KPN Squirms, the Market Yawns, and Slim Gains

June 12th, 2012
 

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 →]

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Tuesday Roundup: Overture, inetwork, Colt, CDGI

June 12th, 2012
 

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

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No Longer Majority Owner, Sprint Reclaims Clearwire Voting Shares

June 11th, 2012
 

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 →]

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NTT Integrates Network Virtualization Into Enterprise Cloud

June 11th, 2012
 

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 →]

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Telefonica Plans Unicom Sale, Reduces China Presence

June 11th, 2012
 

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 →]

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Sidera Aims South, Buys Capacity from Seaborn

June 8th, 2012
 

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 →]

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Friday International Roundup: Hibernia, LION2, Pacnet, Oi

June 8th, 2012
 

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

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Handicapping XO’s Next Stage

June 7th, 2012
 

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 →]

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IPv6 transition could still go wrong: APNIC

June 7th, 2012
 

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 →]

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Vodafone, Telefonica Pool Their UK Networks

June 7th, 2012
 

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 →]

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KDDI, Telehouse Plan Big Chinese Data Center Expansion

June 7th, 2012
 

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 →]

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C&W, Ciena Take HK, Singapore to 100G

June 6th, 2012
 

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 →]

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Data Bytes 6/6: Digital Realty, Akamai, C7, AboveNet, Peer 1

June 6th, 2012
 

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 →]

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IPv6: Do We Have Liftoff Yet?

June 6th, 2012
 

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 →]

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A Distorted Obsession With Netflix Traffic

June 6th, 2012
 

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 →]

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Zayo Strikes Yet Again, Buys FiberGate

June 5th, 2012
 

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 →]

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Int’l Roundup: CFE, Level 3, Hibernia, ChinaCache

June 5th, 2012
 

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

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Netflix Unveils Its Own CDN

June 5th, 2012
 

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 →]

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Monday Bytes: inetwork, Pangaea, Limelight, Inteliquent, GBI

June 4th, 2012
 

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

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MagicJack Preannounces Q2 Fireworks

June 4th, 2012
 

magicJack VocalTec (NASDAQ:CALL, news, filings) is once again trumpeting its results before quarter’s end. The upstart VoIP provider said today that earnings per share over the first two months have already exceeded analyst projections for the full quarter, with all of June now just adding icing on top of the cake. [Read more →]

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Will Carriers Ever Crack the CDN Nut?

June 4th, 2012
 

Last week Dan Rayburn went on at some length about the huge effect the major carriers are still NOT having on the CDN marketplace. Specifically he mentioned how few CDN customers either Verizon or AT&T have relative to the field – they come in way behind not just the leaders but the main pack of challengers as well. Only Level 3 has made a real dent in the sector. [Read more →]

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Bell, Investors Team to Buy Q9

June 4th, 2012
 

Over the weekend, Canada’s BCE, a.k.a. Bell, and three private equity groups have announced an agreement to acquire Q9 Networks.  It’s just the latest example of an incumbent provider acquiring data center assets in order to gain a foothold in the very hot new market of providing cloud-based solutions to the enterprise. [Read more →]

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Friday Roundup: Integra, Interxion, Viawest, NaviSite

June 1st, 2012
 

Time to catch up on the rest of the news before heading off into the weekend. Here’s a quick look at an EoC milestone for Integra, and three colo deals: [Read more →]

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