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Frontier Has Enough
Fiber, Says CEO
With its business-focused services
division up and rolling, combined with
the recent flurry of acquisitions of late,
many surmised that Frontier would be
enhancing its fiber network by acquir-
ing other assets. Frontier, however,
has the the necessary fiber assets in
place to serve enterprises, said CEO
Dan McCarthy, and does not need to
purchase additional fiber to reach its
business service revenue goals.
“We feel good about the fact
that we have 4.5 million households
that we can serve with fiber, and all
the fiber that is in the network that
enables a lot of the commercial op-
portunities that Ken Arndt’s team are
going after,” McCarthy told investors
during the telco’s second quarter
call. “We’re not really looking to do
anything at this point.”
The company plans to focus its
network capital spending on expand-
ing Ethernet and VoIP capacity to
support commercial and wholesale
carrier opportunities. It plans to lever-
age a mix of its direct and indirect
sales channels.
Frontier currently sits in the 11th
spot on Vertical Systems Group’s lat-
est on-net fiber Leaderboard and is
part of a group of retail and wholesale
fiber providers that have 10,000 or
more on-net fiber-lit commercial build-
ings in the U.S.
CCMI Acquires
FiberLocator
C
CMI, a business unit of Simplify Compliance,
has acquired NEF’s FiberLocator, an online fiber
mapping database.
This is the second acquisition by Sim-
plify Compliance since Leeds Equity
Partners, LLC invested to form the com-
pany in December 2016.
The FiberLocator telecommunica-
tions and colocation database houses
detailed maps and information on
hundreds of facilities-based carriers,
thousands of data centers and hun-
dreds of thousands of on-net build-
ings, said the company. CCMI says it
will be retaining the FiberLocator staff,
bringing their years of expertise to
the growing CCMI team.
FiberLocator will partner with NEF in
the future to provide optimal coverage
for customers.
“NEF and FiberLocator will con-
tinue to have a relationship follow-
ing the acquisition. We feel that the
new partnership will allow FiberLo-
cator to grow with additional data
and features,” said Mike Murphy,
NEF CEO.
Zettabytes
Required Fiber Infrastructure Investment
Source: Deloitte Consulting
Major Investment Needed in Deep
Fiber, Says Deloitte
In order to meet the coming needs of wireless densification, increased
broadband competition and expanded coverage in rural and underserved
areas, as much as $130 to $150 billion of fiber investment must be made
in the U.S. during the next five to seven years, according to analysts at
Deloitte Consulting LLP. The research firm expects the investment to derive
from a variety of sources including traditional communications service provid-
ers, financial investors and public-private partnerships.
Millions of people who have
gigabit broadband access
in the U.S., or 17% of the
population, according to
new counts by test and
measurement vendor Viavi.
That’s the highest number
of people in any country in
the world.
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