by admin | Dec 10, 2014 | 2014 Analyses, Aaron Blazar, All, Analyses
As featured in RCRWireless This week marks the continuation of the advanced wireless services 3 spectrum auction, also known as Auction 97. With bids passing $41 billion, the auction is re-emphasizing just how much value mobile service providers place on spectrum. Not...
by admin | Nov 5, 2014 | 2014 Analyses, Aaron Blazar, All, Analyses
As featured in RCRWireless On Oct. 17, Zayo began trading on the New York Stock Exchange, marking the return of a pure fiber infrastructure provider to the public markets. Zayo has built a fiber infrastructure business with a deep metro fiber footprint via 30-plus...
by admin | Sep 23, 2014 | 2014 Analyses, Aaron Blazar, All, Analyses
As featured in RCRWireless Discussion around the cellular backhaul market in the United States today places a heavy emphasis on fiber and putting more glass in the ground — and for good reason. Ultimately, Atlantic-ACM believes that in order to meet expected growth in...
by admin | Sep 3, 2014 | 2014 Analyses, Aaron Blazar, All, Analyses
As featured in RCRWireless Dark fiber — the dirty word of early-2000s telecom — is back en vogue in the wireless backhaul market. With the pending initial public offering of Zayo Group, it seems the time is ripe to discuss dark fiber’s role in the U.S. mobile backhaul...
by admin | Aug 15, 2014 | 2014 Analyses, All, Analyses
It’s been said that the eyes are the window to the soul. After conducting more than 25 interviews about Web portals with business customers of large telecom carriers, ATLANTIC-ACM found that end-users view customer-facing Web portals as windows into the...
by admin | Aug 8, 2014 | 2014 Analyses, All, Analyses, Judy Reed Smith
As I sat down to write this blog on Tuesday afternoon, July 29th, 2014, the US stock market was heading gently downward. However, the most important of industries had virtually all companies – from AT&T and Verizon down to the smallest telco service...