Telecom Ramblings

The cloud services market is a wide open playing field right now, and there are many folks out there trying to establish new business models that can take best advantage of the new capabilities. PeakColo has been at it  for a while already, taking a unique streamlined, wholesale approach that leverages the channel almost exclusively. Just yesterday they raised another $5M to further their expansion plan.  Here to tell us more about their plans is the company’s CEO Luke Norris. [Read more →]

Looks like the game really is won for Softbank’s roller coaster bid for Sprint Nextel. Today Sprint’s shareholders voted overwhelmingly for the deal, clearing the last big hurdle for the Japanese company’s purchase of 78% of the #3 wireless provider. [Read more →]

PEG Bandwidth says it has won a big Ethernet backhaul deal with a major wireless carrier. They’ll be bringing fiber to some 473 additional towers in support of the carrier’s expanding 4G market coverage, giving them 700 in all with this particular carrier and a leg up toward the 3,000 milestone. [Read more →]

I’m back in the USA again, trying to catch up a bit despite the jet lag. Here’s a quick look at some vendor news over the last few days: [Read more →]

Vodafone Group (NYSE:VOD, news, filings) did tell us they felt they had the resources to chase consolidation opportunities without selling its stake in Verizon Wireless. And today they proved that was not an idle threat, coming up with a €7.7B deal for Kabel Deutschland. [Read more →]

Since splitting off from nTelos in October of 2011, Lumos Networks and its Virginia, West Virginia, and Pennsylvanian fiber networks have been earning more attention from the markets. Revenues have been shifting toward higher growth data products, and margins have been rising steadily. Lately they’ve been aggressively expanding their footprint into Richmond.  With us today to tell us where Lumos has come from and where it is going from here is CEO Timothy Biltz. [Read more →]

Keith Patterson is a freelance writer and designer for all things green. His work promotes green technology and advancements for a better world. He currently manages a blog at EnergySavings.com.

While Sprint may be making headlines for its attempt to purchase Clearwire, many may have missed the company’s sustainability announcement through Greenpeace International this past spring. In April, Sprint was recognized by Greenpeace International as a leader in the communications industry for its fight to stop climate change. [Read more →]

Early next week I’ll be on my way back to the USA again, so if something big happens Monday and I’m not quick off the draw, you’ll know why. In the meantime, it’s Friday and time for a quick roundup of news from the cloud and datacenter sectors. [Read more →]

Sprint has now answered Dish’s $4.40 tender challenge for Clearwire with more than just a lawsuit. Yesterday they went all in with a $5/share bid that clearly is intended to go for the knockout. [Read more →]

If you thought the flashpoint at the intersection of netflix, net neutrality, and peering had gone away, think again. This time it’s Verizon and Cogent mixing it up. Apparently, Verizon has been neglecting to upgrade its peering connection with its smaller rival, and it is now overflowing. [Read more →]

Pacnet (news) scored a trifecta in Chinese interconnectivity according to a release today. The Asia-Pacific regional network operator’s Chinese joint venture, Pacnet Business Solutions, has entered into master services agreements with all three of China’s major telecom operators: China Telecom, China Unicom, and China Mobile. [Read more →]

Level 3 Communications (NYSE:LVLT, news, filings) is hooking up one of the smallest but most glamorous countries in the world. Under an agreement with Monaco Telecom, the global internet operator will be bringing big bandwidth to James Bond’s favorite resort city-state on the Riviera. [Read more →]

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

Service providers are keen to leverage big data for targeted services, advertising and better customer service, but are at odds with what data to analyze and how to do it without alarming customers over privacy concerns. [Read more →]

Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE:ALU, news, filings) hasn’t had an easy ride for a very long time, and plans to re-ignite the company’s Franco-American growth engines have come and gone a few times now. This morning the company’s new CEO Michel Combes put forth his own bid to get the job done, entitled ‘The Shift Plan’. [Read more →]

As Softbank’s revised bid lurches toward next week’s shareholder vote, Dish has thrown in the towel and will not be submitting that best-and-final offer after all. That decision at least simplifies the playing field. [Read more →]

Time for another quick Wednesday roundup of news from around the competitive telecom and internet infrastructure space: [Read more →]

Today Zayo announced the completion of its buildout up in Anoka County, to the north of Minneapolis. This project was one of the company’s BTOP awards, under which they got $13.4M in stimulus funds for a middle mile network connecting some 145 local public facilities. [Read more →]

A quick look at some news from vendors so far this week, a Finnish deal for Calix, two from Southeast Asia for BTI Systems, and a big milestone for Infinera: [Read more →]

Apparently when Sprint Nextel (NYSE:S, news, filings) complained that Dish’s $4.40 per share tender for Clearwire shares was illegal, they meant it. They’ve now filed suit to stop it, contending that if completed it would violate Delaware corporate law and a number of existing agreements that are already in place. [Read more →]

Earthlink (NASDAQ:ELNK, news, filings) has made another inorganic move, boosting its managed services capabilities with the acquisition of Sunnyvale, California-based CenterBeam.  They’ve been working hard for the past three years now transforming from an ISP into a managed IT/cloud services provider, putting together the necessary network, datacenter, and services pieces together one by one.   [Read more →]

There are two interesting items from Europe to start the week. TeliaSonera has brought in some talent from rather further south as CEO, and Telefonica has found itself denying reports of a buyout offer from AT&T. [Read more →]

The cloud-based services market is still evolving and telecommunications providers are still jockeying for position within it. And to get where they need to be, it is often easier to buy than build. On Friday, CenturyLink did just that built on its Savvis acquisition a few years ago with the purchase of AppFog on Friday. [Read more →]

Verizon (NYSE:VZ, news, filings) Enterprise Solutions has teamed up with Equinix (NASDAQ:EQIX, news, filings) to make its Private IP services available to a wider audience. Enterprise customers can now access the bandwidth from Equinix’s IBXs around the world. [Read more →]