Little Rock, Arkansas – January 26, 2023 – (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) – Uniti Group Inc. (“Uniti”) (Nasdaq: UNIT) announced today that it has signed a long-term contract with a large global internet provider, offering long-haul dark fiber connectivity to premier data centers located in 12…
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Oct. 25, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Uniti Group Inc. (“Uniti”) (Nasdaq: UNIT) announced today that it has executed a twenty-year contract with a large, international hyperscale customer to provide high-strand count fiber infrastructure along a route to…
According to a Wall Street Journal report, fiber network operator Zayo is in talks to acquire both Windstream and Uniti. No deal is imminent, and according to the report, negotiations have stalled over the price for Uniti. Uniti is a…
Uniti Group is expecting strong growth from a new offering launched yesterday called Wave Lease. Customers using the service can purchase their own transponders which, according to Uniti, provides a more cost-effective cost structure than traditional wavelength services and less…
Everstream has completed its previously announced purchase of fiber network assets from Uniti. In addition to adding Uniti’s customers, the acquisition extends Everstream’s fiber network into Pennsylvania – including the major markets of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, Southern New Jersey and…
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…
Uniti said yesterday that it will begin offering nationwide dark fiber services on 2.2 million fiber strand miles miles spanning 35 states in Tier I, II and III markets. The company said it has “full ownership and use of this…
The U.S Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York today approved a Windstream bankruptcy exit reorganization plan. With the restructuring plan approved, the company expects to complete its financial restructuring process and emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection…
Uniti and Windstream have reached an agreement in principle that would settle litigation between the two companies related to Windstream’s spinoff of certain network assets to Uniti and Windstream’s bankruptcy filing. The settlement is subject to negotiation and certain regulatory…
Several years ago, Windstream and Uniti embarked on a bold new approach for broadband networks that transferred certain Windstream network assets to a REIT. That plan is now in total disarray, having been a key factor in Windstream’s bankruptcy. Now,…
The Bluebird Network says that its acquisition by Macquarie Infrastructure Partners, a large infrastructure fund, has closed. Bluebird will gain a 2,500 fiber route mile extension to its networks in Illinois. The expansion includes Rockford, Peoria, Bloomington, Normal and the…
The CEOs of both Windstream and Uniti Group said yesterday that they hope a suit that Windstream brought against Uniti will be resolved through mediation before it goes to trial. The suit focuses on the $650 million yearly payments that…
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