Canadian private equity firm Novacap TMT has agreed to acquire Ohio-based fiber network operator Horizon Telcom for an undisclosed price. Under terms of the agreement, Novacap will acquire the company from its current owners, who include over 280 shareholders. At the…
Fiber network operator Horizon can trace its roots back to more than 100 years ago when the company started out as Chillicothe Telephone, serving Ross county in rural southeast Ohio. But the company now has a broader focus, which Telecompetitor…
Horizon Network Partners has completed the first phase of its Columbus, OH, expansion project, according to the company. The expansion added more than 200 miles of fiber, which connects to the existing network of more than 4,700 route miles of…
Canadian private equity firm Novacap today completed its previously announced acquisition of Horizon Telecom for $220 million. The Novacap Horizon acquisition provides Novacap more than 4,300 fiber route miles and nearly 550,000 fiber strand miles with over 1,600 on-net locations…
The first challenge for most service providers is the fear of migration — that the services will not be the same, may upset customers, and not be able to recover revenue. For service providers struggling with how to get started,…
Many telecom networks have invested a majority of revenue in their switch, but they’re weighed down by outdated networks, complex infrastructures, and rising maintenance costs. So how do they go about legacy switch replacement? If you are planning to do…
Telecompetitor has been doing annual telecom/ broadband M&A roundups for several years. Unlike some other recent years, 2021 had no telecom megamergers such as the one between T-Mobile and Sprint or AT&T and Time Warner – at least, not in…
Rural broadband was a hot topic for the opening session at the Independent Show in Chicago yesterday. The show, put on by cable industry organizations ACA Connects and the National Cable Television Cooperative (NCTC), is aimed at smaller cable providers….
If you subscribe to the oft-quoted theory that the pickaxe providers were the big winners in the California and Alaska gold rushes, then Calix certainly is one of the major pickaxe providers of the broadband stimulus program. The company today…
PETALUMA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Calix, a leading provider in North America of broadband communications access systems and software for copper- and fiber-based network architectures that enable communications service providers (CSPs) to connect to their residential and business subscribers, today announced it has…
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