Telecom Ramblings

This article was authored by Grace In Mono, and was originally posted on telecomasia.net.

Early this month, the Philippines’ two major telcos, the PLDT Group (Smart and Sun) and Globe, started offering free internet services. Globe gave free Facebook while Smart and Sun Cellular announced free bandwidth for browsing, searching, online shopping, and e-mail. However, according to a handful of accounts, the PLDT Group’s free-data promo only allows access to select websites and apps, [Read more →]

Level 3 and tw telecom chose Halloween 2014 to complete the deal they struck back in June. It’s a done deal, and now the integration begins in earnest. [Read more →]

After years of consolidation in the US fiber networking market, next week’s likely closing of the Level 3/tw telecom acquisition will usher in a new era. It’s been a year where the field of significant potential fiber M&A targets in the has passed the threshold from numerous to definitely scarce. [Read more →]

With their 325 Hudson project gaining momentum in Manhattan, Amerimar Enterprises and industry veteran Hunter Newby have taken on a new project. Amerimar has purchased the carrier hotel at 717 South Wells Street, and will be redeveloping it to include a new “Meet Me Room”. [Read more →]

There are few buzzwords less specific these days than the word cloud, but for me the intercloud manages to fog things up even more.  The internet already connects all the clouds out there right?  So what are we really saying?  I asked Luke Norris, CEO of Peak and one of the folks most involved with hooking up clouds to each other, to help me understand how the intercloud changes the game.  We last talked with Luke last summer as Peak was just beginning its national white-label cloud expansion.  [Read more →]

In the CDN cloud world, Akamai remains barely challenged by the rest of the sector when it comes to the raw numbers. They turned in another strong quarter yesterday after the markets closed, shrugging aside the perrenial worries about Apple or another big customer moving traffic off onto internal infrastructure. But it’s hard work staying on top and fourth quarter guidance wasn’t as big as hoped, so the stock seems to be slumping anyway. [Read more →]

Just about all network operators these days are looking to hook up the cloud, introducing new ecosystems and programs targeted on the new opportunities out there. Tata did the same this morning with a ‘comprehensive cloud enablement platform’ called IZO, but with a new twist. This one featured an ecosystem of 13 other network operators as partners. [Read more →]

It’s midweek already, and Halloween is just two days away.  Here’s a look at some of the networking news from this week: [Read more →]

Last week, the Canadian service provider Mitel made another move for yet more business VoIP scale and took its bid for rival ShoreTel public. Today, ShoreTel’s board followed up its initial private rejection with a more public one. [Read more →]

Over the past 9 days or so, Fairpoint workers have been on strike for the usual things – better pay and benefits, fewer job losses, etc. Meanwhile, the company scrambles to keep its networks and services functional with the people it has. Labor disputes in the unionized part of the telecom world do happen of course, but this one may be getting uglier.  [Read more →]

Here’s a quick roundup of news from the past few days, with three from the data center, one from VoIP, and the last from fiber M&A: [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by the MEF.  

In the light of the MEF’s recent Third Network announcement, a round table discussion on the Metro Cloud opportunity arising from this announcement was held on 15th October in Düsseldorf, Germany. [Read more →]

Late last week there was some consolidation in the colocation sector that slipped past me. TierPoint has agreed acquire Xand from ABRY Partners, adding six data centers and 140,000 square feet or raised floor space to their footprint. The deal gives them some a total of 13 facilities and some 300,000 square feet while bolting on a solid northeastern presence. [Read more →]

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

Over-the-top players will cost operators an estimated $14 billion in lost revenues this year, up by 26% from 2013, Juniper Research estimates. [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Dan Joe Barry, vice president of marketing, Napatech.

Mary Meeker, the head of Morgan Stanley’s global technology research team, projected that mobile data traffic would increase by almost 4,000 percent by 2014, for a cumulative annual growth rate of more than 100 percent. Cisco’s Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update, 2013–2018 says mobile video will increase fourteenfold from 2013 to 2018, accounting for [Read more →]

Here’s a set of news briefs from around the world from this week that are worth a quick look: [Read more →]

Juniper’s October began on a sour note with the lowering of Q3 guidance.  Actual Q3 numbers were on the high side of that, but their look ahead into Q4 was decidedly chilly.  Actually, that’s pretty much what the case was back in July, when Q2 was inline but their Q3 forecasts came in light based on softening demand.  As trends go Juniper surely wishes a friendlier one was developing, but the stock is up slightly in the pre-market this morning as investors were ready for the news and Juniper offered a few incentives. [Read more →]

Infinera had another solid quarter, with continued growth coming from the ongoing 100G roll-outs around the world.  Here are a few of their numbers in some context: [Read more →]

The UK wireless operator O2 is moving its infrastructure from leased capacity to dedicated fiber, and they’re getting the fiber from Zayo. The two companies completed a 15 year deal for a managed core fiber network that will stretch from Glasgow down to Salisbury. O2 of course is Telefonica’s UK business, and has been for some 8 years. [Read more →]

Here’s a set of quick takes on news from the data center space over the last couple days: [Read more →]

The world of peering and interconnection saw a bit of M&A news today: IIX has acquired the UK-based Allegro Networks.  [Read more →]

Zayo’s first move after taking its story public with an IPO last week was close to home.  The Boulder, Colorado-based fiber builder and operator has announced a new fiber buildout in a town it knows quite well: Boulder, Colorado. [Read more →]

We’ve had a bunch of regional and metro news to look at this morning, here’s a quick rundown: [Read more →]