Telecom Ramblings

It didn’t take long for the hypothetical cable/CLEC merger machine to make its first move following the FCC’s recent relaxation of the rules. On the west coast late this week, Wave Broadband and Black Rock Cable announced their plans to merge, bringing together a triple play footprint and a dense metro fiber business under one roof. [Read more →]

A few datacenter and cloud quick takes before everyone goes off for the weekend: [Read more →]

Late yesterday, Inteliquent (NASDAQ:IQNT, news, filings) announced that its CFO, Robert Junkroski, and its President and COO, Surendra Saboo will be stepping down as of October 1. Both will remain on hand for a month to help with the transition, and the company plans to identify a new CFO but doesn’t currently intend to hire a successor to Dr. Saboo.  [Read more →]

Today Zayo said it has finished interconnecting the AboveNet network with its own and achieved a variety of other milestones in the integration, which it has been working on for a little less than a quarter now. It’s a bigger job than any they have attempted before, but in a quarter or two they’ll surely be ready for more. [Read more →]

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

The payoff for mobile broadband services in Asia-Pacific will rely not just on LTE, but a savvy and wide-ranging partnership between operators and OTT players. [Read more →]

When it comes to announcing customer wins, few major network operators have been as quiet this summer as TW Telecom (NASDAQ:TWTC, news, filings) — over three months since the last one in fact.  So yesterday’s release was welcome, detailing a multi-year contract with DP Sciences, a midwestern managed IT services outfit that specializes in the healthcare vertical. [Read more →]

Lots of colo news this week, here’s a roundup of interesting items from Sidera, Digital Realty, Equinix, and QTS. [Read more →]

A few weeks shy of the first anniversary of closing of Level 3’s purchase of Global Crossing, the latter’s former CEO has resurfaced in a somewhat unexpected direction. John Legere has been named Chief Executive Officer at T-Mobile USA, taking over for interim CEO Jim Alling. [Read more →]

Phoenix-based IO won a major convert to its modular datacenter technology from the financial vertical this morning. None other than Goldman Sachs has signed on, with the two entering a long term strategic technology partnership. [Read more →]

This morning Inteliquent (NASDAQ:IQNT, news, filings) announced the establishment of a foothold in Turkey. They have established a Turkish subsidiary and a strategic alliance with Turckcell Superonline. Soon to follow will be a PoP in the Turkcell Superonline data center in Istanbul and [Read more →]

The Japanese telecommunications giant NTT Communications (NYSE:NTT, news, filings) has spent much of the last several years assembling cloud-based capabilities, via both organic and inorganic means. Today they made another of the inorganic moves with the agreement to acquire Centerstance, which helps them on the [Read more →]

Lots of interesting stories from the submarine cable sector in the last day or two. Here’s a quick summary of items from Apollo, Hibernia, AISC, SEACOM, and TI-Sparkle: [Read more →]

Telefonica (NYSE:TEF, news, filings) International Wholesale Services has announced the upgrade of its South America-1 (SAm-1) cable system to 100G technology via Infinera’s new DTN-X platform. TIWS has been using Infinera gear in upgrading its submarine connectivity throughout the region, but this is the first case where they’ve gone for the new [Read more →]

Well, you knew the financial sector wouldn’t wait long for the latest technology, and hence today’s announcement by Spread Networks of its deployment of 100G technology on its ultra-low latency route.   [Read more →]

Here’s a quick review of data center news kicking off the week, with XO at Cobalt,  Ciena at NewTelco, more money for Hurricane Electric, and an unlikely source of funds for Online Tech: [Read more →]

Carrier Ethernet Exchange specialist CENX (news) has found itself yet another big name backer. Today they revealed that the Swedish-based vendor Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC, news, filings) participated in their latest round of financing. Earlier this summer it was [Read more →]

While lately I have been looking at potential fiber M&A outside the US, it has been in Europe, Latin America, and Asia. But last week it became clear that there is a substantial fiber asset availble a bit closer to home, as the alternative Canadian operator MTS said it would be formally reviewing strategic options for its Allstream business.  [Read more →]

We have another new job listing on the Ramblings’ Jobs board this weekend, this time from the profitable, steadily growing national metro fiber operator tw telecom.  TW is looking for a [Read more →]

Before everyone heads out for the weekend, here’s a final roundup of news from fiber operators in the last few days: [Read more →]

Zayo Group finished off its fiscal fourth quarter with its usual steady growth in revenue, EBITDA, and footprint expansion.  Zayo has had a very busy M&A year already.  During the quarter, Zayo closed the purchase of Arialink, and after the quarter ended they closed the purchases of AboveNet and FiberGate.  They still have the USCarrier deal to finish later this year as well, and they started off the year buying MarquisNet.  Here’s a quick table with the relevant data for the quarter ending June 30, 2012.  [Read more →]

This article was authored by Joseph Waring, and was originally posted on telecomasia.net.

The wholesale sector may be suffering, with prices plummeting and volume growth slowing, but you wouldn’t know it by the 1,200 executives who spent the better part of last week in Cebu, Philippines, ironing out bilateral deals with their many partners. [Read more →]

Cloud and CDN giant Akamai (NASDAQ:AKAM, news, filings) made another technology M&A move today, announcing the acquisition of FastSoft. FastSoft provides content accelertion software that optimizes TCP, one of the protocols that underlies the internet, called FastTCP. [Read more →]

Today Equinix (NASDAQ:EQIX, news, filings) announced that its board has approved a plan to convert the company into a real estate investment trust, or REIT. They have been flirting with the idea for years now, as the REIT structure has tax advantages. But I don’t think it will surprise anyone that they decided to pull the trigger and join Digital Realty Trust, Dupont Fabros, and CoreSite amongst others.  Yet it will be a bit different for Equinix, as [Read more →]