European independent metro fiber builder and operator euNetworks (news) turned in its usual steady quarter this morning, showing revenue growth and growing margins despite a difficult environment. Here’s a quick table of their Q2 results in context: [Read more →]
Have Obama and Romney Weigh In On Net Neutrality? Please No!
August 6th, 2012
ArsTechnica posted a piece today by Michael Livermore calling for our two presidential candidates to weigh in on network neutrality. Allow me to disagree. No seriously, I really don’t want them to. [Read more →]
Steady Quarter from tw telecom
August 6th, 2012
The national metro fiber operator TW Telecom (NASDAQ:TWTC, news, filings) reported its Q2 earnings after the market closed, with its conference call on tap for tomorrow. Revenues and earnings per share were each a bit lighter than I expected, but still within the usual error bars. Here’s a quick table in context of the prior four quarters: [Read more →]
Earnings Preview: tw telecom, Inteliquent, Cogent
August 6th, 2012
Three competitive network operators, each with a different focus, report earnings this week: telecom later today, Inteliquent (NASDAQ:IQNT, news, filings) tomorrow morning, and Cogent Communications (NASDAQ:CCOI, news, filings) on Thursday. My guesses this quarter seem a bit more conservative than the composite street numbers, but here’s a quick preview of what we might expect to see from each: [Read more →]
TeleCity Group delivers a solid 1H 2012, acquires Tenue Oy, a Finnish data centre operator
August 6th, 2012
This is a guest post by Paolo Gorgò. To inquire about guest posts, contact the webmaster.
Today, TeleCity Group announced its results for the first half of 2012. [Read more →]
Telecity Buys Finland’s Tenue, Reports Solid Growth
August 6th, 2012
There was a bit of data center M&A this morning over in Europe, as Telecity Group (LON:TCY, news, filings) bought itself a footprint in Finland. They have acquired Tenue Oy, an operator of one of the most connected facilities in Helsinki, for £3.7M. The deal brings them 1MW of capacity now, with another [Read more →]
Looking For Those IP Transit Pricing Effects
August 5th, 2012
According to a Telegeography report last week, it’s been a rough year in the IP transit market. Pricing in both London and New York took more than a 50% hit between the second quarter of 2011 and 2012. I thought I’d look around to see if I could find it in recent numbers. [Read more →]
Ramblings Jobs: Cogent, DukeNet
August 3rd, 2012
We have two new listings on the Ramblings’ Jobs Board this week, one from DukeNet and another from Cogent Communications. [Read more →]
North Korea’s underground mobile market
August 3rd, 2012
This article was authored by John C. Tanner, and was originally posted on telecomasia.net.
For those of you curious about the state of mobile in North Korea … [Read more →]
Spectrum Hunger Leads AT&T to Buy Spectrum From NextWave, Others
August 3rd, 2012
That AT&T (NYSE:T, news, filings) is looking for more spectrum is about as secret that McDonald’s sells hamburgers. And so, the announcement yesterday that they have agreed to buy some, the largest being from NextWave Wireless, wasn’t exactly a big surprise. [Read more →]
Friday Roundup: CoreSite, Lumos, Exponential-e
August 3rd, 2012
It’s the first Friday of the dog days of August, and time for a quick roundup of some interconnectivity news from CoreSite, Lumos Networks, and Exponential-e: [Read more →]
Industry Spotlight: ViaWest’s Roy Dimoff
August 2nd, 2012
The internet infrastructure marketplace has expanded greatly in scope with the advent of cloud computing technologies, creating opportunities for data center operators like ViaWest to address the needs of a much wider range of enterprises. With a western regional focus and data centers in six markets across the five states of Texas, Colorado, Oregon, Utah, and Nevada, ViaWest has found growth through a combination of managed hosting, cloud services, and colocation. With us today to tell us more about ViaWest’s business and plans for the future is CEO, Chairman, and Co-Founder Roy Dimoff. [Read more →]
Network Bytes: Windstream, Sidera, Megapath, Teliasonera, Level 3
August 2nd, 2012
Time to catch up on some recent network operator news: [Read more →]
Frontier, CBeyond Earn a Bit of Respect
August 1st, 2012
Frontier Communications (NYSE:FTR, news, filings) and cbey each managed a rare feat over the last day or two: turning in a quarter of wireline financial results that actually made the market happy. [Read more →]
Pacific Fibre Gives Up
August 1st, 2012
Pacific Fibre, the proposed next generation submarine cable between New Zealand and California has thrown in the towel, according to an announcement this morning. The company’s board of directors has voted to cease operations, citing an inability to [Read more →]
A Sea-Me-We-5 Alternative In the Works?
August 1st, 2012
Sunil Tagare, the protagonist who helped drive the original FLAG effort that disrupted the global submarine cable industry back in the ’90s, is at it again. He has invited carriers to attend the first investors meeting and DGM for the ‘Tagare Cable’ in Dubai on September 11-13. The Singapore-France system would take on the proposed Sea-Me-We-5 cable, the details of which have been [Read more →]
Level 3 Refinances, Advances on 3 Fronts
August 1st, 2012
Perhaps stung by the market’s reaction to last week’s earnings, Level 3 Communications (NYSE:LVLT, news, filings) has gone on offense this week on multiple fronts – the most interesting one not yet appearing in a press release (oh wait, there it is now). [Read more →]
Fiber M&A: UPN Buys Zito’s Nebraska Fiber
July 31st, 2012
Midwestern fiber builder and operator Unite Private Networks announced an agreement this morning to acquire the Nebraska fiber network of Zito Media. Since getting that infusion from Ridgemont Equity Partners a couple years ago, UPN has been increasingly aggressive in the fiber space- but this is the first time that has manifested itself in the form of M&A. [Read more →]
Savvis Buys Ciber’s ITO Business
July 31st, 2012
Savvis (news, filings) [a subsidiary of CenturyLink (NYSE:CTL, news, filings)] is purchasing the IT outsourcing business of Ciber, giving it greater muscle on the services side of its business to go with its colo and cloud infrastructure. The two companies have been working together since partnering last summer. [Read more →]
Summit Infrastructure Group Launches
July 31st, 2012
With all the consolidation reducing the number of fiber network operators and builders in the space, it’s nice to see one get created now and then. Today Summit Infrastructure Group formally launched, specializing in dark fiber for data center connectivity. [Read more →]
ABRY’s Xand Merges with DBSi
July 31st, 2012
ABRY Partners has acquired yet more internet infrastructure to add to its collection. Xand, which ABRY purchased last october, announced its intention to merge DBSi this morning. The deal follows a merger with Access Northeast just this past Spring. [Read more →]
McNeil/Lehrer Picks Level 3’s Vyvx For Conventions
July 30th, 2012
Level 3 Communications (NYSE:LVLT, news, filings) picked up a key election season video deal at its Vyvx division. McNeil/Lehrer Productions, which produces the PBS NewsHour and handles convention coverage for the public broadcaster, has selected Level 3 to help produce and deliver video coverage for both party conventions this summer. [Read more →]
CenturyLink Adds Metro Connectivity in Charlotte
July 30th, 2012
CenturyLink (NYSE:CTL, news, filings) announced an expansion of its fiber in the Charlotte metro area, adding a ring with connectivity into five data centers and bringing products such as wavelengths, IP transit, and IPVPN directly to more customers there. [Read more →]