Zayo said today that it plans to purchase Intelligent Fiber Network (IFN), a fiber network operator primarily serving Indiana that is owned by a group of independent telcos and a rural electric company. The deal is expected to close in…
Regional Fiber Network
Everstream Continues Midwest Expansion
Regional fiber network operator Everstream is building out fiber in seven Midwest markets that will help to connect more than 2,000 macro cell towers. The fiber provider has been quite aggressive in its expansion efforts. The buildout helps fuels Everstream’s…
Dish Picks Four Carriers for Massive Fiber Access Deal to Power 5G
Dish said today that it will use fiber access connectivity from Everstream, Segra, Uniti and Zayo to provide backhaul and fronthaul capability for the Dish 5G network. It is the latest of numerous Dish 5G vendor announcements, which the company…
C Spire Expands MissiON Research and Education Network
C Spire is adding 15 community colleges to the Mississippi Optical Network (MissiON). The MissiON network is the research and education network supporting universities in the state. The 15 community colleges – which are not identified in the press release…
Everstream Expands Again with Fiber Asset Purchase from Uniti
Everstream will expand its fiber network into Pennsylvania and will acquire existing Uniti customers in an agreement the two companies announced today. The Everstream Uniti deal calls for Everstream to add more than 5,600 route miles to its network. The…
Broadband Provider Profile: Horizon Ohio Metro Strategy Driven by Rural Fiber Needs
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…
KINBER Deal Will Continue FirstLight Acquisition Strategy
FirstLight said that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire “substantially all of the assets” of the Keystone Initiative for Network Based Education and Research (KINBER) in Pennsylvania. The KINBER deal is the latest example of what has…
Minnesota Fiber M&A Deal Expands Statewide Fiber Network
In the latest fiber M&A deal news, Cooperative Network Services (CNS), operator of a Minnesota fiber transport network, said last week that it has acquired the assets of West Central Transport Group (WCTG), another fiber network that operates in the…
Latest Fiber Network Deal: Fiera, APG Fully Acquire Conterra Networks
Conterra Networks, one of the largest independent fiber infrastructure services providers in the United States yesterday agreed to a transaction by which affiliates of APG Group and affiliates of Fiera Infrastructure Inc. and the company’s senior management team, would acquire…
FirstLight Announces Expansion of Fiber Network in Pennsylvania
ALBANY, N.Y., June 24, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — FirstLight, a leading provider of fiber-optic data, Internet, data center, cloud and voice services to enterprise and carrier customers throughout the Northeast, announced today that it is expanding its fiber optic network further into the State of…
FirstLight Adds to its Growing List of Deals With Announcement of BestWeb Acquisition
In what’s becoming a common type of transaction for FirstLight, the regional fiber network has signed a definitive agreement to acquire smaller fiber network provider BestWeb. FirstLight provides fiber-optic data, Internet, data center, cloud and voice services to enterprise and…
AlCan ONE Completed, Linking Alaska to Canada and U.S. Hubs via First Terrestrial Fiber Network
MTA Fiber Holdings has finished and fired up the Alaska Canada Overland Network (AlCan ONE), which the company says is the only all-terrestrial fiber network connecting Alaska and the United States. The project, which began in 2019, can support speeds…
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