mergers tag
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One Really Big VAR
Presidio Acquires BlueWater is the announcement."Presidio, Inc., a leading provider of professional and managed services for advanced IT solutions, announced today that it has acquired BlueWater Communications LLC, a provider of high-performance, holistic IT infrastructure solutions to growing companies. The...
T-Mobile's Next Move
T-Mobile to Pump $4 Billion Into Network, 4G LTE Buildout. This is T-Mobile's next move on the heels of getting fiber and billions in cash from AT&T after the merger was nixed by the government agencies. I have to laugh...
Why Did ShoreTel Buy M5?
Recently, M5 Communications was acquired for about $160 million by ShoreTel. The premise PBX vendor had a bad quarter and caved to the pressure of Hosted PBX. Avaya, Interactive Intelligence and MITEL have hosted offerings. At some point, ShoreTel had...
M5 Bought by Shoretel
So news at ITEXPO is that Shoretel bought M5 Networks last night for $145M, which 3x revenue. Hope shines anew in the Cloud Comm Alliance.UPDATE:According to the WSJ, the value of the deal is up to $162M, including $84M in...
AT&T Archive Video
From the AT&T archives: “A fascinating animated film explaining the perspective of the Bell System made during the legal challenges of the 1970s from both the government and other phone companies. “The MackNell Quandary from 1975 about the greatness of...
VoIP Branding at its Best
I was reading an article that began "specializing in telephone and network VoIP solutions for Fortune 1000 companies, government agencies, educational institutions and small and large businesses around the world." How exactly is that SPECIALIZING? That's Everyone.Just so you understand: Avaya...
Another Broadsoft Merger
In a surprise move (to me anyway), Megapath acquired IP5280 Communications, a Colorado ITSP. Both Megapath and IP5280 utilize Broadsoft, so that will make some of the transition easy. (And likely was a factor in the acquisition decision.) IP5280 had...
2 Data Center Deals and some links
Yesterday I mentioned that Gladstone is the new landlord for one of Expedient’s data centers. Today, zColo (of the Zayo Group) “acquired MarquisNet’s data-center business in Las Vegas, Nevada. The 28,000 square foot data center, located at 7185 Pollock Drive,...
And So The New Year Starts
NY’s Broadsoft based Hosted VoIP Provider, Stage 2 Networks, started the new year with the acquisition of the Hosted VoIP Division of Consolidated Technologies, Inc., a New York City area Avaya partner. Stage 2 needed the growth is my take...
Birch is Scooping up AstroTel
AstroTel, a Sarasota, FL based CLEC,sued Verizon for anti-trust in March this year (2011). Apparently, this case is going as well as its management predicted, because AstroTel just announced:“AstroTel has entered into a definitive agreement with Birch Communications, Inc for Birch...
What is Wrong with AT&T
In recent weeks, AT&T has been hit with a blizzard of bad news.It's 3Q2011 earnings were off estimates. It's merger with T-Mobile is looking less and less likely with the FCC report, its own smoking gun and the DOJ trial....
11 Top Stories in Telecom in 2011
Here’s my take on the Top 11 stories in telecom of 2011.1. Shane McNamara being named VP of the Indirect Channel at XO. It was a shock pick for many in the industry.2. TNCI Bankruptcy! I understand that the reseller...
LightSquare, GPS, ADTRAN and West
ADTRAN "announced today that it plans to acquire, through an asset sale and purchase agreement, the Nokia Siemens Networks fixed line Broadband Access business (BBA), and associated professional services and network management solutions. The planned acquisition would include the Broadband...
A Final Note on ATT-T-Mobile
Great quote from this Bloomberg article, "We don’t have any confidence that we are spending all this time and effort and the taxpayers’ money and that we’re not being spun," U.S. District Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle in Washington said. Every lawsuit,...
MicroCorp Acquires Another
Master Agent MicroCorp announced yesterday another acquisition (following the purchase of 5 Star Communications in June).Combined the Company will be the largest Telecom Agency on the East Coast.MicroCorp will also expand its portfolio by signing a strategic partnership agreement with...
Mergers Cost Jobs
In the wake of AT&T getting caught misleading the federal agencies about the benefits of its merger with T-Mobile (FCC report here), we see that the merger of PAETEC and Windstream has already resulted in job losses.Windstream cuts 58 jobs...
A Bad Day for AT&T
The FCC released its order today declaring that the AT&T-T-Mobile merger was not good for consumer, public good or competition. And AT&T was not pleased that the FCC released the Staff Analysis - all 157 pages of it.AT&T probably didn’t...
L3 Sells Coal Mine
Not many people knew that Level3 owned a coal mining operation. It was sold off last week. I do not know if L3 still owns the software integration business. (I can't find any indications in the earnings reports.)According to the...
AT&T Sneaks One In
AT&T sneaks in a note that says they set aside $4B for a break-up fee during the Thanksgiving break. AT&T withdrew its petition from the FCC as they wait to see what happens with the DOJ and the lawsuit. UPDATE:...
3 Things to Watch for in The Channel in 2012
2011 has yielded some surprising momentum for the Channel. With the cable industry, cloud providers and so many other companies making more commitments to the Channel. I think that there are 3 things we need to watch for in The...
Presidio, Best Buy Make Acquisitions
Big day at Best But as they buy out the stake in Carphone UK and pick up an MSP.< br/>Bloomberg reports, “Best Buy Co., the world’s largest consumer-electronics retailer, agreed to buy Carphone Warehouse Group Plc (CPW)’s stake in their...
So Who is Going to Buy XO?
I got asked this question again today: Who is going to buy XO? I think we can almost all agree that Carl Icahn would like to sell his company.XO had 2010 revenue of $1.5 billion, only $8 million more than...
E-Solutions for Sale?
Someone asked me this morning if I knew who bought E-Solutions in Tampa. Oops! I didn’t know they were for sale. E-Solutions operates Tier 3 data centers in the beer can building, better known as the location in The Punisher...
EarthLink Buys Some Synergy
EarthLink is buying two divisions from Synergy Global Solutions: its IT Solution Center, a 24-7 help desk and network operations center, and its cloud-hosted application business, according to Buffalo News.EarthLink gets relationships with about 120 VAR’s that laready sell the...
So PAETEC is in the WIND
A majority of PAETEC shareholders voted yes to Windstream’s offer. It looks like Level3 and EarthLink won’t be grabbing Paetec. There are other CLEC’s to grab, especially Icahn’s XO that just let 400 employees go.Meanwhile, Network Billing Systems (NBS), “a...
