Telecom Ramblings

Late last week there was another fiber M&A that slipped through my nets for a couple days. The European private equity firm EQT Infrastructure has bought a majority stake in Spirit Communications.  [Read more →]

For the past several years, Telecom Ramblings has been a proud sponsor of a charity golf tournament raising money for the Mighty Oakes Heart Foundation.  Originally held by PEG Bandwidth and continued by Uniti Fiber, they’ll be holding the fifth annual such event this autumn. [Read more →]

One has to wonder what perfume Charter is wearing these days. Verizon is said to have kicked the tires and had a bid rejected. Softbank has been looking to combine the cable operator with Sprint somehow, though they don’t seem to have gotten very far yet either. And now it’s Altice that has apparently been drawn to Charter’s charms. [Read more →]

Here’s a quick rundown of some other news from the last 24 hours or so: [Read more →]

Hudson Fiber Network is expanding its global reach with some help from Epsilon.  The two announced a broader partnership that will add to Hudson Fiber’s reach in both Asia and Europe. [Read more →]

The project to connect the continents of Africa and South America via a subsea fiber cable has officially been launched.  Yesterday Angola Cables kicked off construction of one of the key infrastructure pieces of SACS. [Read more →]

Here’s a quick rundown on some other news from this week that’s worth a look: [Read more →]

Tata Communications and CoreSite have forged a new relationship. The two companies say they have joined forces to bring a combined data center, interconnection, managed hosting, and cloud enablement to the enterprise marketplace. [Read more →]

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

Japan’s NTT, KDDI and Sumitomo have set a new transmission capacity record of 118.5Tbps over conventional thickness optical fiber. [Read more →]

Here’s a quick look at some news from early this week and late last week: [Read more →]

This is the second installment in a multi-part Industry Viewpoint series about the relationship between carriers and smart cities initiatives by Brian Proffit. Proffit recently joined Adtell as vice president of Smart Cities Infrastructure. 

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…

I opened this series with a quote from Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities. My aim here was to illustrate the polar extremes [Read more →]

Let’s take a quick tour through a few other other earnings reports from network operators from yesterday: [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Dan Faulkner, Senior Vice President & GM at Nuance Communications

We’ve all heard the saying “don’t sweat the small stuff” – there are hundreds of books, websites, and speeches dedicated to the topic (along with an army of t-shirts and tchotchkes).  The philosophy is built around [Read more →]

Lots of earnings reports out this morning, apparently it’s a popular day.  Over in Europe, euNetworks posted a strong growth quarter in the bandwidth infrastructure space.  Here are their numbers in some context: [Read more →]

With the CenturyLink deal inching closer every day, this is probably the last pure Level 3 earnings report to cover.  Level 3 had a good second quarter, seeing its third consecutive quarter of CNS revenue growth and beating analyst expectations on the bottom line.  Here are Level 3’s numbers in some context: [Read more →]

The next big telecommunications and infrastructure purchasing vehicle for the US Government has been awarded.  The GSA’s Enterprise Infrastructure Solution contract has some 10 winners, which means it’s the usual suspects plus a few one might not have expected. [Read more →]

The rumors were true, as they always seem to be of late.  There are few true secrets in fiber M&A these days it seems.  After the markets closed today, Verizon announced the purchase of a fiber network in Chicago from WideOpenWest. [Read more →]

Here’s some other network news from the start of this week that’s worth a look: [Read more →]

Here’s some quick takes on infrastructure news to start the week on: [Read more →]

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

Hutchison Telecommunications Hong Kong Holdings (HTHKH) has arranged to sell its global fixed line division Hutchison Global Communications (HGC) to global infrastructure investment company I Squared Capital. [Read more →]

Charter has poured cold water on the latest idea from over at Sprint.  Over the weekend, reports emerged of a proposal by Softbank Chairman Masayoshi Son that would have seen Charter merge with Sprint, after which the combined entity would then make a bid for T-Mobile US. [Read more →]

A significant chunk of data center space out in Denver is changing hands according to a press release this morning.  Iron Mountain has agreed to purchase MAG DATACENTERS, which itself operates FORTRUST. [Read more →]

TGIF. It’s been a long month for me, I’m looking forward to a more relaxing August.  Here’s a quick rundown of some other news from this week that’s worth a look: [Read more →]