Telecom Ramblings

I was on the road yesterday travelling up I-95 from Florida to NJ, so of course that's when the long-awaited Crown Castle deal came down at last.  And so it has happened, Lightower Fiber Networks has agreed to be acquired by Crown Castle International for $7.1B in cash. [Read more →]

The voice business these days lives mostly either in the cloud or in the past.  Companies that specialize in the former are young and hungry and often not household names.  One of those is netsapiens, which has built a platform for cloud communications that underlies the offerings of many service providers today.   With us today to discuss netsapiens’ approach to VoIP and cloud communications is co-founder and CEO Anand Buch.  Before helping found netsapiens in 2002 he was at Nuera, which was later acquired by AudioCodes. [Read more →]

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

Hong Kong based PCCW Global has announced the Hong Kong landing of the new 25,000km Asia-Africa-Europe 1 (AAE-1) subsea cable. [Read more →]

One of this summer's bigger infrastructure rumors is getting closer to reality. A Reuters report on Friday says that Crown Castle has indeed made a bid for Lightower Fiber Networks. The bid is said to exceed $7B including net debt, and is now being considered by Lightower and its private equity owners at Berkshire Partners. [Read more →]

Here are a few more news items worth a quick look from this week: [Read more →]

Here's a quick rundown on two expansions, one acquisition, and a customer win. [Read more →]

This article was authored by Lachlan Colquhoun, and was originally posted on telecomasia.net.

Some disruptors create the markets of the future because they bring new business models which revolutionize markets and harness new technology. [Read more →]

Consolidation among fiber infrastructure providers just keeps on chugging along.  This mornings deal comes from a familiar source, FirstLight Fiber.  FirstLight has been rolling up fiber assets across northern New England and upstate New York for many years now, and today they announced a definitive agreement to acquire 186 Communications. [Read more →]

The European data center provider Interxion has had a busy week on multiple fronts. [Read more →]

It's time to catch up on some other announcements from the week so far, so here are items from two large data center REITs, two vendors, and one wireless network: [Read more →]

EdgeConneX and Telia Carrier are expanding their relationship in a big way this summer.  Telia is expanding its Tier 1 IP backbone to EdgeConneX's entire edge data center footprint. [Read more →]

The Caribbean may soon have another submarine cable player shaking things up.  Deep Blue Cable has contracted with TE SubCom to deploy the new system they have planned. [Read more →]

Nokia has sold some gear at the top of the world.  Nepal's WorldLink is rolling out Nepal's first 100G backbone, leveraging Nokia's 1830 PSS DWDM technology to make it happen. [Read more →]

Cincinnati Bell made two inorganic moves this morning, surging onto the consolidation stage in a rather unexpected way.  will be paying The Midwestern service provider has signed a definitive agreements to combine with Hawaiian Telecom and to acquire OnX Enterprise Solutions. [Read more →]

India may see a mega merger this year, if reports out of the region are correct.  Tata Group has long been seeking a way to reconfigure its capital structure and relieve the pressure of its debt, and they may have found a way to do it with the help of the rival Bharti Enterprises group. [Read more →]

CityFibre is making a move over in Europe this week.  The UK wholesale metro fiber operator is raising up to £200M as part of an expansion of its buildout across the country.  Simultaneously, they have announced an acquisition as well. [Read more →]

That's the rumor of the week it seems, at least via the New York Post.  Is Verizon about to take a swing at owning even more content?  Analysts appear to be rather tickled by the idea, but otherwise not particularly impressed. [Read more →]

Here's a quick look at some news from around the world this week: [Read more →]

Zayo has done a deal for renewable energy for its colocation division.  The Boulder-based infrastructure provider has purchased 86 million kilowatt hours of energy certificates. [Read more →]

Equinix's presence in the Netherlands is that much bigger this morning.  The global data center operator has launched its latest facility in the Dutch capital of Amsterdam. [Read more →]

Reports over the holiday that derive from Guggenheim Equity Research suggest that Crown Castle has some major plans for small cells.  Specifically, the tower and fiber operator will be adding more than 25,000 small cell sites to its portfolio, more than doubling the 20K the company has in place today. [Read more →]

There was some merger news from the vendor space over the weekend.  ADVA Optical Networking has entered into a definitive agreement to buy MRV Communications. [Read more →]

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

China Telecom has entered three new partnership agreements aimed at accelerating the development of services based on an IoT open platform. [Read more →]