America’s broadband investment reached a twenty-year high in 2021, driving $86 billion in capital expenditures (CAPEX) into the nation’s communications infrastructure and making US broadband networks faster and more widely available.
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Fiberlight Network to be Acquired
A consortium led by funds managed by H.R.L. Morrison & Co (“Morrison & Co”), a global infrastructure investment firm focused on the digital and renewables sectors, and including Australian Retirement Trust (“ART”) and a managed client of UBS Asset Management, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire FiberLight, LLC (“FiberLight”), a leading fiber infrastructure provider with more than 20 years of experience building and operating mission-critical, high-bandwidth networks, from Thermo Companies. The investment will accelerate FiberLight’s network expansion, positioning it to take advantage of the rapidly growing fiber infrastructure market. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.