Telecom Ramblings

Earlier this month, Indiana suddenly saw the birth of two new consortium-based network operators: Hoosier Net and Accord. One can be forgiven for wondering why they didn’t just sit down at the same table, because last week that’s exactly what they did. [Read more →]

The past several years have been undeniably eventful for GTT.  After a decade of acquisitions, the company ran aground a bit a few years ago, culminating in the sale of the European infrastructure assets and a restructuring.  But all that is pretty much behind them and the new GTT looks a lot healthier and leaner than it ever has.  With a new management team in place, the company is setting its sights on the global enterprise space.  With us to tell us about GTT’s journey and its plans to tackle the future is COO and industry veteran Don MacNeil. [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Ramiro Nobre, vice president of global strategy and solutions, Accedian

Unplanned downtime – even for a few minutes – is costly and disruptive in this age of sophisticated and interconnected networks. Interruptions in performance can resonate across the ecosystem. The cost per hour of downtime has risen to more than $300,000 for 91% of small, mid-sized and large businesses, according to an ITIC study. That’s a steep price tag, but it doesn’t have to be that way. [Read more →]

Four expansion items in four markets of note this week: [Read more →]

A few interesting items from around the industry to catch up with at midweek: [Read more →]

A recapitalization, an upgrade project, a data center real estate move, and some M&A worth noting: [Read more →]

The cloud and managed service provider space has been a dynamic environment over the past few years as technology races to keep up with changes in the enterprise marketplace.  With the workforce shifting from corporate campuses out to suburban homes, enterprises have increasingly had to lean on such providers to help make rapid transitions.  One of those out there in the trenches is Xtel Communications, which has charted an independent and organic path through most of the last three.  With us today to talk about the company’s approach and outlook on the industry is Xtel’s President, Brian Flynn. [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Eli Katz, CEO at XConnect

International robocalling impacts the entire telecoms value chain from carriers to consumers. To help prevent robocalls that are initiated from outside the US, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has recently expanded on the existing domestic stir shaken solutions to now include internationally originated calls terminating into the US and US gateway providers must now take [Read more →]

Three regional expansion moves and a new regional fiber player in the Midwest: [Read more →]

Four items from the data center space worth keeping up with: [Read more →]

Two vendor wins and a new joint venture: [Read more →]

Aqua Comms has lined up the one key bit that every subsea cable between Europe and India needs in place before truly getting things moving for the Europe Middle-East India Connect 1 cable system. They have signed an agreement with Telecom Egypt to make the hop between the Mediterranean and Red Seas. [Read more →]

A few expansion projects from late last week as we get rolling this Monday morning: [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Wade Anderson, Vice President of SME, IQGeo

The increased reliance on the internet across all major industries has seen the telecom sector grow exponentially over the last decade. This reliance has been fueled further by the pandemic – with people now requiring reliable, high-speed internet to work away from the office, thus leading to a high demand for [Read more →]

A network upgrade, some FTTH expansions, an NNI, and a new data center: [Read more →]

STACK Infrastructure’s expansion plans have taken it to a new continent again. Yesterday the data center developer and operator announced a new partnership with the Australian real estate developer Hickory. The arrangement enables new plans for big infrastructure projects across Australia. [Read more →]

Four expansion projects, two in the data center space and two of the network buildout variety: [Read more →]

Bandwidth IG has moved into a third metro dark fiber market. Following the company’s dark fiber network rollouts in the San Francisco Bay Area and in Greater Atlanta, the company has announced its presence in Greater Portland, Oregon. [Read more →]

Three bits of news about three very different large scale expansion projects: [Read more →]

Three infrastructure projects from three parts of the world and three sectors of the industry: [Read more →]

Four bits of interesting infrastructure news to catch up on before the weekend: [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Rashida Salahuddin, President & CEO of The Corporate Citizenship Project

Ever since the U.S Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed rules governing climate-related disclosures from all public companies on March 21, environmental, social, and governance (ESG) reporting has become a necessary part for telecom company corporate boards to address, especially in today’s environmentally and socially conscious world. [Read more →]

Indiana now has a new regional fiber option. A group of 17 ILECs has banded together to form Hoosier Net, pooling their resources to create a state-wide, middle-mile fiber network operator. [Read more →]