If Windstream and Uniti recombine, they would be an “insurgent fiber provider” with an industry-leading cost per passing, executives said.
Uniti sold its remaining share of Bluebird Network fiber assets back to Bluebird’s owner Macquarie, Bluebird’s CEO told us.
Combining Zayo, Windstream and Uniti would create a new fiber network powerhouse in North America, with assets in Europe as well.
The Uniti Wave Lease offering is more cost-effective than traditional wavelength services and less complex than dark fiber, a spokesperson
Everstream closed on its asset purchase from Uniti, giving the business-only fiber provider more routes and capacity throughout the northeast corridor
The Everstream Uniti deal adds 5,600 route miles to the Everstream network. The assets are in Pennsylvania and include dark fiber IRUs.
Uniti dark fiber offerings now include 3 million strand miles, including 2.2 million strand miles that came to Uniti through the Windstream settlement
With a Windstream bankruptcy exit plan approval today, the company’s restructuring plan will allow it to shed over $4 billion in debt and emerge as …
A proposed Uniti Windstream settlement places fiber network assets front and center. The proposed settlement has Uniti agreeing to invest in ILEC and CLEC
A Windstream Uniti trial will commence in March 2020. The companies were unable to renegotiate terms of the lease through which Windstream uses fiber and copper assets spun off to . . .
Bluebird Network was created through the 2011 merger of the Missouri Network Alliance, a statewide network owned by more than…
A Windstream lawsuit against Uniti argues that the payments Windstream makes to Uniti are a financing arrangement, not a true lease. Windstream spun off its copper and fiber to Uniti in 2015.
The Windstream network asset lease with Uniti could be in jeopardly now that Windstream has filed for bankruptcy. Windstream’s CEO said the lease payments are too high and the company would . . .
The Windstream bankruptcy filing was accompanied by the news that the company had received $1 billion in debtor-in-possession financing, which the carrier said would enable it to continue . . .
According to the Windstream Aurelius decision, the carrier owes the investor $310 million plus interest and potentially other bondholders…
The Uniti Macquarie deal involves the sale of Uniti’s Midwest business operations to Macquarie, which will also purchase Bluebird Network and will sell Bluebird’s fiber and copper infrastructure to Uniti and lease back those assets. For Uniti, the deal . . .
Zayo plans to split into two companies — EnterpriseCo and InfraCo. The latter could become the second telecom real estate investment trust after Windstream. A Zayo REIT would have certain tax advantages and would
The latest Uniti Group acquisitions are Information Transport Solutions (ITS) and JKM Consulting, dba M2 Connections. Both companies are based in the southeastern U.S.
The Uniti sale leaseback approach is alive and well, based on the news that the company bought fiber assets from TelePacific, which the telecom REIT will lease back to the competitive carrier. In addition, Uniti bought fiber from CableSouth, which . . .