Level 3 purchases Global Crossing

I just blogged about this in last week,  about the “last mile” being very important for a Carrier to survive. I thought Sprint might be the one to get acquired or look to acquire, but Global Crossing is another Carrier who does not have a local footprint. Level 3 will gain a greater international presence and domestic long haul network. Global Crossing will get what is has always been lacking, the “last mile” presence. The Carrier space is definitely getting crowded, so I suspect this is the just the beginning of things to come.  Leading  to more confusion, as the Carriers continue to work on growing through acquisition, and forget about the customer. Carriers will still have the issues of merging networks, merging databases, and merging different company environments. It sounds like there will be a stronger need in the future for companies such as Intelletrace to assist in navigating through the mess which may be created.  The Carriers, themselves, are already working with Intelletrace to assist.