Facebook said today that it will build a fiber network in Indiana to interconnect some of its data centers. The company also noted that it will make capacity on that network available to communications service providers. Where possible, Facebook purchases…
Windstream announced the addition of 60K wholesale fiber locations across its 18 state footprint. The additional wholesale access locations became available during the first quarter of 2021. These new Windstream wholesale fiber locations are available in exchanges where Windstream is…
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…
CenturyLink unveiled a new branding strategy today, effectively breaking itself into two brands. The company introduced Lumen Technologies, or just Lumen, as its new brand for its largest business segment, enterprise and wholesale. The CenturyLink brand will remain and will…
Windstream Wholesale today became the first national service provider built into Virginia Beach, Va., an international subsea cable landing station, and is taking orders out of the new Globalinx Data Center, the company announced. Telecompetitor earlier reported that the company…
Windstream Wholesale says that it has executed the largest agreement in its history for core transport. The client was termed “a major hyperscale” entity but was not identified in the press release. The capacity will enable the client to interconnect…
Bluebird Networks, operator of a fiber network spanning several Midwestern states, said it has signed an agreement to purchase Illinois Network Alliance, which operates a network in that state. INA is owned by several smaller Illinois telecom service providers. Bluebird…
FirstLight, a regional fiber network operator serving the northeastern U.S., has acquired ColoSpace, a provider of IT services, cloud services and disaster recovery in New England. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. ColoSpace is almost 20 years old, according…
CenturyLink said today that it has acquired Streamroot, a provider of peer-to-peer, also known as mesh, content delivery technology. The carrier, which already uses Streamroot technology, said the acquisition should help “improve video and static content delivery within bandwidth constrained…
Nex-Tech said this week that it has reached an agreement to acquire Cordell, a provider of equipment and software for network operations centers (NOCs) and the like. In an interview with Telecompetitor, Nex-Tech Chief Operating Officer Mike Pollock said the…
Great Plains Communications, the largest privately-owned telecommunications provider in Nebraska, has completed its acquisition of InterCarrier Networks (ICN), a high-capacity, fiber-optic network carrier with routes in Illinois, Indiana, the St. Louis metro area and Kentucky. In mid-May, Telecompetitor reported the…
Advanced Communications Technology (ACT) and Blackfoot Communications have entered into a strategic partnership to expand connectivity in their footprints, according to the companies. The combined Advanced Communications Technology, Blackfoot Communications footprint will include more than 30,000 locations across more than…
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