Bluebird Network Expands Fiber Network Through Acquisition by Macquarie Infrastructure Partners
Enterprise, Carrier and Wireless Operator Customers Benefit from Immediate Midwest Fiber Expansion and Accelerated Growth Trajectory
COLUMBIA, MISSOURI — Bluebird Network is excited to announce that Macquarie Infrastructure Partners (MIP) has completed its acquisition of the company. Through MIPs acquisition, Bluebird will increase its fiber footprint even further, providing greater access to existing customers and reaching out to new service areas. Bluebird remains committed to maintaining its personalized level of service while gaining the capacity to increase the scope of its operations.
The transaction provides Bluebird an immediate 2,500 fiber route mile expansion into Illinois, including the cities of Rockford, Peoria, Bloomington, Normal and the Quad Cities area. Future network builds are planned to connect more communities and achieve greater fiber densification. In addition, the company’s underground colocation facility, the Bluebird Underground Data Center, located in Springfield, Missouri, is undergoing a second major expansion to increase power and available space for customers.
Frequently Asked Questions about Acquisition by Macquarie Infrastructure Partners
What are the details of the acquisition?
Bluebird Network, LLC (“Bluebird”), is excited to announce the close of its acquisition by Macquarie Infrastructure Partners (“Macquarie”), a fund managed by Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets, one of the world’s leading alternative asset managers. Through this acquisition, Bluebird increased its fiber footprint even further, providing greater access to existing customers and reaching out to new service areas. The transaction provides Bluebird an immediate 2,500 fiber route mile expansion into Illinois, Iowa and Indiana, including the cities of Rockford, Peoria, Bloomington, Normal and the Quad Cities area. Included in this transaction, Bluebird will be acquiring existing customers from Uniti Midwest.
Bluebird remains committed to maintaining its personalized level of service while increasing the scope of its operations. This acquisition strengthens the company’s promise to best serve its customers, providing businesses and communities access to robust, flexible, high-speed transport and internet services.
Bluebird Network Adopts Data Driven Sales Prospecting with Connected2Fiber’s Market Explorer Capability
BOSTON, MA — Connected2Fiber, the Industry Cloud for Connectivity, announces today that Bluebird Network has signed an agreement to extend their use of The Connected World platform by signing up for the company’s Market Explorer capability. Bluebird Network is an existing client and utilizing many of the platform’s capabilities, including Building List Manager, which automates the process of developing a comprehensive building list and sending it to trusted partners.
Market Explorer will help Bluebird extend its data-driven approach to go-to-market activities by serving as an application that leverages Connected2Fiber’s authoritative location insight to help more effectively prospect sales territories. The easy-to-use application enables users to dynamically define search parameters for a set of locations within any given market. The attributes displayed span data about the location itself, networks that service the building (or buildings close by), and tenants within the building.
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