Undersea Roundup: AJC, Seaborn, Southern Cross, Emerald Networks

January 15th, 2014
 

There has been a flurry of announcements this week from submarine cable systems around the world. Here’s a few quick takes: [Read more →]

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The Courts Deal Net Neutrality an Expected Body Blow

January 15th, 2014
 

Yesterday the judicial hammer finally came down on network neutrality. A federal appeals court has sided with Verizon and rejected the rules put in place by the FCC in 2010 to prevent carriers from discriminating for or against various types of internet traffic. But while plenty will be outraged by the decision, I doubt very much that there are many that are the least bit surprised by the outcome. [Read more →]

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Fiber M&A: Last Mile Solutions Buys Some Boston Dark Fiber

January 15th, 2014
 

Some unique dark fiber has changed hands up in the Boston metro area. According to a recent announcement, Last Mile Solutions has purchased the dark fiber assets of Forest City Network Solutions. [Read more →]

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Ocean Networks Finds Some SAPL Funding

January 14th, 2014
 

Another submarine cable system on a unique route is getting some spending money. Ocean Networks, which is developing the South America Pacific Link, said yesterday that it has secured mezzanine funding for the effort. [Read more →]

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As Malone Lurks, Charter Bids and TW Cable Scoffs

January 14th, 2014
 

We don’t spend as much time on the cable MSOs here on Telecom Ramblings as on other segments, but yesterday’s news was big enough to get my attention. It turned out that there was actual fire underneath all that smoke regarding bids for TW Cable. Indeed, Charter has a newly public bid on the table, and TW Cable doesn’t think much of it. [Read more →]

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Metro Bytes: Wilcon, PEG Bandwidth, tw telecom, XO

January 13th, 2014
 

It’s time for a quick roundup of recent news from the metro: [Read more →]

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Poll: Who Are the Most Likely Buyers of US Networks in 2014?

January 13th, 2014
 

Ok, last week’s poll tested Ramblings’ waters for M&A targets among US network operators, so now it’s time for the other side of the coin.  Who do you think are 2014’s most likely consolidators of US network assets?  As before, you can choose up to three: [Read more →]

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US-Huawei security flap descends into farce

January 13th, 2014
 

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

I was still wrapping up my holiday break when the news broke that US lawmakers are lobbying the South Korean government to stop a network deal between local cellco LG+ and Huawei Technologies. [Read more →]

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Two Vendors Warn, Throwing a Dash Of Cold Water on Q4

January 10th, 2014
 

This week two alternative vendors for the telecom and internet infrastructure market pre-announced, lowering Q4 estimates materially. In the wake of Cisco’s weak off-schedule quarter, one wonders if Q4 is indeed looking like a tougher one than usual. [Read more →]

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Dish Gives Up On LightSquared, Is T-Mobile Next?

January 10th, 2014
 

Yesterday Dish and its billionaire chairman Charlie Ergen publicly withdrew its $2.2B bid for the restructuring wireless challenger LightSquared. The move comes just as the trial starts into whether Ergen was buying LightSquared debt he wasn’t allowed to buy in order to swing the auction his way. [Read more →]

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ION Finishes Up Its Upstate NY Buildout

January 9th, 2014
 

It’s time to close the books on another of the bigger and more successful BTOP projects out there. ION said yesterday that it has completed its $50M buildout into the various far corners of upstate New York plus a few in Pennsylvania and New York is complete. [Read more →]

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Colo Roundup: CyrusOne, Cologix, Viawest, Telehouse, Net Access

January 9th, 2014
 

There have been several interesting developments in colo and cloud infrastructure this week: [Read more →]

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Network Bytes: TWCBC, UPN, FiberLight, GTT, Level 3, Orange Business

January 8th, 2014
 

Time for a quick Wednesday roundup of news from the last few days from network operators, large and small. [Read more →]

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Industry Spotlight: Riding the E-Rate Train With Fatbeam’s Greg Green

January 8th, 2014
 

Building fiber networks in third and fourth tier markets has never been easy. But by leveraging the federal E-Rate program and keeping a tight focus, the regional operator Fatbeam has been managing rapid growth up in the Pacific Northwest since its founding less than four years ago. With us today to tell us the how and why of Fatbeam’s approach to fiber networks is the company’s Co-founder and President Greg Green. [Read more →]

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AT&T to Shake Up Wireless Traffic With Sponsored Data

January 7th, 2014
 

The OTT wars now have a fresh (but not new) battle front, as AT&T is going ahead and introducing a new service where content companies can pay for the data used by a subscriber’s usage. It is an attempt to directly link the world of content to the costs of the bandwidth required to deliver it, rather than depend on the consumer’s willingness to pay more.  And if nothing else, it will surely stir up the net neutrality wars anew. [Read more →]

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Allied Fiber’s CEO Applauds WSJ’s Coverage on Internet Giants’ Push to Control the Pipes of the Internet

January 7th, 2014
 

This Industry Viewpoint comes from Allied Fiber’s Hunter Newby via Jaymie Scotto & Associates.

Allied Fiber is the company actively deploying a nationwide system that connects subsea cables and communities with its own dark fiber and integrated network-neutral colocation facilities along its route every 60 miles. Allied’s CEO Hunter Newby sat down [Read more →]

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TMobile Buys a Pile Of Spectrum From Verizon

January 6th, 2014
 

According to an SEC filing this morning, T-Mobile US has made another move to boost its spectrum holdings. They’ve done a deal with Verizon Wireless involving both cash and a spectrum exchange to give them more depth form future LTE expansion. [Read more →]

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Poll: Which US Networks Are Most Likely to Be Acquired in 2014?

January 6th, 2014
 

Every year we ask this question.  Ramblings readers are drawn from the most informed in the sector, and it’s always interesting to see what you all are thinking about industry consolidation.  Which US-based network operators are most likely to get purchased this year?  Cast your vote: [Read more →]

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A year of spying

January 6th, 2014
 

This article was authored by Don Sambandaraksa, and was originally posted on telecomasia.net.

Last year was but a taste of the abuse of power that the spy agencies of the Axis of Espionage has unleashed upon the people of the world. From PRISM and interception of Facebook, Google, Yahoo to TEMPORA tapping of [Read more →]

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Ramblings Jobs: FirstLight Fiber

January 5th, 2014
 

The new year’s first job listing goes to FirstLight Fiber, which until this past September had been known as Tech Valley Communications. [Read more →]

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Friday Poll: Is the Worst Over For NSA Spying Revelations?

January 3rd, 2014
 

We’ll do the annual network M&A buyers and sellers polls next week when everyone is back.  For now, let’s see what everyone thinks of the NSA revelations and the telecom and internet infrastructure world.  So the NSA has backdoors into a laundry list of equipment, has apparently helped weaken encryption standards, may have hacked into at least one submarine cable’s backoffice, routinely monitors traffic between the big data centers of the largest content providers out there, and has been tapping just about everyone’s phone at will — even the Skype ones.  Is that it?  Are we done now?   [Read more →]

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Friday Bytes: euNetworks, EarthLink, Open-IX, Juniper

January 3rd, 2014
 

Friday came awfully quickly this week, what with the New Year and all that. Here’s a quick look at some of the industry news that started the year, plus one from the week before that I hadn’t seen: [Read more →]

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Trends to Keep an Eye on in 2014

January 2nd, 2014
 

After those M&A predictions from New Year’s Eve and before the first 2014 news starts to flow in, let’s talk about a few overall trends to watch in 2014 in telecom and internet infrastructure.  Everybody’s got their own list these days, so I’ll just focus on a few: [Read more →]

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