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The Wall Street Journal reported that CenturyLink and Level 3 Communications are in advanced talks to merge. Neither company confirmed the report.
Both companies operate very significant fiber backbone networks.
Over the past few years, CenturyLink has acquired Qwest Communications, Savvis and Embarq (formerly Sprint’s Local Telecommunications Division).
In 2014, Level 3 acquired TW Telecom. In 2011, it acquired Global Crossing.
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From the Graveyard
You just read about CenturyLink. One of the companies whose work it now carries:
Qwest Communications built Fiber backbone, enterprise and regional local-exchange carrier. What became of it?
Qwest Communications brought Fiber backbone, enterprise and regional local-exchange carrier to Telecom. That work was distinctive enough to lead to its acquisition by CenturyLink for US$22.4B. The standalone name now passes into the archive — but the team and technology continue inside CenturyLink today. One of 430 names here whose work outlived the company.
From the Technology Graveyard
You just read about All. A technology from the archive that helped get us here:
Google/Alphabet Project Loon served 2011–2021. What ultimately replaced it?
Google/Alphabet Project Loon solar-powered balloons drifting in the stratosphere (~20 km), steering by rising and falling into different wind layers, relaying LTE from ground stations to phones far below. Its job passed to Unit economics — but the problem it solved, and the ideas it proved, live on in what replaced it. The standard rests here in the archive. One of 198 technologies here that opened a door and then held it for the next.
From 25 years of the Converge Digest archive.
