Telecom Ramblings

Another federal network infrastructure deal was announced yesterday, as Windstream (NYSE:WIN, news, filings) took home a contract with the US Department of Veterans Affairs. They’ll be providing voice, data, and internet services for the agency’s Region 4, which overseas some 300 facilities of various types across 11 states in the Northeast. [Read more →]

The Rochester-based fiber builder and operator Fibertech has brought in bigger pipes for enterprises across their footprint. They’re using Ciena’s switches and packet-optical technology in a deployment of 100G Ethernet services in the metro. [Read more →]

Here’s a quick roundup of news items from the data center world so far this week: [Read more →]

The European-style internet exchange model is really starting to send out runners. Today AMS-IX unveiled plans to open a new peering exchange, this time in East Africa — specifically in the port city of Mombasa, Kenya.  [Read more →]

We have a bit of infrastructure M&A this morning, of the carrier-neutral interconnectivity variety rather than fiber though. Cologix has bought its way into another new market with the purchase of the Jacksonville, Florida-based JAX Meet Me Room.  [Read more →]

As we kick off the week let’s quickly finish off some news from last week that I didn’t get to: [Read more →]

This article was authored by Michael J Carroll, and was originally posted on telecomasia.net.

Analysts predict Deutsche Telekom, Telefonica, Vodafone and Orange will cry foul at European Commission (EC) proposals to start abolishing roaming rates from 2014. [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by David Bell, Digital Marketing Executive at Tripudio Telecom. The Tripudio team will be at the Call Centre and Customer Management Expo on the 2^nd and 3^rd October 2013 at the London Olympia Exhibition Centre.

It would appear that ‘cloud’ seems to be the answer to everyone’s problems these days. ‘Cloud computing’, ‘cloud networking’ and ‘cloud based hosting’ are common phrases amongst most [Read more →]

Up in the Pacific Northwest there was a bit of fiber consolidation yesterday. Wave Division Holdings has acquired Spectrum Networks and its subsidiary CondoInternet, adding yet more depth to their network in and around Seattle. [Read more →]

The fault line between the content delivery network and carrier worlds has been rather quiet lately, but today we saw a substantial new buildout by a network operator. Ericsson says it has deployed a CDN for Rostelecom, the largest operator in Russia. [Read more →]

Time for a quick roundup of news from the colocation sector: [Read more →]

The past few months has brought a steady drumbeat of transactions in the Metro Fiber sector with the acquisitions of Freedom Dark Fiber out in Southern California, US Metro down in Florida, Access Communications in Minneapolis and EasyTel in Tulsa. We sat down with Bank Street Group’s James Henry (JHH), Richard Lukaj (RSL) and Peter Beckett (JPB) to discuss the implications of these recent transactions for the sector and the outlook for the future. [Read more →]

Midweek brings us another quick roundup of news items that are worth a quick look. [Read more →]

The Vyvx division over at Level 3 Communications (NYSE:LVLT, news, filings) has added a PoP way down in Johannesburg, South Africa. They’re responding to demand for video content both generated in and delivered to the country.  Telemedia is the first announced customer, gaining access to a global audience for its content. [Read more →]

For a while it looked like Verizon might crack the regulatory barrier and substitute its VoiceLink wireless replacement for copper services in remote areas. However, the public outcry was big enough to drive them into retreat, as yesterday they abruptly reversed course and said they’d bring in fiber to the island as well. [Read more →]

Here’s a quick roundup of international news from the start of this week, but taking a break from Vodafone and all that: [Read more →]

Telecom Ramblings may not be the next Rolling Stone, but nevertheless we’ve got an actual rock star interview for you today. Chad Taylor, best known as guitarist and co-founder of the multi-platinum rock band +LIVE+, is also Chairman of Think Loud Holdings, one of the main backers of United Fiber & Data. UFD made its debut earlier this year by kicking off a brand new fiber build between New York City and Ashburn by way of York, Pennsylvania. Chad joins us here today to talk fiber and telecom. [Read more →]

Last week’s heavily foreshadowed $130B deal between Verizon and Vodafone finished off the summer M&A season with a bang.  In the end, Verizon met what had been widely seen as Vodafone’s price to finally gain full control over Verizon Wireless.  Did they get a steal or did they pay too much?  Now that the dust has settled, here’s a quick poll: [Read more →]

Remember when the FCC laid down the law on net neutrality, and many said that as weak as it was it still likely wouldn’t survive a court challenge? Well that challenge took its usual scenic route through the legal system but has now arrived at long last.  [Read more →]

Over on the Ramblings Jobs Board we have two new job listings this week from the competitive metro fiber space: [Read more →]

It’s been a shortened week, but despite having all the oxygen sucked out by the Verizon/Vodafone and MicroSoft/Nokia deals, plenty of other interesting things managed to happen: [Read more →]

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

In the wake of Microsoft’s $7.2 billion buyout of Nokia’s handset business, it’s not surprising some people are comparing it to Google’s buyout of Motorola’s handset division a couple of years ago. [Read more →]

Here’s a quick roundup of news from the data center world this week, with Infinity tapping euNetworks’ fiber, and a customer each for Sabey, CoreSite, and CyrusOne. [Read more →]