s five data center and interconnection items worth a look: [Read more →]

For a segment of the market that doesn’t yet actually exist, the South Atlantic submarine cable business seems to be quite popular.  Yesterday Huawei Marine inked a deal with China Unicom and Camtel to build the South Atlantic Inter Link, or SAIL, which will be a cable between Africa and South America. [Read more →]

The internet exchange specialist AMS-IX has expanded its reach with some help from PacketFabric. The two have signed a memorandum of understanding to interconnect their infrastructure in the US. [Read more →]

Yesterday there was some dark fiber news today from Sunesys, which these days is of course a division of Crown Castle. The fiber builder and operator has expanded its dark fiber infrastructure out into Chicago. [Read more →]

Here’s a quick rundown on some news items from the first half of this week: [Read more →]

That’s the merger-related news making the rounds this morning.  The cable giants Comcast and Charter are talking with Softbank-controlled Sprint in a two-month period of exclusive negotiations.   [Read more →]