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...The acquisition of Zayo follows the $34bn combination of CenturyLink with Level 3, two other large internet infrastructure companies....
...bring broadband internet to rural areas....
...CenturyLink’s core business is supplying telephone and broadband to business customers — its two biggest competitors are Verizon and AT&T. Cable operators such as Comcast and Charter are also lurking....
...Mr Post said it could spin out its consumer broadband and telephony operations although it had no plan to do so yet....
...On the corporate front, it was another “merger Monday” as General Electric confirmed plans to combine its oil and gas business with Baker Hughes, and CenturyLink unveiled a deal to buy business broadband...
...Since Google Fiber launched, Comcast, AT&T and Centurylink have all begun to offer superfast broadband speeds in certain markets, including AT&T offering its U-Verse Gigapower service in Kansas City and...
...Comcast is the latest provider to offer superfast speeds, alongside AT&T and Centurylink — and their efforts can be seen as a victory for Google....
...All of the major ISPs except for Verizon DSL, CenturyLink, Frontier DSL and Windstream delivered at least 90 per cent of advertised performance on average during peak periods....
...Telecoms companies have been pushing into areas such as broadband and internet telephony to compensate for their ailing fixed-line businesses....
...With wireless and broadband being its only growth areas, it will merge a substantial part of its rural wireline customers with Frontier Communications in an $8.6bn all-stock transaction....
...The combined company will have 2.6m phone customers and 388,000 broadband Internet subscribers Under terms of the deal, shareholders of Dallas, Pennsylvania....
...Similarly, Verizon, the US's biggest telecoms group, has made it clear it intends to focus on its wireless and broadband businesses, and sell or spin off local access lines....
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