Telecom Ramblings

Some major new fiber may get built in the Democratic Republic of Congo over the next few years. The pan-African provider Liquid Intelligent Technologies is teaming up with none other than Facebook to build out longhaul and metro fiber throughout the country. [Read more →]

Four bits of infrastructure teamwork to catch up on before heading home for the long weekend (at least here in the US). [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Darach Beirne, vice president of customer success at Flowroute, now part of Intrado

Voice calls have always had a role to play in powering connections between brands and customers. However, the rise of newer communication mediums such as instant messaging and video chat led some naysayers to question the relevance of traditional calling. [Read more →]

Three bits of interesting M&A news from three different corners of the industry, and an update from the MEF: [Read more →]

Fresh off its entrance into Boston via inorganic means, Lightpath is also taking on another borough of the big Apple. Yesterday the metro fiber operator announced plans for a significant fiber buildout in Queens NY. [Read more →]

Several network expansions and upgrades worth keeping up with, one in the US, and the others over in APAC. [Read more →]

A few more interesting expansions and partnerships worth catching up on: [Read more →]

Quantum Loophole and TPG Real Estate have some big plans for Frederick County, Maryland. The area lies just north and west of the data center clusters of Ashburn in Virginia and of course just upstream along the Potomac of DC itself. [Read more →]

The wireless infrastructure space saw some consolidation yesterday. BAI Communications says it has agreed to acquire Mobilitie, accelerating its efforts in US infrastructure markets. [Read more →]

Fresh out from under the umbrella of Reliance and clear of the bankruptcy process, Global Cloud Xchange (GCX) has emerged as an independent force in the subsea and global managed services business.  With new leadership in place, the company has been reformulating its approach as it looks ahead despite the pandemic and all that goes with it.  With us today to talk about GCX’s plans for 2021 and beyond is Chief Strategy and Revenue Officer Jim Fagan.  We last talked to Jim eight years ago when he was at Pacnet, which later became part of Telstra. [Read more →]

Four regional projects on two continents worth making note of: [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Amr Ibrahim, Founder & CEO at ULTATEL

In 2021, the thought of a team huddled around a speaker on an audio conference call almost seems archaic, but it wasn’t long ago that this was the status quo.

Then 2020 came along and blew everything up. [Read more →]

A route launch, an energy milestone, and two non-core asset sales moves: [Read more →]

One M&A and three network rollout projects. [Read more →]

A data center launch plus three 5G moves: [Read more →]

The data center and interconnection provider Cologix offered up an interesting update on its Canadian business yesterday. Reporting 22% growth last year in the country, the company has made a small inorganic move out in Vancouver and will be expanding its Toronto footprint. [Read more →]

The East Micronesia Cable project has stalled in the face of a global political stalemate. The project, which is led by the World Bank, decided not to award the contract to any of its three bidders. [Read more →]

A couple deals, a data center upgrade, and a UC product expansion.  Verizon has won some significant federal business this week. [Read more →]

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Steven Raucher, co-founder and CEO of RapidDeploy

The commercial world continues to leap forward, driven by data and information in exciting and innovative ways, but the public safety industry – whose critical mission and need for reliability and resiliency often preclude taking a risk on new and exciting technology –  has not kept pace. This is especially true for 9-1-1 response centers, where telecommunicators and first responders lack [Read more →]

Three data center moves plus a media infrastructure acquisition from around the world: [Read more →]

The Boston metro area has a new competitor when it comes to metro fiber infrastructure.  This morning Lightpath has announced three acquisitions that will take it into the major northeastern market in force, taking it beyond the New York/New Jersey metro area for the first time. [Read more →]

Four network expansion projects, both global and local: [Read more →]

Several interesting items from over the weekend or late last week to catch up on: [Read more →]