The Atlanta suburb of Peachtree Corners in the US, playing home to a live smart city testbed, is working with T-Mobile to launch a new fleet of 5G-powered autonomous shuttles for local residents. The service is being provided by mobility solutions provider Beep, with...
Anti-trust approval clears the way for the $34B deal to close
CenturyLink received anti-trust approval from the Federal Communications Commission on Monday for its $34 billion purchase of Level 3 Communications.
CenturyLink had been steadily winding its way through the necessary state-level approvals and received...
CenturyLink has gained formal approvals from Virginia and Minnesota for its $34 billion acquisition of fiber provider Level 3, with those states joining more than a dozen others that have cleared the way for the merger of the two companies to go through.
Whether the merger...
$25 billion merger of fiber providers geared toward delivering connectivity and digital services to enterprise customers
Confirming widespread speculation, CenturyLink today announced plans to acquire Level 3 in a cash and stock transaction worth $25 billion, according to the companies.
If approved, the combined operations will own...
Level 3 provides insight into the working relationship with partners on the deployment of SDN platforms in support of service agility
For most companies, the deployment of virtualized platforms using software-defined networking, network functions virtualization or cloud technologies requires working with other parties on the...
The telecom industry is awash in merger talk at the moment, continuing a wave of consolidation that is seeing service providers complement delivery networks with content holdings, and has trickled down to the entire vendor ecosystem as high-capital costs coupled with declining revenues set...
Level 3 looks to NFV and SDN in move to bolster websites, applications; other NFV and SDN news of the week
Recent events around the launch of ticket sales for an upcoming moving that crashed the websites and applications of movie ticker brokers highlight the...
Coriant discusses benefits of SDN implementation for mobile networks, and we look at news of the week
NFV and SDN continue to garner increased interest from telecom operators looking to gain greater efficiency and agility from their operations. But are those benefits enough to justify...
The latest in an increasingly worrisome string of vandalism affecting fiber lines in Northern California has prompted AT&T to offer up a $250,000 reward for information leading to an arrest of whomever is responsible.
Local media reports indicate the latest apparent acts of vandalism occurred...
Carriers need access to more fiber to comply with FCC’s net neutrality decision
Following in chief competitor Verizon Communications' footsteps, AT&T on May 10 announced an interconnection agreement that will join the mobile network operator’s IP network with Level 3 Communications’ extensive fiber network.
In a...
AT&T strikes out in Washington, signs interconnect agreement with Level 3
The Federal Communications Commission said it won't reconsider the part of its net neutrality policy that classifies the Internet as a public utility. AT&T Mobility and CTIA were the wireless industry's standard bearers in...
Level 3 has completed its $5.7 billion purchase of TW Telecom. The move combines TWÂ Telecom's metro-fiber assets with Level 3's international fiber connectivity that reaches 60 countries, while doubling Level 3's sales force in North America.
Both companies serve the mobile market for backhaul and...
