Telecom Ramblings

Over on IP Carrier, Gary Kim posted a nice graphic illustrating the growing effects of over-the-top messaging on SMS revenue country-by-country across Europe for the last three years. But I’m struck by how many still phrase this phenomenon as caused by OTT messaging. OTT messaging is the response to the problem, not the cause. [Read more →]

Currency headwinds and a final bit of fallout from the Megaupload incident slowed down growth at Cogent Communications (NASDAQ:CCOI, news, filings) in the first quarter, as the company priced its dividend payment at [Read more →]

A quick survey of some of the other news from network operators from this week, including a contract win for XO, two for Level 3, some more M2M from DT, and cloud progress for NTT: [Read more →]

Faster routes between the Far East and Europe have been a recurring theme lately. With NTT’s traditional Asian strength and its expansion plans in Europe, improving its connectivity between the two is obviously a priority. Indeed, today NTT Communications (NYSE:NTT, news, filings) took action to add a new route and significantly lower latency on its global backbone between London and Hong Kong. [Read more →]

Investors may soon have another datacenter REIT on their hands. CyrusOne, the carrier neutral colocation division of Cincinnati Bell, has filed with the FCC in preparation for an initial public offering as a real estate investment trust.  [Read more →]

Lots of interesting news from the metro fiber sector in the past day or two, let’s take a quick look: [Read more →]

Primus Telecommunications Group (NYSE:PTGI, news, filings) made another M&A move this morning, but in the other direction this time. They announced the acquisition of Globility Communications, a Canadian CLEC that they already held a big stake in.  But perhaps more importantly, they announced new metro fiber buildout plans to go with it. [Read more →]

Inteliquent (NASDAQ:IQNT, news, filings) saw fewer voice minutes on its network in Q2, resulting in numbers that missed expectations and a reduction in full year guidance.  In addition, the company says it has been evaluating strategic alternatives, and is now planning a special one-time dividend to return some cash to shareholders as well as a stock buyback. [Read more →]

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 →]

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 →]

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 →]

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 →]

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Today, TeleCity Group announced its results for the first half of 2012. [Read more →]

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 →]

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 →]}

We have two new listings on the Ramblings’ Jobs Board this week, one from DukeNet and another from Cogent Communications.   [Read more →]

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 →]

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 →]

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 →]

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 →]

Time to catch up on some recent network operator news: [Read more →]

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, 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 →]