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(Toronto, ON) November 20, 2019 – Today Allstream announced a new managed IT solution, IT CloudView, which delivers best-in-class management of enterprise-wide IT environments. The IT CloudView solution is designed to be a complete package with an easy-to-use, visual dashboard. From one single dashboard, IT teams can monitor and manage Wi-Fi access points, LAN switches, security appliances, SD-WAN, mobile corporate devices and video surveillance cameras. This means less time spent wrangling software, and more time making sure the business is running smoothly.

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LOS ALTOS, Calif. – October 22, 2019 – Cloud native communications software leader Metaswitch today announced that Allstream, a leader in business communications throughout North America, has selected its Perimeta SBC and Call Guardian Authentication Hub to enable the fastest and most cost effective path to deploy the STIR/SHAKEN compliant call authentication framework and analytics-based robocall prevention solution. Allstream will be one of the first cross-border providers to embrace and utilize the STIR/SHAKEN protocol and is encouraging the rest of the US and Canadian industry to accelerate the move from time division multiplexing (TDM), to Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)-based communications, with the goal of all carriers being able to interconnect and be STIR/SHAKEN compliant.

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STERLING, VA, – OCTOBER, 2019 – Neustar, a global information services company and leader in identity resolution, today announced Allstream, a subsidiary of Zayo and leader in telecommunications services, has selected Neustar’s inventory platform, NumeriTrack®, to manage its five million telephone numbers in the U.S. and Canada.

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(NASHVILLE, TN) June 19, 2019 – Equinox Information Systems, a leader in the telecom business assurance solutions market, announces today that Allstream has licensed the company’s Protector and TeleLink systems. Allstream selected Equinox earlier this year after evaluating vendors and solutions for these two separate initiatives. Equinox has been helping telecom companies stop fraud, mediate usage data, manage expense, and optimize revenue since 1986.

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Ottawa, ON – June 2019 – PureColo, a leading provider of carrier-neutral data centre services, announces a partnership agreement with Allstream, a national carrier of network and IP services, to resell colocation services in PureColo’s carrier-neutral facility in Ottawa.

The partnership with PureColo adds an important component to Allstream’s North American colocation services strategy. This non-exclusive relationship provides early access to colocation resources, including space, power, and cooling, to Allstream customers, at a time when demand for these resources is increasing in the market.

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May 8, 2019

Allstream is a leading North American business telecommunications provider and a wholly owned subsidiary of Zayo Group. Today, Zayo Group announced that the company has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by two private equity firms: Digital Colony and EQT Infrastructure. When it is closed, the transaction will result in Zayo transitioning from a public company to a private company.

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On November 20, 2018, Zayo Group Holdings, Inc. (NSE: ZAYO) announced plans to separate into two publicly traded companies temporarily named “InfraCo” and “EnterpriseCo.” InfraCo will focus on providing core communications infrastructure to carriers, web-scale companies, and other large consumers of bandwidth. EnterpriseCo will consist of elements of Zayo’s current Enterprise Networks segment and Allstream segment and will provide high-bandwidth solutions to more than 50,000 enterprises. Continue reading “Allstream and Zayo’s Enterprise Networks to combine and become a public company focused on Enterprise Services”

BOULDER, Colo. – March 1, 2017 – Zayo Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: ZAYO) today announced it has closed its $1.42 billion acquisition of Electric Lightwave (formerly known as Integra Telecom), an infrastructure and telecom services provider serving 35 markets in the western U.S. Continue reading “Zayo closes acquisition of Electric Lightwave”

BOULDER, Colo. – January 15, 2016 – Zayo Group Holdings, Inc. (“Zayo”) (NYSE: ZAYO), the global leader in Communications Infrastructure, today announced it has closed its acquisition of Allstream, Inc. (“Allstream”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Manitoba Telecom Services Inc. (TSX: MBT), for a purchase price of CAD $465 million. The acquisition establishes Zayo as the only Pan-U.S./Canada fiber network provider, and adds five dense metro networks to Zayo’s portfolio. Continue reading “Zayo Completes Acquisition of Allstream”