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posted by martyb on Tuesday November 01 2016, @02:53PM   Printer-friendly
from the more-fiber-to-help-your-comms-stay-'regular' dept.

CenturyLink is buying Level 3 Communications:

CenturyLink Inc. agreed to buy Level 3 Communications Inc. for about $34 billion in cash and stock, creating a more formidable competitor to AT&T Inc. in the market to handle heavy internet traffic for businesses. [...] The equity value of the deal, excluding debt, is about $24 billion. Both companies have struggled against larger competitors -- AT&T Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. -- in the business services market. Investors sent CenturyLink shares down the most in 3 1/2 years on concern the company is overpaying and piling on debt to acquire a company whose sales growth has stagnated in a hotly competitive market.

The deal will give CenturyLink another 200,000 miles of fiber:

"This transaction increases CenturyLink's network by 200,000 route miles of fiber, which includes 64,000 route miles in 350 metropolitan areas and 33,000 subsea route miles connecting multiple continents," CenturyLink said. "Accounting for those served by both companies, CenturyLink's on-net buildings are expected to increase by nearly 75 percent to approximately 75,000, including 10,000 buildings in EMEA and Latin America." Currently, CenturyLink says it operates a "250,000-route-mile US fiber network and a 300,000-route-mile international transport network." Besides Internet access, CenturyLink offers cloud and managed hosting services for enterprises.

Also at The Wall Street Journal .


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  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday November 01 2016, @07:28PM

    by bob_super (1357) on Tuesday November 01 2016, @07:28PM (#421363)

    Well yes, it's not just cash. But how much does that value every single customer?
    You wouldn't get to that number by selling $30/mo internet or $20/mo 4G/20GB cell service as they do in Europe.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 02 2016, @04:29AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 02 2016, @04:29AM (#421498)

    I pay $15/mo for ATT broadband and it's not slow either...