It wouldn't affect operations. They transferred their infrastructure into a new company with a long term lease of that infrastructure. Both companies are free to do business with other companies, so their infrastructure arm has bought PEG Bandwidth and TowerCloud. Now Windstream (with minimal actual fiber of its own) buys a fiber provider.
http://www.telecomramblings.com/2015/03/windstreams-reit-prepares-to-launch/ http://www.telecomramblings.com/2015/04/here-comes-csl-the-fiber-reit-is-born/ http://www.telecomramblings.com/2016/03/csl-does-another-windstream-deal/ http://www.telecomramblings.com/2016/09/csl-completes-tower-cloud-buy-launches-uniti/ ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Fabien" <ch...@lakenetmi.com> To: af@afmug.com Sent: Monday, November 7, 2016 7:29:10 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Windstream / Earthlink Merging Mike can you expand on windstream getting rid of their fiber? Im asking because we are considering renewing a circuit with them. On Nov 7, 2016 4:49 PM, "Mike Hammett" < af...@ics-il.net > wrote: http://www.telecomramblings.com/2016/11/windstream-earthlink-combine/ Earthlink owns a bunch of glass in the ground (well, and some IRUs), but Windstream just got rid of all of theirs. Hrm. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP From: "Keefe John" < keefe...@ethoplex.com > To: af@afmug.com Sent: Monday, November 7, 2016 12:54:30 PM Subject: [AFMUG] Windstream / Earthlink Merging Another big merger... http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSASC09GKI
