Telecom Ramblings

Here’s another quick rundown of news from the metro side of things in the past few days: [Read more →]

European telecommunications markets got a bit of the consolidation they have been looking for this morning, as Teliasonera has agreed to buy Tele2’s Norwegian business. The deal will cost the Nordic giant approximately $744M, and will give its existing Norwegian business the scale to better take on Telenor.  [Read more →]

This article was authored by Phil Marshall, and was originally posted on telecomasia.net.

For many years, web content has been transported over the Internet using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol version 1.1 (HTTP/1.1), running on the [Read more →]

This week the Ramblings’ Jobs Board is still sporting a dozen and a half job listings, with a new one this week from GTT. [Read more →]

Yesterday, Zayo and its private equity backers finally took a big step toward the IPO that many have anticipated for some time. The S-1 for Zayo Group Holdings has now been filed with the SEC. [Read more →]

In a bit of data center M&A today as we head into the long July 4 weekend, QTS has bought itself a second data center in New Jersey. And along with the $75M purchase comes a rather unique item: a 50 acre, 14.1MW solar farm. [Read more →]

Zayo crossed another asset off its bottomless shopping list, announcing today the acquisition of another data center business. They have bought Colo Facilities Atlanta, better known as AtlantaNAP. [Read more →]

Vodafone has found another place to put a bit of that cash hoard it gained from the Verizon Wireless deal, and it’s organic this time. They’ve formed a joint venture with the Irish power utility ESB to build out fiber to a half million premises across 50 towns in Ireland. [Read more →]

According to TechCrunch this morning, faced with the twin options of going it alone or tying up with a tech giant with deeper pockets, Rackspace just may pick door number three.  The company’s board is reportedly taking a serious look at simply going private, with the help of private equity of course, and they could even make the announcement this week. [Read more →]

Internap is taking its bare metal cloud overseas, establishing additional beachheads on the other side of both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. They’re expanding the platform into their existing London and Hong Kong data centers. Along with Singapore and Amsterdam, that gives them two each in the far east and in Europe to go with three US markets. [Read more →]

Here’s a quick look at some other metro and regional fiber news already out this week: [Read more →]

Texas metro and regional operator Alpheus says it is expanding its fiber footprint within two of its key markets.  They hope to bring as many as than 3,000 buildings in key parts of Dallas/Fort Worth and Houston onto their network. [Read more →]

Two publicly held regional network operators are joining forces according to an announcement this morning. Consolidated Communications and Enventis have agreed to an all stock transaction, with Consolidated buying Enventis’s outstanding shares for a sum total of $350M. [Read more →]

Here’s a quick look at some of the news from the colo sector from late last week and over the weekend: [Read more →]

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

Edward Snowden may be somewhere in Russia, but he might as well have been in Singapore waltzing along the halls of CommunicAsia 2014. He was on everyone’s lips, the NSA spying revelations having shaken the industry to the core over the past year. [Read more →]

Ah, it’s good to be back in the US after another long stint abroad. I’m almost past the jet lag, so here’s a quick Friday roundup before the weekend gets rolling: [Read more →]

Two announcements hit the wires for Zayo yesterday.  No, not another deal yet, though there’s always tomorrow.  Zayo is working on a longhaul upgrade in Europe and picked up a key research & education contract back in the USA. [Read more →]

Is it a symbolic move or the start of a pattern? With yesterdays’s news came the most direct response from a European government to the telecommunications industry in the wake of the NSA/Snowden revelations. Verizon’s German subsidiary has lost a contract for internet access and other services with the German government over the issue, with reports about German sources tying it directly to fears over further potential spying. [Read more →]

I am still striving to gain more detailed knowledge of the European fiber market, and it’s always interesting to run across another substantial builder and operator of dark fiber that is entirely new to me.  This week France’s SIPARTECH announced the completion of several milestones for their Paris metro area dark fiber network. [Read more →]

In another interesting development in the CDN world, Tata Communications is making a move deeper into the video business through a partnership with Kaltura. The arrangement will see Tata’s content delivery network paired with Kaltura’s open source online video platform, creating an end-to-end service that could be worth more than the sum of its parts. [Read more →]

We’ve seen various network operators build CDN infrastructure over the years, but how about a data center and cloud operator? NYI yesterday did just that, launching its Fault Tolerant Web service. [Read more →]

I’m at the Telecom Exchange today, if you’re there too then feel free to look me up.  In the meantime, here’s a few quick takes on news from the international front: [Read more →]

This article was authored by John C. Tanner, and was originally posted on telecomasia.net.

Random stat of the day: mobile users in China are now sending less than two SMSs per day. [Read more →]