Telecom Ramblings

This Industry Viewpoint was contributed by Matt Walker, Founder & Lead Analyst, MTN Consulting, LLC (https://mtnconsulting.biz/)

The first sizable telcos reported 3Q17 earnings this morning: Verizon and Rogers. Both can point to reassuring bottom line results. For the 9 months ended September, operating & net margins improved year-over-year, as did [Read more →]

Yesterday, GTT Communications announced a series of new low latency routes around the globe, and simultaneously launched a new time synchronization service.   [Read more →]

The pan-African network operator Liquid Telecom has found a new way to expand its fiber footprint in eastern Africa.  They have struck up a 10-year partnership deal with Kenya Electricity Transmission Company, or KETRACO.   [Read more →]

Here are a few news mid-week news items: [Read more →]

Here’s some fiber, subsea, and colo news from the start of this week: [Read more →]

Late last week, an infrastructure M&A rumor managed to slip past my nets. The pan-European network and cloud infrastructure operator Interoute was revealed have brought in Credit Suisse and Evercore to help evaluate a sale of the company. [Read more →]

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

PLDT has announced plans to invest in a Philippines link for the Asia-Africa-Europe 1 (AAE-1) subsea cable system. [Read more →]

Another week has passed which means another incremental revelation about the likely deal between T-Mobile US and Sprint. This week’s installment comes from Reuters, which reports that the two wireless companies are aiming to announce a merger agreement that includes neither plans to sell assets nor a cap on possible divestments. [Read more →]

TGIF.  Here’s some quick takes on infrastructure news from around the world: [Read more →]

Four customer and partnership wins, two in the US and two over in the UK: [Read more →]

The buildout of the Hawaiki cable system continues to march along.  Yesterday morning the project achieved a key milestone, landing the cable in Pacific City, Oregon.   [Read more →]

Akamai has found an acquisition target aimed at boosting its portfolio further. The cloud and content delivery giant has announced an agreement to acquire Nominum. [Read more →]

Vantage Data Centers has announced plans to enter the northern Virginia data center market.  The company has acquired 42 acres in Ashburn, and is planning to build out a 5-building campus. [Read more →]

A transport deal, two deployments, and an M&A close to peruse this Tuesday morning: [Read more →]

The world’s least secret courtship is getting closer to engagement time. According to a report by Bloomberg over the long weekend, the two companies are now ‘putting the finishing touches on’ a merger plan. [Read more →]

This article was authored by Fiona Chau, and was originally posted on telecomasia.net.

Open source continues to upend traditional supplier-operator relationships as Tier 1 operators explore ways to scale NFV and SDN deployments, according to TBR’s [Read more →]

Here is some data center M&A to kick off the week. Equinix announced this morning that it has acquired the Zenium data center business in Istanbul, Turkey, and renamed it as IS2. [Read more →]

Two bits of news from the data center world, one from VoIP, and one under the waves: [Read more →]

Reports out of Richmond say that Facebook is moving in next door.  The tech giant is said to be building a $1B data center in eastern Henrico County, a few miles east of town. [Read more →]

A few expansions and upgrades worth noting: [Read more →]

The network space saw another M&A hit the wires this morning.  GTT Communications has announced the acquisition of the managed services provider Transbeam. [Read more →]

A few quick-takes: [Read more →]

This article was authored by Jouko Ahvenainen, and was originally posted on telecomasia.net.

Everyone today knows data has a lot of value. Ten years ago, we developed a market slogan for our then data analytics company – “data is the black gold of the 21^st century.” Nowadays, almost all companies share that sentiment. But it is not so simple. [Read more →]