The acquisition comes even as as larger rivals like AT&T, which is acquiring Time Warner in a blockbuster $85.4 billion deal, are focusing on media content at what some call the expense of their foundational connectivity and networking services for enterprise customers.īye, a former CTO for Sprint and vice president of wireless for Cox Communcations, said the deal is a game changer for the industry and for customers. The deal is set to launch C Spire - the largest privately held wireless provider in the country - on a bold bid to accelerate its enterprise IT services business share throughout the country as part of what it calls a "natural" response to customers. TekLinks is one of top partners for Cisco, Dell EMC, VMware, Microsoft, Veam and Citrix. TekLinks, No 146 on the CRN SP500 with 325 employees, did $146 million in sales in 2017. Terms of the deal for Birmingham, Alabama headquartered TekLinks, which is privately owned by Pamlico Capital, were not disclosed.
We are going to not only be able to grow within our existing customer base as we offer them a more complete solution, but also compete more aggressively to take market share away from others."Ĭ Spire expects to complete the acquisition and merger integration process within the next 60-90 days. "We are going to see an acceleration of growth as we integrate what TekLinks has with what we have into an end to end solution all the way from the desktop to the cloud.
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"This is one plus one equals three," said C Spire President Stephen Bye in an interview with CRN.
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The deal makes the combined company the top end to end IT enterprise services provider in the Southeast with over 500 services professionals, four owned and operated data centers with space in others, and 8,000 miles of fiber network serving business customers.Ĭ Spire, which is headquartered in Ridgeland Mississipi and is the largest privately held wireless provider, has a full suite of wireless, TV and internet services for business and homesĬ Spire already had a fast growing enterprise business, but with the acquistion of TekLinks that business is now five times bigger.
The deal puts C Spire into a position to aggressively grab share from telecom behemoths in an enterprise IT services market where customers are demanding a single IT partner that can deliver and control an end to end consumption based IT platform for both wired and wireless. one of the top managed service providers in the country, in a deal that instantly creates a nationwide end to end hybrid IT services powerhouse that can design, implement and deliver a full suite of IT services for enterprise customers both on and off premises. Southeastern regional telecom provider C Spire is acquiring TekLinks Inc.
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