Telecom Ramblings

The next target of FirstLight Fiber’s steady drumbeat of regional fiber and infrastructure acquisitions has landed. Today the northeastern operator announced a definitive agreement to acquire the network assets of the Keystone Initiative for Network Based Education and Research, or KINBER. [Read more →]

In an interesting M&A move on the wireless front, Verizon made a deal yesterday to purchase Tracfone. The purchase price is $6.25B, half in cash and half in Verizon stock, with another $650M on the table if performance targets are met. [Read more →]

Here’s a set of network infrastructure quick-takes to catch up on: [Read more →]

The big news at CenturyLink that was rumored over the weekend has officially come out. It’s primarily a re-branding rather than anything more drastic, looking to breathe new life into the company’s approach to the market. [Read more →]

There are rumors out there this weekend that CenturyLink is about to shake itself up in a big way this coming week. According to a  now-retracted internal email that is making the rounds out there, it goes something like this: [Read more →]

In the last roundup of the week, here are three contract wins in three different sectors, plus a bit of cloud connectivity. [Read more →]

Four interesting items from vendors to note from the last couple days: [Read more →]

A few network and partnership expansions to note at midweek: [Read more →]

I hope everyone had a good weekend.  While you were gone, here are a few news items from over the weekend or late last week worth catching up on: [Read more →]

Stay safe this Labor Day weekend!  Here’s a quick rundown on some of the news from a wide spectrum of the industry to end the week: [Read more →]

A few interesting items from around the world: [Read more →]

An interesting M&A dance is taking place on the cable side of things over the last day or two. Rogers Communications and Altice USA have made a play for Cogeco and Cogeco Communications, however it started out complicated and it’s swiftly getting more so. [Read more →]

Two executive hires, one 5G milestone, and a bigger link to Moscow: [Read more →]

On today’s news roundup are diamonds, a product launch, a merger, and an outage.  Did I mention the diamonds?  [Read more →]

Today STACK INFRASTRUCTURE made a significant balance sheet move. They have closed on a $325M structured debt financing deal, positioning them for the next stage of the company’s growth. [Read more →]

As we start the week, here are a few regional fiber expansion projects from the end of the last one that slipped past my nets initially: [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by David W Wang

Telecom/IT proves to be the bloodline for business and personal life during the Covid-19 pandemic, and remote work and online orders become the new normal nowadays. As the result we see service providers are having busy backbone traffic and quickly adding up broadband service subscribers globally. [Read more →]

Two network expansions and two items from the vendor space: [Read more →]

Four interesting items from the metro and regional fiber space around the US worth noting at midweek: [Read more →]

Some subsea fiber is changing hands, but from a source we haven’t heard too much about. TampNet, which operates infrastructure under the North Sea, has agreed to acquire a similar asset off of the US coast in the Gulf of Mexico. [Read more →]

Two upgrades in the colo biz, one carve-out, and some interesting M&A maneuvers over in the UK. [Read more →]

This morning Everstream and Windstream announced the operational turn-up of a longhaul 400GbE route. So far 400G has mostly been either within the data center, over short distances, or part of a trial. But the time has finally come to put the technology to work between cities. [Read more →]

The data center space has evolved rapidly over the last few years, driven by the insatiable appetite from the hyperscale and cloud community.  As a result, new participants have risen up with new ways of building and operating data centers.  One such company is STACK INFRASTRUCTURE.  With us today to talk about STACK’s current projects and its approach to the marketplace is the company’s Chief Strategy Officer, Matt VanderZanden.

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