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Verizon Secures Approval for $20bn Frontier Acquisition

Verizon has secured all regulatory approvals to close its acquisition of Frontier Communications. It comes as the carrier this week received approval from the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to push ahead with the deal.“California isn’t just approving a merger, we’re securing rea...

January 16, 2026

Verizon Enterprise

Lumen Appoints Jim Fowler as CTO

Lumen Technologies has appointed Jim Fowler as its executive vice president and chief technology and product officer. The new CTO is to succeed Dave Ward, who is leaving Lumen to become president and chief architect at Salesforce.Starting from January 6, Fowler will manage global technology an...

December 11, 2025

Lumen Technologies

CoreSite Tops Out Denver data center

US data center firm CoreSite has topped out its latest facility in Denver, Colorado. Ground was broken on the 180,000 sq ft (16,720 sqm) building earlier this year and it set to launch next year. The company said it was the first purpose-built data center in Denver in more than 20 years.“At Co...

October 09, 2025

CoreSite

Verizon Names Dan Schulman as CEO

Verizon has announced former PayPal CEO Dan Schulman as the carrier's next CEO. The CEO transition at the company means that current chief Hans Vestberg steps down from the role, which he has held since 2018.“I believe in Verizon and its future, and I am honored to be chosen to serve as CEO,” ...

October 06, 2025

Verizon Enterprise

CoreSite Launches Third New York Data Center

US data center firm CoreSite this week announced the completion of its newest facility, NY3 in Secaucus, New Jersey. The purpose-built data center, located adjacent to CoreSite’s existing NY2 facility at 2 Emerson Lane, adds more than 138,000 sq ft (12,820 sqm) to CoreSite’s greater New York f...

September 27, 2025

CoreSite

Verizon Launches AI-centric Network ffering

Verizon has launched a new AI-centric network offering called Verizon AI Connect, an integrated suite of solutions and products designed to “enable businesses to deploy artificial intelligence (AI) workloads at scale.” The telco s looking to make its underutilized data center assets available ...

January 27, 2025

Verizon Enterprise

Lumen secures new contract from GAO

Lumen Technologies has secured a contract worth about $73.6 million from the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) under the General Services Administration's Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) program. This multi-million dollar contract will see Lumen modernize network, data, voice...

April 15, 2024

Lumen Technologies

Verizon kickstarts construction of new cell tower in Texas

Verizon has started construction of a new cell tower at Fort Bliss Army Post in El Paso, Texas. This tower will be constructed by Boldyn Networks and will provide connectivity to service military personnel in Texas and New Mexico. “Verizon supports our military partners through a number of in...

February 21, 2024

Verizon Enterprise

CoreSite plans new facilities in Secaucus and Denver

American Tower subsidiary CoreSite revealed its plans to expand its data center footprints in New Jersey and Colorado. The company revealed that it is already making plans for a data center in New Jersey which will be located adjacent to its NY2 facility at 2 Emerson Lane in Secaucus. It has a...

December 15, 2023

CoreSite

US Defense Information Systems Agency awards $110 million contract to Lumen

The US Defense Information Systems Agency has awarded Lumen Technologies a $110 million contract to provide mission-critical network services to the US Department of Defense (DoD). This contract has a timeline of five years, from November 30, 2023, through September 30, 2028. This contract is...

November 10, 2023

Lumen Technologies

Lumen sells CND customers to Akamai as it shuts down the business

Lumen announced that it’s Content Delivery Network (CDN) business will be shut down and it has sold its customer contracts to Akamai. Both companies will undergo a transition services agreement for 90 days before Lumen completes its shut down. "We are deep into our transformation of Lumen and ...

October 16, 2023

Lumen Technologies

Old Verizon office and data center in Pittsburgh for sale/lease

Verizon's former Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania office and data center is available for purchase or lease. It has been put up for sale or lease by Colliers and Sampson Morris Group at 5400 Campbells Run Road. The 10-acre, 1959-built office and data facility features 130,000 rentable square feet and ...

August 29, 2023

Verizon Enterprise

45 Sprint switch facilities to be converted into colo data centers by Cogent

Cogent Communications intends to transform the former Sprint switching plant real estate footprint acquired from T-Mobile into a substantial colocation data center portfolio. T-Mobile announced in September 2022 that it had agreed to sell its Wireline business to Cogent for a symbolic $1, with...

August 22, 2023

Cogent Communications

Lumen, a US telco, loses $8.74bn due to non-cash impairment

In the second quarter, Lumen Technologies reported a loss of $8.74 billion, a significant decrease from the $344 million profit in the same quarter last year. The company, formerly CenturyLink Enterprise, has lost more than 66 percent of its value this year, reducing its market capitalization ...

August 03, 2023

Lumen Technologies

Verizon signs four new PPAs

Verizon has announced that it has signed four new power purchase agreements (PPAs) for renewable energy, an aggregate of up to 410 MW of renewable energy capacity. According to the company, these new deals align with its broader goal to source or generate renewable energy equivalent to 50 per...

January 17, 2023

Verizon Enterprise

Lumen To Sell its EMEA Operation to Colt For $1.8 Billion

Lumen has announced that it will sell its Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) operations to Colt in a $1.8 billion deal. The deal will see Lumen divest its EMEA business, including its data centers, terrestrial and subsea networks, and network equipment in the EMEA region, to Colt. The deal...

November 07, 2022

Lumen Technologies

Stonepeak Announces $570m Investment in CoreSite

Investment company Stonepeak has increased its investment in CoreSite by $570m. The data center company was acquired in 2021 by American Tower Corporation for $10 billion. After the acquisition, Stonepeak invested $2.5 billion in the data center company in the summer. Stonepeak’s new investmen...

October 31, 2022

CoreSite

CoreSite Acquires Hurricane Resistant Data Center in Miami, Florida

CoreSite has announced the acquisition of a data center in Miami, Florida. The data center acquired is a purpose-built 9,550 square meter (103,000 square feet) facility located at 2100 NW 84th Avenue. The company didn’t reveal the terms of the transaction. CoreSite is naming the new data ce...

October 05, 2022

CoreSite

T-Mobile Sells Data Center and Wireline Business to Cogent for $1

Cogent Communications Holdings has acquired T-Mobile’s wireline business for $1 billion. In addition, T-Mobile expects to have a pre-tax charge of $1 billion from selling the unit to Cogent. T-Mobile will also pay Cogent $350m in the first 1 year of closing the deal and another $350m over the ...

September 26, 2022

Cogent Communications

Stonepeak Acquiring Stake in American Tower's CoreSite For $2.5bn

Stonepeak has revealed that it is acquiring a 29 percent stake in American Tower’s Coresite data center business. The investment firm will pay $2.5 billion for the stake in the business. The deal is expected to close in Q3 2022, subject to customary closing conditions. According to an annou...

July 15, 2022

CoreSite

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