Point Broadband Fiber Holding, LLC, a provider to rural areas and small cities in nine states, said that it is getting a “significant growth investment from funds affiliated with Berkshire Partners.” The size of the investment and other details were…
Fiber broadband provider i3 Broadband has acquired Big River Broadband and its wholly owned subsidiary Circle Fiber, for an undisclosed sum. The deal is expected to close in the second quarter, with the full company taking on the i3 Broadband…
Mergers and acquisitions have been a big trend in the broadband industry for several years. But today saw a new twist, as one investment firm focused on broadband providers and on infrastructure such as data centers and cell towers announced…
In the latest example of consolidation in the rural broadband market, southeast regional service provider LiveOak Fiber says it intends to purchase telecom assets in the Glynn and Camden counties of Georgia from Alma Telephone Company Broadband (ATC Broadband). The…
Nextlink Internet, which was one of the top 10 winners in the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) rural broadband funding auction, has purchased most of the assets of Bluestem Network, a fiber broadband provider based in Lancaster and Seward Counties…
Minnesota broadband provider Arvig has completed an agreement to buy a fiber network from ALP Utilities. The network serves about 130 businesses in the city of Alexandria, MN. ALP Utilities is a community-owned municipal utility that provides residential and commercial…
New York, Paris, London – January 17, 2023 – Antin Infrastructure Partners (“Antin”, Ticker: ANTIN – ISIN: FR0014005AL0) announced today that it has completed the acquisitions of Empire Access and North Penn Telephone (together, “Empire”), leading fiber-to-the-premise (“FTTP”) broadband providers in…
Two Oregon telecommunications cooperatives – Canby Telephone Association and Scio Mutual Telephone Association (SMTA) – formed a partnership on December 30 of last year to buy a majority stake in the Cascade Divide Data Center in Bend, Oregon. The price…
The U.S. is a land of opportunity for broadband providers now that universal broadband has become a national priority and unprecedented funding has become available to cover some construction costs in unserved areas. Those opportunities also were a big factor…
Ozark Fiber has acquired the internet and voice business for residential and small-to-medium-sized businesses from Missouri Telecom in Monett, MO and surrounding areas for an undisclosed price. Ozark Fiber started building its high-speed fiber-optic network in Monett three months ago,…
Regional data center and network operator Bluebird Network intends to acquire the middle mile fiber network assets of Missouri Telecom Inc. (MTI). The two companies have signed an asset purchase agreement for the deal, which is expected to close by…
Regional Midwest fiber broadband provider Omni Fiber has acquired Ohio Telecom. Terms of the transaction, which closed today, were not disclosed. It’s the latest example of private equity getting aggressive in fiber broadband. Omni Fiber was created earlier this year…
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