Telecom Ramblings

Happy New Year!  It’s that time of year again to take stock of the M&A landscape in the world of network operators.  Which network operators do you think are most likely to get bought this year?  Last year, we didn’t do so well.  Last year, four of the top ten picks changed hands: FirstLight, Everstream, Cross River Fiber, and Sprint (still pending of course).   [Read more →]

Welcome back everyone!  Some folks at Windstream had a busier holiday week than they probably preferred, as the company finished the year with the sale of a few more non-core assets.  Windstream has sold the legacy EarthLink consumer business to Trive Capital. [Read more →]

After the carnage of last year’s predictions, one might think I’d be gun shy about making more for 2019.  Hiding under a rock definitely sounds like a safer option this year, but I’ll risk it anyway.  I think it’s actually easier to make predictions in chaos, because nobody expects you to have a clue. [Read more →]

After yesterday’s look at the North American network markets, let’s take a jaunt through a few of the infrastructure deals around the world.  I don’t cover every market and certainly don’t claim this to be comprehensive, but this is a quick sampling of what I kept an eye on at least. [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Matt Hiles, Chief Operating Officer at Mosaic NetworX

If your organization is planning on implementing WAN improvements, you might consider SD-WAN and branch Internet last-mile circuits to augment, or replace, your MPLS circuits. In doing so, [Read more →]

It seems like almost year since 2018 began. Oh wait, it actually has been almost a year. The world of infrastructure M&A was a fairly busy one once again, and I’ll bet that many have forgotten swaths of the year’s events. Let’s take a quick look back. [Read more →]

Ok, it’s *almost* time to make predictions for 2019.  But first we have to take a painful look back at my predictions for 2018.  Let’s see how well I did! (This isn’t going to be pretty, the squeamish should cover their eyes…): [Read more →]

This article was authored by Dylan Bushell-Embling, and was originally posted on telecomasia.net.

India’s Reliance Communications has been thrown for a loop after the market’s telecoms ministry refused to approve the company’s deal to sell [Read more →]

Private equity has found another pile of fiber infrastructure to invest in over in the UK. M&G Prudential’s Infracapital has reached an agreement to buy 50% of SSE Enterprise Telecoms for £380m. [Read more →]

In a deal I managed to miss earlier this week, Vantage Data Centers has made a move on the Canadian colo market. They have signed a definitive agreement with Videotron to acquire 4Degrees for $200M. [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Stacey Kuyf, writer and content strategist for atmail

The telecommunications industry is extremely competitive, as telcos race to convert to 5G, migrate to the cloud, implement AI and big data strategies, and ensure [Read more →]

Three bits of metro and regional network news from down south, and one from the Great Lakes: [Read more →]

It has been a year of chaos for Reliance Communications and GCX, but it’s not over yet. In a move that will definitely not help settle things, India’s Department of Telecommunications has denied RCom’s proposed deal to sell spectrum to Reliance Jio. Apparently the regulators won’t promise to not chase Jio for RCom’s unpaid spectrum fees. [Read more →]

A bunch of fiber has changed hands in the Midwest this week. In a pre-Christmas deal, Windstream has sold ‘certain fiber assets’ to Minnesota-based Arvig Enterprises, Inc. [Read more →]

What does Telstra want for Christmas?  Apparently the answer is a bigger share of the Pacific submarine cable business.  The Australian telecommunications provider is doing a deal to buy a quarter of Southern Cross. [Read more →]

Yesterday, Zayo announced plans to add another data center location to its zColo footprint. They are moving into a new facility in New Jersey, or more specifically Piscataway, which an anchor tenant providing the necessary rationale for expansion. [Read more →]

It wasn’t so long ago that the US interconnection business was a closed, secretive place.  That changed with the Open-IX initiative, which opened the doors to both European-style internet exchanges and homegrown regional efforts.  So what is Open-IX doing to follow up on that success?  With us today to talk about the organization’s plans is newly named Executive Director and industry veteran Robert DeVita.  [Read more →]

The Midwest has been pretty dynamic on the M&A front lately, and this morning there was another interesting infrastructure deal. DataBank has announced the acquisition of LightBound. [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was contributed by David W. Wang

At the dawn of 2019, either you are a CEO/CTO/CFO of a firm facing your board of trustees, or a manager of network operations & IT facing your firm’s executive management team, you may run into similar million-dollar questions like: “How are we doing with SDDP? When can we move to SDDP?” [Read more →]

This article was authored by Dylan Bushell-Embling, and was originally posted on telecomasia.net.

The proposed merger between Vodafone Australia and fixed line ISP TPG Telecom could be on rocky ground, after the nation’s competition regulator outlined a number of preliminary competition concerns about its impact on the local telecoms market. [Read more →]

Four items touching five continents (sorry Australia, not today): [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was contributed by Rob Ruehle, VP of Operations at Liquid Technology

E-waste has become an unavoidable facet of the contemporary human lifestyle. Computers, cell phones, televisions and a number of other technological innovations happening daily all serve to connect and enable the world in ways never before imagined. But the life of any given electronic device must end, and [Read more →]

A few interesting expansions of infrastructure and relationships worth noting from this week: [Read more →]