Telecom Ramblings

Another acquisition by Cologix, a new product for Interoute, and then a contract each for QTS, C7, and Digital Realty: [Read more →]

While the headlines are filled with the data sharing aspects of the new pricing structure announced by Verizon Wireless yesterday, I think the key change is more subtle. Verizon’s new plan finally finishes admitting that basing its business model on overcharging for voice and messaging bits while complaining about how expensive it is to build out bigger data pipes was distorting the market to its own detriment. [Read more →]

Several interesting items from outside the US this morning that are worth a look from Level 3, Interxion, Savvis, and Interoute: [Read more →]

Verizon (NYSE:VZ, news, filings) must be starting to fill up those 100G transport pipes it has been slowly rolling out across its footprint. Today they announced plans to deploy Juniper’s giant PTX series MPLS switching platform as a next step in the evolution of their network architecture. [Read more →]

According to reports, America Movil has increased its ownership stake in the Dutch incumbent KPN to 7.3% already. Carlos Slim is obviously putting his money where his mouth is, having acquired some 6M shares yesterday in the open market at a price of €7.80. That’s below the €8 price he recently offered to take a 27.7% stake in the company, which KPN gave [Read more →]

Today’s roundup offers quick-takes on news already this week from Overture, inetwork, Colt, and CDGI. [Read more →]

Following Clearwire’s balance sheet moves over the winter, Sprint’s ownership stake in the company has fallen below the 50% threshold. The company says, therefore, it is reclaiming its full voting rights since it is no longer at risk of [Read more →]

The Japanese telecommunications giant NTT Communications (NYSE:NTT, news, filings) opened a new front in its effort to build a global cloud presence. Today the company announced the imminent launch of a new enterprise cloud service that incorporates OpenFlow network virtualization technology. [Read more →]

China Unicom said in an announcement today that its second-largest shareholder, Telefonica, plans to sell more than a billion shares of the company’s stock back to the Chinese carrier’s parent company. The move comes just 17 months after the two companies increased their mutual holdings of each others stock, and probably reflects the shifts in [Read more →]

Following up its extensions to London and Toronto, sidera is adding additional submarine capacity to its network. They will be acquiring capacity on Seaborn Networks’ planned Seabras-1 system between the US and Sao Paolo, Brazil, planning to have in place the lowest latency route when it goes online in [Read more →]

A few quick-takes on news from overseas in the past day or two from Hibernia Atlantic, LION2, Pacnet, and Oi: [Read more →]

Ok, I’ve been asked enough times now to update my opinion about where XO goes from here, although I don’t think the situation has changed all that much. Given the astonishing length and duration of the comment thread on the Layoffs at XO post, it has been clear that there are strong feelings involved.  But Icahn will sooner or later make a move, and it still [Read more →]

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

This time last year, big-name web content providers such as Google, Facebook, YouTube, and Yahoo! supported both IPv6 and IPv4 for 24 hours to test the impact on service quality. [Read more →]

The UK telecommunications market has been very much in flux for a few years now, and today there was another twist. The UK mobile divisions of Vodafone Group (NYSE:VOD, news, filings) and Telefonica (NYSE:TEF, news, filings) have now announced their intention to formally join forces at the infrastructure level – a major redesign of their existing partnership.  [Read more →]

Japanese powerhouse KDDI and its colocation arm, TELEHOUSE revealed some big expansion plans for the Chinese colocation market. And I don’t mean just Hong Kong where they will be adding to an already active expansion project, but Beijing too this time with a new build.  The price tag of  the expansion will amount to ¥11B, or about $140M.    [Read more →]

cw may be in the midst of a buyout process with Vodafone Group (NYSE:VOD, news, filings) but they’re continuing to push ahead in network deployment.  Today they announced the migration of their metro networks in Hong Kong and Singapore to 100G, giving their assets in the Far East a necessary [Read more →]

Quick takes on some expansion news from Digital Realty and C7, an acquisition by Peer 1, another contract for Akamai, and the results of the shareholder vote at Abovenet: [Read more →]

Today is World IPv6 Day again, but this time participants are doing more than testing things for a day.  This time, when they launch the switch stays on.  Or at least it does for those who are ready, which hopefully will be enough to start a tiny little snowball rolling.  What do you think are we there yet? [Read more →]

The news that Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX, news, filings) is building its own CDN infrastructure gave the markets a chance to do what do best: overreact. There’s always a company or two out there at any given time whose every action gets obsessed over like this, and for the past two years [Read more →]

Zayo certainly has a bottomless appetite for metro fiber.  With the Arialink deal on the books for just one month and the AboveNet deal set to close in the next month or two, the company struck yet again with a big Mid-Atlantic purchase.  Zayo said today that it is buying privately held FiberGate, boosting its presence in Washington DC and the surrounding region in a big way.   [Read more →]

A few interesting items from overseas that are worth a quick look from Mexico’s CFE, Level 3, Hibernia Atlantic, and ChinaCache: [Read more →]

It had to happen sooner or later, but I’ll bet some in the CDN sector were hoping it would be a bit later than this. Yesterday Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX, news, filings) took the wrappings off its Open Connect Network, a special purpose in-house CDN designed to eventually take over the bulk of its content delivery needs over the next few years.  [Read more →]

A few quick takes on other news today and over the weekend from inetwork, Pangaea Networks, Limelight, Inteliquent, and Gulf Bridge International: [Read more →]