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Who Should Be Most Worried About Google?

Google’s rumored move into the wireless space as an MVNO could give them the last piece of the puzzle. From the device in your hand, the operating system it runs, the email/office/video/social apps you use, the wireless or fiber access network it connects with, the IP backbone and CDN that serves the data, the undersea cables and terrestrial dark fiber it traverses, the cloud on the other end, and the data centers that the servers sit in, Google will have its thumb if not its whole forearm in every single pie. Should we be more worried than we are?

ShoreTel Spurns Mitel’s Bid, Again

Last week, the Canadian service provider Mitel made another move for yet more business VoIP scale and took its bid for rival ShoreTel public. Today, ShoreTel’s board followed up its initial private rejection with a more public one.

Zayo Moves Into Two Data Centers

Two data center facilities are getting some new connectivity from Zayo: a recently reborn one in New York City, and one that hasn’t even opened yet down in Houston.

T-Mobile Gets a Bid, But Not From Japan

Yes, a bid landed on the table for T-Mobile today from a foreign wireless carrier backed by a billionaire with a talent for disruption. But it wasn’t from Softbank and Masayoshi Son was not involved. The French carrier Iliad, which is backed by Xavier Niel, has come out of nowhere to offer $15B in cash for a 56.6% stake in T-Mobile US.

Back to the Future with Push-to-Talk

Before the era when cell phones became permanently glued to our hands and our ears, walkie talkies were the fastest and most efficient way of communicating over a short distance. As mobile technology advanced both the devices and the service, field workers such as construction companies and police departments became synonymous with the chunky phones and scenarios depicted in the Nextel advertisements of the late 1990’s.

TW Telecom Expands in KC, Atlanta

Now that all the immediate aftermath of the Level 3 merger announcement has subsided and we wait a quarter for the deal to close, tw telecom is pulling everyone’s focus back down to the company’s main operational task for 2014. That would be the expansion of its metro fiber footprint in markets across the country, a few the details of two of those markets being announced today.

Level 3 Calls Out Verizon Directly on Peering Upgrades

At least one piece of the simmering interconnection dispute over Netflix data bottlenecks has been getting clearer lately. Following Netflix’s ‘crowded network’ warning message to subscribers in June, last week Verizon put out a piece demonstrating that its last mile wasn’t congested at all. And yesterday, Level 3 turned that around in a blog post, saying that Verizon’s explanation is more of an admission. Level 3′s prior comments have been more general, not naming Verizon quite so explicitly as doing this — not that it was much of a secret.

Verizon reveals 150K government information requests in first half of 2014

The U.S. government made close to 150,000 requests for customer information in the first half of 2014, including 72,500 subpoenas, Verizon (NYSE: VZ) said as part of its second Transparency Report.

Randal Milch, Verizon's executive vice president-public policy and general counsel, said that the requests, while seemingly high in total, actually reflected a "very small" number of affected customers.

Alcatel-Lucent, 10 GB over Copper?

The zombie that is our aging copper network just got another jolt of magic to keep it animated. Setting a new record, the Franco-American vendor has put 10Gbps over copper wires with a new prototype technology, giving hope of actual gigabit services to those who fiber won’t reach.

The new technology is called XG-FAST, and builds on the G.fast standard that itself is still being finalized. With up to a 500Mhz frequency range, testing yielded higher speeds but over shorter distances: 1Gbps symmetrical over 70m, and 10Gbps over just 30m with two pairs of lines.

Is Centurylink to right buyer for Rackspace?

The word seems to be out that Rackspace’s most likely suitor is none other than CenturyLink. Rackspace and its cloud/hosting business have been rather publicly on the table for the past month or two. Initial speculation seemed to focus on tech giants, yet I have always thought a telecommunications operator might make more sense. For what it’s worth, I think CenturyLink could do well out of the deal.

Zayo Upgrades in Europe

Two announcements hit the wires for Zayo yesterday. No, not another deal yet, though there’s always tomorrow. Zayo is working on a longhaul upgrade in Europe and picked up a key research & education contract back in the USA.

Cbeyond faces Allegations, after Birch Aquisition

Telecom service provider Birch Communications plans to acquire national managed services provider Cbeyond for $323 million, the two Atlanta-based companies said Monday.

After AT&T deal, Dish looks less appetizing

Dish Network Chairman Charlie Ergen is famous for outmaneuvering the media industry. But he may have just run out of good moves.
Over the weekend, AT&T agreed to purchase satellite-television operator DirecTV in a move that may create the country's second-largest pay-TV company by subscribers. While the deal had been mentioned weeks earlier in press reports, the formal announcement has almost certainly taken DirecTV rival Dish out of the major consolidation game.

Charter to Buy a Chunk of Comcast/TWC

In a heavily foreshadowed but rather complex cable M&A move, Charter is now buying a piece of Comcast. The deal is quite complicated, but following the completion of Comcast’s TW Cable purchase it will see Comcast divest about 3.9M subscribers and get back about $22B.

First, Comcast will be selling 1.4M subscribers directly to Charter. That sort of deal was the obvious move.

Zayo Lands in France, Buys Neo

It’s official, Zayo’s latest acquisition is across the Atlantic in France. This morning the Boulder-based network operator announced an agreement to purchase Neo Telecoms, an independent metro fiber and data center operator in France.neotelecomsmapSince its purchase of AboveNet, additional purchases by Zayo that would give it assets in continental Europe have seemed inevitable. AboveNet itself had expanded its intercity network across the English Channel with a loop hitting Amsterdam, Frankfurt, and Paris.

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