Telecom Ramblings

With the AboveNet purchase waiting in the wings, Zayo Group (news, filings) today cleared its plate of other matters. They have announced the completion of the integration of the longhaul network assets of 360networks. [Read more →]

With its position on the Northeastern corridor plus Chicago, Sidera Networks’ regional and metro fiber assets give it a premier position in the sector, especially when it comes to the financial services vertical. With us today to talk about Sidera’s current activities and plans for the future is their new President, Clint Heiden. Clint previously drove the fiber businesses of PAETEC and Intellifiber, and joined Sidera back in December. [Read more →]

Carrier neutral datacenter provider Equinix (NASDAQ:EQIX, news, filings) turned in a powerful first quarter this morning.  Revenues, EBITDA, and earnings were each above expectations, and the company increased guidance to match.  On the expansion front, they announced plans for their third Miami-area data center.  Here is a quick tabular summary: [Read more →]

Akamai (NASDAQ:AKAM, news, filings) turned in a strong first quarter, but rattled the markets a bit with some succession news.  CEO Paul Sagan is planning to leave the company by the end of 2013, staying on for the transition period until a successor can be brought in.  Here is a quick table of Q1 results in some context: [Read more →]

With the company busy spending to build out LTE, expectations for Sprint Nextel (NYSE:S, news, filings) to beat estimates in the first quarter weren’t high, but that’s what they did this morning. Revenues of $8.73B were slightly higher than expected, while the net loss per share of $0.29 easily better than the composite analyst guess of $0.41.  The markets seem to [Read more →]

After a dismal winter for Juniper Networks (NASDAQ:JNPR, news, filings) with weak Q4 results and weaker Q1 projections, the last thing I expected from the company was a reasonable quarter.  But in fact they easily beat those low goalposts they had erected.  Revenues of $1032.5M came in well ahead of their prior projections of $960-990M, while earnings per share came in above the edge of their range.  Here’s a quick summary of the relevant data in some context: [Read more →]

Here’s a quick survey of some recent items from US competitive operators: [Read more →]

Global telecommunications giant AT&T (NYSE:T, news, filings) turned in its Q1 earnings report this morning, checking in with revenues of $31.8B and diluted earnings per share of $0.60, the former being in line and the latter being three pennies above expectations. [Read more →]

This article was authored by Grace In Mono, and was originally posted on telecomasia.net.

In this interconnected world, no economy can grow without the internet. Several studies have shown that a 10% increase in broadband penetration could improve gross domestic product (GDP) and labor productivity, especially in low– and middle-income countries. But apart from access, the quality of connection defines  [Read more →]

Lots of news to start the week already, here’s a quick look at some interesting bits from Fibertech, Sparkle, Level 3, Telx, and SegTel: [Read more →]

Perseus Telecom and Reliance Globalcom say they have teamed up to take the leading position in the transatlantic latency race away from Level 3’s AC-1 route, which had held the position for some time. The two have launched the QuanTA system, which leverages Flag Atlantic’s northern cable, the latest advances in optical technology, dispersion compensation methodology, and processing equipment, and of course shorter routes. [Read more →]

After more than two months of consideration and a challenge from Tata Communications (news, filings), Vodafone Group (NYSE:VOD, news, filings) said this morning that it has reached an agreement to buy cw.  They had received a three day extension on Friday, which seemed to indicate the tying up of loose ends on a bid.  The purchase will give Vodafone a substantial enterprise-focused fiber footprint in the UK that will help them scale their mobile backhaul infrastructure. [Read more →]

Pan-European network operator and cloud services provider Interoute offered a window into its 2011 performance this morning. The company found growth in both its network and cloud businesses, and revenues surged all the way to €366M, 24% higher than the prior year despite the continent’s overall macroeconomic malaise. EBITDA and earnings also rose to [Read more →]

Data center REIT CoreSite (NYSE:COR, news, filings) hit the acquisition trail today and entered their eighth US market.  They have purchased Comfluent, a carrier-neutral, network-centric colocation provider located in Denver.  Comfluent provides colocation space and cross connects across 9,300 square feet at 910 15th and Pearl Plaza, including [Read more →]

Time for a poll, what do you think? [Read more →]

For the past year, the mantra of the large wireless carriers has been of a looming spectrum crisis.   It was the biggest reason AT&T put forward to push through its bid for T-Mobile USA, and it helped LightSquared make its case that making its spectrum available would help add competition to the market.  Both efforts went down in flames, and now Verizon is also dancing a bit to convince regulators to let it buy a pile of AWS spectrum from the cable companies by offering to sell other spectrum – this time in the 700Mhz A/B bands. [Read more →]

Time to catch up on some other noteworthy news from this week from inetwork, Enventis, Broadsoft, and Telco Systems: [Read more →]

Yesterday in New Delhi, yet another giant international submarine cable project was unveiled. The BRICS cable project would hook up Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa to the US. If you’re a map freak like me, you’ve now got a globe in your head on which you can’t figure out just what route we’re talking about. [Read more →]

Two announcements by Level 3 Communications (NYSE:LVLT, news, filings) this week show the two sides of Level 3’s efforts to boost its growth in Europe in what has been a very persistetly tough economic environment. [Read more →]

Telecommunications giant Verizon (NYSE:VZ, news, filings) reported its first quarter 2012 earnings this morning, coming in slightly stronger than expected overall. Revenues of $28.24B were slightly ahead of expectations, while earnings per share of $0.59 beat composite analyst projections by a penny. The market is pleased thus far, with the stock up about [Read more →]

Yesterday Tata Communications (news, filings) took itself out of the auction for cw, after the two companies were unable to come to terms on a price. Tata had inserted itself into the process in late February after Vodafone Group (NYSE:VOD, news, filings)‘s initial expression of interest two weeks earlier. I had thought Tata might have a better fit than Vodafone, but of course C&W has [Read more →]

Zayo, of course.   This morning AboveNet announced that the go-shop provision that was part of its merger agreement with Zayo has expired.  No additional bids were received, and therefore it looks like the deal will in fact go through as originally envisioned.  There had been no serious talk of another bid (that I heard anyway), and indeed it was hard to come up with a bidder with both [Read more →]

Telecommunications giant Verizon (NYSE:VZ, news, filings) this morning introduced a newly enhanced low latency offering on the crucial New York City to Chicago route. They’re targeting the high speed trading segment of course, with CME Group being one of the first to take advantage of it out in Aurora, Illinois. And Verizon provided an actual latency number for the new service: as low as [Read more →]