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Regulators have signed off on the Megapath-Covad-Speakeasy merger, the companies announced yesterday. Aiming to be an end-to-end “next-generation Managed Services Local Exchange Carrier,” the merged entity, under the Megapath name, can boast of having more than ...

No deal is imminent, but the blogosphere is all abuzz this morning about the possibility that Cisco may try to buy Skype before Skype’s pending IPO. The rumored valuation is somewhere around $5 billion for the global IP ...

Shareholders of both companies have approved the acquisition of Qwest by CenturyLink. Shareholder meetings were held today in both Monroe, La (CenturyLink) and Denver, Co (Qwest). Interestingly enough, exactly 97% of the votes cast by both (but separate) shareholder groups approved the ...

AT&T purchased Centennial Wireless back in November 2009. As a part of the conditions to get that deal approved, AT&T agreed to divest of eight markets, most of which are in Louisiana. Today, the Centennial divestiture was completed. Verizon Wireless ...

DALLAS & SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fixed-wireless companies Airband Communications and Sparkplug Communications today announced they have merged, creating the largest fixed-wireless company for businesses in the U.S., providing a full suite of voice and data services in 17 markets. Airband and Sparkplug customers will continue to benefit from the flexible and highly scalable voice and data services delivered over the company’s wholly ...

Windstream is at it again, proving its acquisition spree is not over. The latest candidate – Q-Comm, an Overland Park, Kan based regional fiber transport company and CLEC, with operations in 22 states. The transaction is valued ...

West Point, Georgia-based triple play provider Knology announced today it will acquire Sunflower Broadband, which provides voice, video and data services to residential and business customers in Lawrence and Douglas County, Kansas, for $165 million in cash. Expected to close in 4Q ...

Alaska based Alaska Communications Systems (ACS) is looking to grow enterprise and IT revenues through a strategic acquisition of 49% of TekMate, an Anchorage based information technology company with 40 employees and $5.5 million in revenue. ACS offers wireline, broadband, and wireless service ...

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 ...

NTELOS, a Waynesboro, Va. based independent telco, is expanding their regional fiber network through the acquisition of FiberNet, a 3,500 route mile fiber network owned by One Communications. NTELOS is purchasing the fiber network for $170 million. The FiberNet network ...