Telecom Ramblings

The prospect of a subsea cable through the Russian Arctic got a significant boost yesterday. The Finnish provider Cinia and the Russian provider MegaFon have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to form a joint venture aimed at finally making what was once a crazy idea reality. [Read more →]

A few more items worth keeping an eye on: [Read more →]

The infrastructure component vendor space saw some inorganic activity this morning. Infinite Electronics, Inc. has announced the acquisition of Integra Optics. [Read more →]

Europe has a new digital route to the Balkans at its disposal. Sparkle and Telekom Slovenije have launched a new cross-border link hooking up the northern Italian hub of Milan and the Slovenian capital Ljubljana. [Read more →]

A few more interesting items from recent news that are worth noting: [Read more →]

The arrival of the summer season in the UK has brought more than a Presidential visit, it’s brought a bidding war for KCom. The Australian infrastructure fund Macquarie has waded in with a bid of £563m, to which KCom’s board has now agreed. [Read more →]

As the Sprint/T-Mobile deal continues to fight for regulatory approval, perhaps the most interesting story to emerge is the prospect of Amazon becoming a wireless player on its own. The idea seems to be for Amazon to buy Boost from Sprint as well as a pile of spectrum, bootstrapping its way into direct competition with the big 3. [Read more →]

Soon Huawei will be out of the undersea cable business. In a filing to the Shanghai Stock Exchange on Friday, an agreement was revealed that will see the Chinese vendor sell its stake in Huawei Marine to Hengtong Optic-Electric Co.  [Read more →]

A few infrastructure news bytes worth checking on before the weekend: [Read more →]

A few items to catch up on from mid-week: [Read more →]

The data center marketplace is a very dynamic one in which the business model works well at both large and small scale. This means there are many regional players. One such regional data center owner and operator is DC BLOX, which is opening a new Birmingham data center facility this month. With us today to talk about DC BLOX and its plans for the data center markets of the Southeastern United States is CEO Jeff Uphues. [Read more →]

Welcome back from the long weekend!  Here are a few news bytes that crossed the wires while everyone in the US was out: [Read more →]

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

The first crop of Asian operators have responded to the US trade ban on Huawei and its implication for Huawei’s access to the Android OS by [Read more →]

Memorial Day weekend has almost arrived, so maybe summer has also after a bit of a rocky spring.  Here are a few last tidbits of news first though: [Read more →]

This article was contributed by Lior Mishan of Ethernity Networks

Service providers have been under increasing pressure for several years to meet the growing expectations and demands of users. Now the advent of 5G networking is only adding to those expectations. [Read more →]

As everyone watches the Huawei soap opera roll on, here’s some other news to keep up with: [Read more →]

Three bits of data center and interconnection news, two from the US and one from south Asia: [Read more →]

A few items worth noting from around the world from the start of this week: [Read more →]

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

Huawei’s consumer business been dealt a potentially devastating blow to its future prospects after US president Donald Trump formally added the vendor to a list of companies that American companies cannot trade with if they don’t obtain a license. [Read more →]

In a move that was looking increasingly unlikely over the past few months, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has signaled that he will recommend that Sprint/T-Mobile merger be approved. The $26.5B merger isn’t necessarily out of the woods yet as no vote has been taken and the other four commissioners have not been heard from yet and there is still the DOJ to persuade.  But nevertheless, the deal has crossed a threshold and may now be back on track to close in the coming months. [Read more →]

Six years ago, a new player in the industry announced plans to build a brand new longhaul route between New York City and Ashburn. United Fiber & Data’s plans seemed a bit unlikely at the time, and they certainly had some hurdles to jump along the way.  But the company’s low profile belied the progress they were making, and on Friday the buildout was completed in full. [Read more →]

Four expansions with the help of partners to catch up on: [Read more →]

Great Plains Communications is making a move to the east via inorganic means. Yesterday they announced a deal to aquire InterCarrier Networks. [Read more →]