Telecom News

RCN, Cross River Align For Expansion

Yesterday in the New York City metro area, two metro fiber operators teamed up to expand their reach. RCN Business and Cross River Fiber will be leveraging each other's assets to stretch across the Hudson River.

ScreenHunter_12 Dec. 23 07.30Cross River Fiber has spent the last several years building out brand new dark fiber routes in northeastern New Jersey (map left), hooking up the major data centers and financial nodes. Lately they have been expanding from wholesale into key enterprise verticals.

Atlanta Is Zayo’s Latest Backhaul Buildout Target

Zayo revealed its latest wireless backhaul buildout project yesterday. They'll be expanding their network in and around the southeastern metropolis of Atlanta after winning a 20 year contract from an unnamed major wireless operator.

First U.S. telecom company connects directly with Cuba

Just months after President Barack Obama announced a new opening to Cuba, deals are being made to allow easier communications with the island.

The first U.S. company to strike a long-distance deal with Cuba since the Obama administration announced a telecom opening toward the island is now handling direct calls to Cuba.

BroadSoft Acquires Its Way Into Japan’s UC Market

The VoIP world saw a bit of inorganic action this morning across the Pacific. BroadSoft is acquiring PBXL, a provider of cloud communications to the Japanese business market.

PBXL is a licensee of BroadSoft's platform since 2012, so we aren't talking about a difficult integration here. BroadSoft plans to use the acquisition to bring its BroadCloud hosted UC platform into Japan, where it feels that the SMB market is underserved by alternatives. They'll therefore be starting with local knowledge, infrastructure, and customer relationships.

Managing the Internet of Things – the Network Operator’s Challenge

The IoT is exploding –and its traffic is totally unlike anything that network operators have encountered. Here’s how savvy carriers can respond to this challenge – and use standards to turn the IoT from a management and security headache into a business opportunity to offer new agile services.

Network operators and service providers are gearing up for the Internet of Things (IoT) – and the IoT mixes revenue opportunities with technology challenges.

Windstream to Optimize Last Mile Network to Reduce Cost

Windstream Holdings Inc. WIN, a leading rural local exchange carrier in the U.S., is focusing to optimize its last mile network and in turn cut costs. Speaking at Goldman Sach's 24th Annual Communicopia conference, Tony Thomas, CEO of Windstream, said that the company is focusing to increase its on-net fiber buildings (buildings supported by the company’s own fiber-based network) footprint.

Vonage’s Business Ambitions Gain Ground

A variety of earnings reports are now in, but one that caught my attention this morning was that of Vonage. Vonage has been working hard to transition from its original consumer VoIP business into a business VoIP and UC provider. According to today's results, they seem to be gaining some real traction.

3 ways South Florida firms use Big Data

Here are some of the ways South Florida companies are using Big Data:

Windstream Taps Allied Fiber For Florida Expansion

As Allied Fiber prepares for the formal launch of its Atlanta-Miami route later this month, they have picked up a high profile customer on the southern half of it. Windstream has signed on for a fiber IRU on 360 route miles between Miami and Jacksonville.

Windstream Taps Allied Fiber For Florida Expansion

As Allied Fiber prepares for the formal launch of its Atlanta-Miami route later this month, they have picked up a high profile customer on the southern half of it. Windstream has signed on for a fiber IRU on 360 route miles between Miami and Jacksonville.

3 Keys To Success In A Managed IT Model

1. Ensure an operationally sound business. After a few measurable quarters, evaluate how your company is running with your new business model. Be sure to keep in close touch with clients, and remember to frequently check in with employees. Ask how they’re doing and if they have run into any hurdles. Ensure that both employees and customers understand why you are making business changes. Ask for their trust and buy-in.

The logic of telco M&As

Hutchison acquired O2. BT acquired EE. Years ago Hutchison sold Orange that is a part of EE, and BT divested O2. Nokia acquires Alcatel-Lucent and becomes the second largest network vendor, i.e. a business it planned to divest for some years. These are just some examples, but what does it tell about telco business and its long term planning?

Equinix Expands in Toronto, London

To the north, they launched their state-of-the-art TR2 data center in Toronto, Ontario. This phase has some 34,000 square feet and 675 cabinets, and will eventually have 106,000 square feet and 2,500 cabinets. Early tenants include the financial services firm Oanda as well as the network operators Rogers, Telus, Cogeco, Allstream, Cogent, Beanfield, and CFN Networks. The facility also has a direct link over to the TorIX of course.

Battle looms over the future of telecommunications

Consumers won the war for a better deal from telecommunications providers but a fresh battle is looming.

The industry's once massive profits have been pummelled to a smouldering rubble.

Vodafone reported a $28 million loss in September, its first for 14 years.

Spark boss Simon Moutter complained before Christmas that the combined annual profit of the country's five biggest phone companies, Spark, Vodafone, Chorus, 2degrees and CallPlus, had fallen to half that of New Zealand's smallest major bank, ASB Bank.

Charter to buy Bright House Networks for USD 10.4 billion

Charter Communications announced an agreement to acquire Bright House Networks from media group Advance/Newhouse for USD 10.4 billion. Bright House is the sixth-largest cable operator in the US and will give Charter another 2 million customers in central Florida, Alabama, Indiana, Michigan and California.

In Net Neutrality Order, The FCC Sides With Big Content Over Little Consumers

Who will pay for the communications infrastructure of the 21st century? Will it be broadband consumers, big content providers, or some combination of the two? In its Open Internet Order released last week, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC ) sided with Big Content and stuck broadband consumers with the full tab.

White House Continues Quest for Better Broadband Mousetrap

Today, the White House, NTIA and USDA all put out announcements on the newly signed Presidential Memorandum on the Broadband Opportunity Council, apparently a follow up to the President’s “adventure” in Cedar Falls, Iowa, earlier this year where he used the platform at a municipal entity to tout public-private partnerships in the broadband space. The initiative, this new Council, is designed to singularly focus on increasing broadband investment and adoption.

Broadview’s MyOfficeSuite Portal Wins 2015 Product of the Year Award

RYE BROOK, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Broadview Networks®, a leading cloud-based provider of communications and information technology services, announced today that it has won a 2015 Unified Communications Product of the Year Award for its MyOfficeSuite™ solution, a revolutionary online portal that centralizes all communications and hosted services into a single user-friendly website that can be accessed from anywhere.

Mitel Makes Mobile Move, to Acquire Mavenir

After ShoreTel turned up its nose at that unsolicited offer last autumn, Mitel was still hungry for some inorganic growth. Today they struck again with the announcement of an agreement to acquire Mavenir.

Mavenir specializes in software aimed at taking better advantage of LTE and WiFi for voice connections. VoLTE has been a long time in coming, but seems to be just about ready to come into its own. Mitel will be integrating Mavenir's technology and capabilities into their own UC portfolio.

South of the Border, AT&T Strikes Again

Showing just how intent they are on their Mexican invasion, AT&T has made another acquisition just nine days after closing its purchase of Iusacell. This morning they announced a deal to purchase Nextel Mexico from NII Holdings, following through on rumors of their interest since fall.

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