Telecom Ramblings

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

ITEM: The Korea Communications Commission has reportedly made it legal for SK Telecom, KT and LG U+ to charge their customers extra fees to use VoIP apps – or block their use entirely. [Read more →]

NTT Communications (NYSE:NTT, news, filings) is continuing to build out its European network presence. Today they extended their Tier-1 IP network southward into the city of Milan in Italy in response to customer demand.  [Read more →]

Yesterday’s article produced quite a spirited response, both online and offline.  So let’s try a reader poll on the subject.  You know my view, what’s yours? [Read more →]

Here’s a quick look at some other news already this week: [Read more →]

Down in Texas, Alpheus Communications says it is expanding both its workforce and its fiber network to take on the enterprise market. The regional fiber operator has traditionally been more of a wholesale player, with its fairly conservative chief focus having been to sell fiber access to central offices and major aggregation points across the region to larger telecommunications carriers. [Read more →]

As I expected might happen today, Zayo Group (news, filings)‘s purchase of AboveNet is now officially a done deal. Zayo has come a long way from its earliest days picking off lesser known assets like Indiana Fiberworks and Memphis Networx, and is one of the largest fiber operators in the country. They have 61,000 route miles of fiber, 4.6M fiber miles, 20 colo facilities, and about 9,000 on-net buildings.  Of US network operators, only [Read more →]

Level 3 Communications (NYSE:LVLT, news, filings) said this morning that it has launched a new data center service in its Latin American markets. The managed hosting solution is offering usage-based, virtualized computing capacity to enterprise customers, but also guaranteeing resource availability and enabling burst consumption. [Read more →]

If Zayo’s pending purchase of AboveNet says anything, it’s that those islands of underinvested fiber (metro, regional, or intercity) that were orphaned by the hundreds across the USA when the dotcom bubble burst are getting pretty darn scarce. [Read more →]

Job listings have started to pick up again after a slow start to the summer season, which hopefully will be the story in the rest of the economy. This week we saw a new listing posted by OpenCape, the Massachussetts buildout bringing fiber and big bandwidth to Cape Cod. [Read more →]

Time to catch up on some of the other news this week with a few quick looks before everyone goes home for the weekend. [Read more →]

This article is by a new contributor to Telecom Ramblings, Gunnar Oddsson, who has been in the business for the last 17 years, working as a technician, project manager, consultant and a business owner.

On Tuesday, April 4th, 2012, Anton Troianovski wrote an article in The Wall Street Journal titled: “OPTICAL DELUSION? FIBER BOOMS AGAIN, DESPITE BUST.”  [Read more →]

Pan-European operator Colt Group (LON:COLT, news) has turned up its new ultra-low latency route between London and Dublin, bringing the Irish capitol just a bit closer to the rest of Europe when it comes to connectivity. [Read more →]

According to reports, America Movil has succeeded in buying the 27.7% stake it has been aming at. As of yesterday afternoon, it owned 24.91% with another 2.8% on tap, finishing off the planned purchase smoothly and efficiently. [Read more →]

I had a great time at yesterday’s Telecom Exchange event in Manhattan, congrats to Jaymie Scotto & Associates for another awsome event!  Now it’s time to catch up on a bit of the news issued there that I didn’t get to yet, which was focused on colo or connectivity to colo. [Read more →]

Plenty of news this morning, much of which has been timed to coincide with today’s Telecom Exchange event, which I should be physically at when this gets posted. More later on that of course, but first some quick-takes on news from Inteliquent, Cross River, Telehouse, and IceHook. [Read more →]

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

Good news for those of you who find Wi-Fi usage a pain at home and even worse when on the road: Passpoint is here. Almost. [Read more →]

Level 3 Communications (NYSE:LVLT, news, filings) has added two interesting contract wins this week in addition to its French initiative. This is a key summer season for Level 3, as it crosses the midpoint of its 18 month integration cycle for the Global Crossing assets. If they can get those synergies to kick in while posting [Read more →]

Today EdgeCast Networks (news) [a subsidiary of Verizon (NYSE:VZ, news, filings)] enhanced its content delivery network further, leveraging Google’s PageSpeed technology at the edge. That will allow the CDN’s customers to apply Google’s ‘best practice’ optimization techniques at the edge on-the-fly without changing the code underlying their site content.  [Read more →]

I’ve been traveling of course, and am once again operating from NJ.  Time to catch up on some international news for data & telecom: [Read more →]

Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR, news, filings) made a big move over in the UK this morning. They have announced a definite agreement to acquire three data center properties in the greater London metro area, which they refer to as the Sentrum Portfolio.  The price tag comes to a hefty £715.9M, or about $1.1B in cash. [Read more →]

Level 3 Communications (NYSE:LVLT, news, filings) has decided to take on the French enterprise market, expanding the scope of its European operations at a time when the macroeconomic environment is constraining many of the incumbent operators.   [Read more →]

CENX (news) are announcing a new round of funding this morning, adding $9.5M to the company’s coffers. They plan to use the new capital to fuel the next phase of growth powered by the ongoing industry transition from TDM to Ethernet. The new investment was led by Verizon [Read more →]

Sunil Tagare put out a great piece yesterday on the submarine cable industry’s unique ability to spend money, and it got me to thinking that there is a strange juxtaposition here. Somehow we as a global society have gotten to this place where it’s ok to gamble on fiber a mile or two under the waves, but horrifyingly risky to put it a few feet underground. [Read more →]