Consolidation
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Industry Consolidation Coming in Different Flavors
7/27/10 at 9:21 AM by Bernie Arnason
The consolidation trend continues in telecom, touching all corners of the business, including service providers, equipment vendors and consultants. Much of the consolidation attention focuses on service providers with Frontier’s recent acquisition of Verizon rural assets the latest closed deal. Service provider ...
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Consolidation Coming to Cable Industry?
8/28/09 at 3:13 PM by Bernie Arnason
Comcast got a big victory today with the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals tossing out the FCC’s cable ownership cap of 30%. The 30% cap barred cable companies from serving over 30% of multichannel video programming subscribers nationwide. Comcast is the only cable ...
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CenturyTel to Acquire Embarq
10/27/08 at 8:19 AM by Telecompetitor  Consolidation among telephone companies continues with the announcement by CenturyTel of their pending acquisition of Embarq. CenturyTel will buy Embarq in an all stock transaction valued at $11.6 billion, including the assumption of $5.8 billion of Embarq debt. Based on the closing stock price for CenturyTel on October 24, 2008, this consideration values Embarq shares at $40.42, a 36% premium over Embarq’s closing ...
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