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Zayo: Ma Activity
Zayo completed acquisition of Crown Castle's Fiber Solutions business, adding 90,000 metro-dense route miles to expand North American network for AI and enterprise connectivity
Source: Financial Post
The leadership read
Consolidation of this kind shifts demand toward integration and transformation leadership bench strength in telecommunications.
Market context: Against a Talent Market Index of 98.6 (Neutral) (down 1.4 month-on-month), Americas is at easing (-2.6pts) on signal share.
Zayo: 1 signal in the last 90 days — in line with the Telecommunications median of 1 across 53 tracked companies; 0.1% of MitchelLake's Americas signal flow.
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