One M&A and three other bits of news to catch up with in the last mile:
There is a bit of M&A in the regional fiber space. Grain Management has announced an agreement to sell Hunter Communications to Oak Hill Capital. Grain bought into Hunter in 2020, helping the company build out its 3,000+ route miles of fiber network in the Pacific Northwest. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Mac Mountain has launched a new operational division called LightCraft. LightCraft will manage the operations of the company’s broadband partners. The idea is to help municipalities, utilities, developers, and regional ISPs avoid the fate we often see, where the glow of newly built infrastructure meets the realities of daily operation.
Ripple Fiber has unveiled bigger plans up in Massachusetts. The last mile provider will be building out infrastructure in the town of Merrimac. That’s up in the northeast on the New Hampshire border, more than an hour away from its existing projects just north of Worcester. They are partnering with the Merrimac Municipal Light Department and have 3,000 households in mind.
And Helium Network is taking its people-powered last mile wireless efforts to Brazil. They have teamed up with Mambo WiFi, giving them some 40K hotspots to work with. That will add to the 120K hotspots in the US and Mexico with which Helium enables people to deploy their own devices as mini cell towers.
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