Telecom Ramblings

This Industry Viewpoint roundtable summary was authored by the MEF.  

An older carrier network can be deceptive. It often is perfectly suited for today’s business needs, solid, predictable and reliable. It may be largely paid for, or at least depreciating on schedule, with minimal need for significant CapEx outlays. Yet that trusted technology can fall flat when faced with [Read more →]

So AT&T isn’t happy about Obama’s speech yesterday endorsing regulating broadband like a utility.  Today they CEO Randall Stephenson said the company would suspend investing in its FTTH expansion until the situation is resolved. [Read more →]

Southern California has some new 100G metro connectivity today.  Wilcon has taken the next step forward in its evolution, lighting its dark fiber network and introducing scalable Ethernet, wavelength, and internet access services. [Read more →]

For this Wednesday morning, here’s a quick rundown of data center and cloud news from this week: [Read more →]

Of all the deals I’ve ever thought the European network and cloud provider Colt might be involved in, this one never came up. Colt announced this morning that it plans to acquire Tokyo-based KVH for €130.3M. [Read more →]

In the third quarter, GTT continued and expanded on the steady growth trend they’ve been working on, beating revenue estimates and increasing margins once again.  Here are a few of their numbers in some context: [Read more →]

Here’s a quick Tuesday roundup of fiber news on the metro and regional fiber front: [Read more →]

In a surprise announcement yesterday, Juniper’s CEO Shaygan Kheradpir stepped down after having taken the helm at the beginning of this year. EVP, general manager, and longtime Juniper veteran Rami Rahim has been tapped to take over the CEO role at least for now. The usual platitudes weren’t there, however, and it seems something ugly went down. [Read more →]

After six years of letting the bureaucrats and lobbyists dance largely unsupervised, President Obama today entered the debate. As one might expect from his politcal roots, he weighed in solidly on the side of net neutrality as originally envisioned — no fast lanes or anything of that sort. [Read more →]

Unbowed by October’s rejection, Mitel has come back with a new offer for ShoreTel.  This morning the Canadian-based cloud VoIP provider raised its bid to acquire its US-based rival by just under 5% to $8.50/share. [Read more →]

So much of the ‘North American’ telecommunications market still stops at the Rio Grande that it’s a significant story when someone crosses it. Over the weekend AT&T did just that, however, announcing a deal to purchase Mexico’s Iusacell.  The move comes just months after AT&T exited its stake in America Movil and will put them in direct competition with Carlos Slim’s telecommunications empire. [Read more →]

This article was authored by Stefan Hammond, and was originally posted on telecomasia.net.

As they usually do this time of year, Gartner has released their predictions for 2015…

“…and beyond.” [Read more →]

This week we got a new listing to look at on the Ramblings Jobs board to look at from the New England coastline. [Read more →]

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With today’s reliance on mobile phones it’s easy to assume that no matter where you go (unless it’s a train tunnel) there will be mobile coverage. However, there are still a surprising amount of locations where getting a good mobile signal is a rare occurrence.

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In its first quarterly report since going public two weeks ago, Zayo continued to push forward the way it did while private with a complex mix of both organic and inorganic growth.  I had wondered if the vast amounts of data Zayo has always offered might get compressed by the various requirements on a public company, but although they reduced the reportable segments to three their earnings supplement is as detailed as ever.  Here is a small subset of that data in context. [Read more →]

The bandwidth infrastructure marketplace in Europe has been an interesting one this year from both organic and inorganic perspectives.  Growing revenues and expanding margins marked euNetworks’ performance in their third quarter results out this morning.  Here is a quick table putting their numbers in some context: [Read more →]

The first cable to cross the southern Atlantic ocean took another step forward this week.  Angola Cables has has signed a contract with Japan’s NEC Corporation to build the cable system, which promises to link Africa and South America directly for the first time.   [Read more →]

The Google Cloud Platform became the latest of the major clouds to get some public connectivity attention. Yesterday four partners officially began offering direct access to Google’s cloud, one data center specialist and three fiber operators. [Read more →]

The Caribbean fiber market saw a significant consolidation event yesterday. Cable & Wireless Communications has agreed to purchase Columbus International for $1.85B, with one of telecom’s billionaires taking a hand in the deal. [Read more →]

Enterprise growth in the US was strong for both tw telecom and Level 3, helping the now combined companies turn in solid third quarters.  The deal closed late last week, and thus the results of both companies were reported together this morning.  Here is a quick summary of their numbers in some context.  First, tw telecom: [Read more →]

Here’s a quick rundown on some of the news from around the world so far this week: [Read more →]

With the close of the deal late last week, Level 3 Communications and tw telecom are now a single entity at least on paper. But tomorrow we will hear about how Q3 went for the two of them when still separate. [Read more →]

Lots of very interesting cloud news out early this week, here’s a quick rundown: [Read more →]