Telecom Ramblings

Following up on last week’s bid for the remainder of Colt it doesn’t already own, Fidelity confirmed this week that it won’t be increasing its bid despite the view of independent directors that it undervalues the company. So what happens next? We wait to see if another bid emerges, and then we find out what Fidelity really wants. [Read more →]

Here’s a set of quick-takes on some of the interesting news from the international front this week: [Read more →]

This article was authored by John C. Tanner, and was originally posted on telecomasia.net.

As you may have read this week, the ITU announced that it’s officially outlined its vision and roadmap for the overall goals, processes and timeline for 5G development. [Read more →]

I’m on the road this week on the west coast, which is slowing down my writing a bit for those wondering.  Lots of news today from the world of colocation & cloud.  Here’s a quick rundown. [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Michael Gundling, Vice President of Product Marketing at TerraGo

In many industries, the mission-critical work happens outside the office walls. For example, when there’s a service outage, utility companies find themselves on the clock as they dispatch field crews to restore essential services. Electric, gas, water and other companies in the public sector are continually challenged to reduce [Read more →]

Next, here’s a roundup of some vendor news that’s worth a look: [Read more →]

I’m a little behind this week, posting from the road in California.  Here’s a quick update on some metro news from this week: [Read more →]

After entering the US cable market with the purchase of Suddenlink and feinting toward TW Cable, Altice made its next big move this morning — in France. They’ve submitted a bid for the French telecom Bouygues Telecom, which operates the #3 wireless network there. [Read more →]

Voice was once the only thing telecom did, but is now just one of many types of data communications connected over endpoints that are now more often mobile and wireless than not.  The Voice over IP revolution started well over a decade ago, but it was really just the tip of an iceberg of communications over IP.  With us today to offer his perspective on the world of VoIP, Hosted PBX, and Unified Communications is the founder and CEO of VoIP Logic, Micah Singer.  [Read more →]

Over in Europe, another pan-European fiber operator just might leave the public markets and go private. Colt has received an offer from its majority shareholder, Fidelity, for the 37.6% of the company it doesn’t already own. The price tag of £569m sent Colt’s stock up 20% today in London. [Read more →]

For this month’s Friday poll, let’s talk about regulators.  Between the resurrection of net neutrality, the collapse of the Comcast/TWC deal, this week’s AT&T fine for limiting unlimited bandwidth, and a host of smaller items, the US regulatory system has been rather visible in the first half of 2015.  I’m curious what our readers, who are among the most informed people on the subject there are, think.  Are regulators today doing too little, too much, or just enough?  [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Patrick Lincoln, Director and Founder of SolutionIP

With the spread of fast mobile and superfast fibre broadband, increased online streaming and mounting dependence on cloud and VoIP, demand for telecoms is growing at a startling rate. Yet some have argued that the telecommunications network is arguably not keeping pace with rising demand and that a supply imbalance has occurred that favours [Read more →]

For this Thursday morning, a cloud footprint expansion, some fiber buildout news, and two executitve appointments in metro fiber worth noting: [Read more →]

The telecommunications giants are in the regulatory doghouse this week it seems, with both AT&T and Verizon taking some heat. [Read more →]

Here’s a quick rundown of some colo and cloud news from the week so far: [Read more →]

When Comcast gave up on its plans to purchase TW Cable in the face of regulatory opposition, I speculated about a few of its options for inorganic growth. One of them was to pivot to wireless and buy T-Mobile. But I wasn’t really serious — I was just covering all the exits, as it were. However, according to a German magazine today, Comcast actually is in the hunt and it might even have the inside track. [Read more →]

Allied Fiber formally reached the end of its first major buildout of conduit and fiber today with the launch of their Southeastern network.  The news comes just a tad over five years since the company first unveiled its plans for a new kind of national dark fiber infrastructure public. [Read more →]

Here’s a quick roundup of infrastructure news from around the USA early this week: [Read more →]

This article was authored by John C. Tanner, and was originally posted on telecomasia.net.

ITEM: Analyst firm Gartner is advising CIOs to beware of the Internet of Things – or at least “smart machines” that will leverage sensor-based data, advanced algorithms and AI to “make increasingly significant business decisions over which humans have decreasing control.” [Read more →]

Here’s a look at a bunch of interesting news from the vendors to start the week: [Read more →]

With us today to offer his perspective is euNetworks’ CEO Brady Rafuse, who previously stopped by a few years ago.  Since that time, euNetworks has expanded is pan-European fiber footprint organically and made three acquisitions as well.  The latest of those was FibreLac, extending their footprint up into the Swiss Alps. But the newest change at euNetworks has been the recent transaction by which the company has de-listed from the Singapore Stock Exchange. [Read more →]

The other news yesterday was an RFP from the City Council in Los Angeles, following up on some earlier intentions. Basically, they’re looking for a few good network operators to build them an FTTH network similar to what they’re seeing Google Fiber and municipal efforts like in Chattanooga are doing.   [Read more →]

According to this piece an Irish publication, Hibernia Networks now has a new majority investor. Luxembourg-based Murosa Development has taken a 51% share of the company, with longtime owner Columbia Ventures Corp (CVC) now holding 49%.  [Read more →]