Whose buying whom?
Bell Canada is buying Ziply Fiber, which only formed a few years ago and bought former GTE/Verizon/Frontier territory in Washington state, Idaho, Oregon, and Montana. Looks like it will take several years to complete and will cost around C$5 Billion.
Now of course I’m curious as to why they think they’ll succeed here in the US. I think Ziply was barely keeping afloat with all the debt that they have. Investing so much in new infrastructure is expensive. Retiring those old TDM switches for softswitches, and of course all that new fiber (or is that now fibre?) that they’ve been putting in to upgrade folks to some really fast high speed Internet. Google found out that it’s really expensive to put that in, and I think Ziply was in over their head. Hope that Bell Canada can succeed and make a profit.