Telecom Ramblings

The rumors of a German move by NTT didn’t take long to turn into reality.  Last night the Japanese giant announced plans to acquire a majority stake in e-shelter, suddenly claiming the #3 slot in the European data center market. [Read more →]

According to papers in Japan, NTT is about to duplicate its RagingWire acquisition on the other side of the Atlantic.  The Japanese-based telecommunications giant is said to be in talks to acquire Germany’s e-shelter for about $836M. [Read more →]

After ShoreTel turned up its nose at that unsolicited offer last autumn, Mitel was still hungry for some inorganic growth.  Today they struck again with the announcement of an agreement to acquire Mavenir.   [Read more →]

Akamai has made an inorganic move this icy Monday morning aimed at boosting its capabilities in DNS.  They have acquired Xerocole, whose specialty is recursive DNS. [Read more →]

This article was authored by Don Sambandaraksa, and was originally posted on telecomasia.net.

So in the end Gemalto issued a half-denial fudge of a press release on the reported GCHQ/NSA hacking of SIM encryption keys. [Read more →]

Next week it will be March at last, and perhaps we’ll even see some snow actually melt.  In the meantime, here is a quick look at a bunch of items from this week — assuming of course that Title II doesn’t cause an immediate end to the world.  News from two global networks, one CDN, and three vendors are on tap: [Read more →]

Ok, maybe that title wasn’t the best way to express that particular thought…  But anyhow, the interlude between the striking down of the first net neutrality regulatory regime and the rise of Title II is now apparently over. As widely expected, the FCC has in fact approved new, stronger rules it hopes will stand up to judicial scrutiny.  [Read more →]

The higher profile vote today will be about network neutrality. But the FCC’s vote on a somewhat less widely known issue today may have a more immediate effect. Nobody is on the brink of commercializing a fast lane of any note, but municipal fiber projects have been chomping at the bit for years. [Read more →]

Zayo has filed an S-1 with the SEC that looks at offering some more stock to the markets in a follow-on offering to its October IPO.   [Read more →]

Here’s a quick look at some news from fiber and the cloud from the last day or two: [Read more →]

In its Q4 earnings release this morning, Cogent Communications posted revenues and earnings per share that came in short of analyst projections.  But currency fluctuations held back the top line, and didn’t stop them from increasing their quarterly dividend 3.2% to $0.32 plus a special dividend of another 3 cents. [Read more →]

When the FCC implements its new Network Neutrality framework based on Title II, there will be no Congressional response. According to the New York Times today, Senate Republicans have given up on plans to pass legislation to rein in the agency. That leaves Tom Wheeler and his two Democratic colleagues a clear field ahead of the vote tomorrow. [Read more →]

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

HKBN will today launch an initial public offering seeking to raise up to HK$5.8 billion ($747.8 million), and has reportedly already secured a commitment for $200 million worth of shares. [Read more →]

Here’s a quick roundup of some news from the first part of this week: [Read more →]

This morning Zayo announced the closing of its purchase of Latisys, and along with it came a reconfiguration of the company’s management team to reflect the growing influence of the data center side of its business. [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was contributed by Lee Cottle, Director, VP Global Head of Sales for Push Technology

Five years after Apple first used “There’s an app for that” in a marketing campaign for the iPhone 3, it seems there really is a mobile application for everything, whether it’s helping users transform their morning routines into fitness workouts, or just saying “yo” to friends. [Read more →]

TGIF, and a really cold one here in the Northeast.  Here’s a quick look at some news, a new data center and three interesting bits from vendors: [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Alex Vayl, VP Business Development for NSONE

Website and application delivery has gone through dramatic shifts over the past 25 years. One of the more recent catalysts is a trend towards distributed application deployments, enabled by the advent of IaaS and infrastructure automation, which have dramatically reduced the costs and complexity of deploying applications in multiple markets. [Read more →]

Fresh off its purchase of UNSi this past autumn, GTT has made yet another inorganic move. They announced an agreement today to purchase the managed services business of MegaPath, which caters to large enterprises and multinationals. [Read more →]

On EarthLink’s Q4 earnings call this morning, the company talked pretty frankly about its intentions to sell off network assets to focus more tightly on the managed services side. They are looking at selling off the dark fiber, but not the more general CLEC/network business itself for now. [Read more →]

Here’s a quick rundown of news from around the industry today: [Read more →]

Lots of news from vendors lately, here’s a quick survey:  [Read more →]

Level 3 this morning announced an interesting high profile deal over in Europe, where the company has been looking to rejuvenate its growth of late.  The German automaker BMW has picked them to deliver both fiber and CDN services. [Read more →]