Here is a series of news bytes covering regional infrastructure expansion projects from this week: [Read more →]
Int’l Bytes: Verne Global, Nokia, DE-CIX, e&, iBasis, Mobily
February 6th, 2025
Interesting news items from Europe, southeast Asia, and the Middle East from the past several days: [Read more →]
Fiber M&A: Gateway, WANRack to Merge
February 5th, 2025
There has been some consolidation activity in the fiber last mile this week. Gateway Fiber and WANRack have announced plans to merge into a national FTTX platform touching 25 states. [Read more →]
Int’l Bytes: CapitaLand, Ooredoo, Sparkle, Cyta, CityFibre
February 4th, 2025
A new data center, a new subsea cable, a new branch, and some FTTH: [Read more →]
Monday Roundup: DE-CIX, Nokia, EXA, Digital Realty, OpenAI, Barracuda
February 3rd, 2025
An upgrade, a new PoP, some datacenter investment, and a subsea cable project gets funded: [Read more →]
Friday Bytes: Boldyn, DataBank, EXA, Macquarie Telecom
January 31st, 2025
Two financial moves and two upgrade projects: [Read more →]
PREDICTING MOBILE SECTOR TRENDS IN 2025
January 31st, 2025
This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Dario Betti & Nicholas Rossman, Mobile Ecosystem Forum
2025 offers the mobile industry the opportunity to redefine possibilities for consumers and businesses alike with enhanced user experiences and fresh revenue streams. However, the sector will also face significant challenges. Here are a few thoughts on what to expect. [Read more →]
Zayo to Buy Crown Castle’s Fiber?
January 30th, 2025

A Reuters report says that Zayo is at the front of the pack of potential buyers for Crown Castle’s fiber and small cell business business. There’s certainly no doubt there is a process underway, as Crown Castle has been trying to figure out what to do with its fiber business for a couple years now and the only question left is how they find the door they seek. And Zayo is perhaps the most obvious potential buyer as well, but they aren’t past the finish line yet. [Read more →]
Wednesday Bytes: Telefonica, DE-CIX, Nokia, 1Global BCN, Adaptiv
January 29th, 2025
A few items, both international and domestic, to catch up with at midweek. [Read more →]
Three IX Upgrade Deals for Nokia
January 28th, 2025
Nokia has revealed three deals in the IX space from around the world. The deals will put more of the company’s gear to work in interconnection fabrics in the UK, in Spain, and in Japan. [Read more →]
Monday Roundup: AT&T, Verizon, ODATA, PAIX
January 27th, 2025
Two interesting items touching legacy infrastructure in the US, some renewable energy, and a data center in a market we don’t hear about much: [Read more →]
The Bear Has a Book: Bandwidth to Drop Soon!
January 24th, 2025

We all know how we got to this modern world of infrastructure in 2025. Or do we? Most of the real stories behind the rise of the fiber business never make it into the public sphere. But in less than two weeks we’re going to be treated to a whole lot more of them when Dan Caruso’s new book drops. [Read more →]
Celebrating Resilience: How Telcos Excelled Amid Rapid Industry Changes
January 24th, 2025

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Dan Rice, Senior Managing Director and Communications and Media industry lead for Accenture in the US
Adapt or Be Forgotten
In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell picked up his telephone prototype and forever changed how the world connects. Fast forward almost 150 years, and the telecom industry is once again standing at the precipice of massive change. But here’s the thing – today, many see telcos as slow movers, lagging the tech giants of the world.
I disagree. [Read more →]
Int’l Bytes: RETN, Sparkle, MainOne, DE-CIX, e&
January 23rd, 2025
Two new global PoPs, a subsea expansion, and a new IX collaboration: [Read more →]
Zayo Targets 5K Route Miles of New Longhaul Fiber
January 22nd, 2025
Zayo has detailed the next wave of longhaul buildouts it will be working on over the next few years, and it’s quite a lot. The communications infrastructure provider says it has more than 5,000 new route miles of fiber in the pipeline. The buildouts are in response to AI-driven data center capacity buildouts, which will inevitably require significant new capacity. [Read more →]
Metro Bytes: Uniti, Bandwidth IG, Lightpath, CityFibre
January 22nd, 2025
Four significant items of metro and last mile fiber news, three from the US and one from the UK: [Read more →]
Tuesday Bytes: SUBCO, FiberSense, STACK, ValorC3, Spencer Building
January 21st, 2025
One subsea item and three bits of data center news: [Read more →]
EXA Makes Subsea Move, Buys Aqua Comms
January 20th, 2025
There has been a significant fiber M&A in the North Atlantic. The pan-European network operator EXA Infrastructure has agreed to acquire Ireland-based Aqua Comms. It’s a rare example of the inorganic purchase of a nearly pure play subsea cable business. [Read more →]
Industry Spotlight: Bluebird CEO Jason Adkins Looks Ahead
January 20th, 2025

The middle mile and metro fiber sector has been an organic story over the past few years after all the M&A in the prior decade. Bluebird Fiber is one of the regional operators that emerged from that era, and backed by Macquarie they have been quietly investing in fiber and data center assets across a footprint centered on Missouri, Illinois, and Iowa. With us today to talk about their approach is Jason Adkins, who was named CEO of Bluebird Fiber in March of 2024. He moved over from UPN, where he was CEO up until the Cox Communications transaction. [Read more →]
Friday Bytes: MOX, Lightpath, Megaport, Globalinx
January 17th, 2025
Multiple network expansion projects from around the world to catch up with: [Read more →]
Colo Roundup: Aligned, Applied Digital, Macquarie, H5, Novacap, STACK
January 16th, 2025
This has been a big week for data center builders in the financial markets. Four data center development companies separately tapped into big money for expansion: [Read more →]
Subsea Bytes: Southern Cross, Ciena, Nokia, Sparkle, OEC
January 15th, 2025
Three items of subsea infrastructure going on this week, two within EMEA and one on the other side of the globe. [Read more →]
Tuesday Roundup: Duos Edge AI, maincubes, DE-CIX, EPB
January 14th, 2025
Interesting items from the data center, interconnection, and quantum realms. [Read more →]