Paetec to Buy McLeod, Expand in Fiber Optics
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Paetec Holding, the U.S. phone company focused on corporate customers, agreed to buy closely held McLeodUSA for $492 million in stock to gain its high-speed fiber-optic network.
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Nexen Inc. (NXY.TO: Quote, Profile, Research) , Canada&#39;s fourth largest oil explorer, said on Friday it would buy a UK-based subsidiary of EnCana Corp.
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By Seattle Times  Dec. 19--Clearwire, the wireless broadband provider founded by Craig McCaw, filed plans Today to raise up to $400 million in an initial public offering.
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Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd., India&#39;s top phone and broadband provider, on Monday said it plans to buy Tyco International Ltd.&#39;s undersea fiber-optic network for $130 million, a move an analyst said could spawn a number of similar deals involving foreign
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PMC-Sierra, Inc. (Nasdaq:PMCS) today announced that its Fiber to the  Home (FTTH) solution is now deployed in more than four million Gigabit  EPON Optical Network Units (ONUs).
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Telecom carrier consolidation in the U.S. trickled down to competitive service providers on Monday as Paetec Holding Corp. agreed to acquire McLeodUSA, creating a company that will serve businesses in most of the country's largest metropolitan areas.
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Advanced Medical Optics Inc.  has offered to buy larger eye-care company Bausch & Lomb Inc.  for $4.23 billion, topping a rival offer of $3.67 billion from private equity firm Warburg Pincus , the two companies said on Thursday.
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Ciena has agreed to acquire World Wide Packets in a deal, valued at about $290 million, that will bring together two players in the growing carrier Ethernet market.
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CommScope Inc.  plans to buy rival communications equipment maker Andrew Corp.  for about $2.6 billion to help both sides cut manufacturing costs, the companies said on Wednesday.
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Nexen Inc. has agreed to buy a UK-based subsidiary of EnCana Corp. in an all-cash deal worth $2.1 billion, enabling Canada&#39;s fourth largest oil explorer to expand into the UK sector of the North Sea.
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The maker of cable for communications companies has agreed to buy the Andrew Corporation for about $2.6 billion to bolster sales to mobile phone and wireless Internet companies.
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Cisco said it is buying Cognio Inc. to  round out its wireless networking product line to include wireless network spectrum analysis and management.
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Independent oil and gas producer Plains Exploration & Production Co.  will buy peer Pogo Producing Co.  for $3.46 billion in stock and cash, nearly doubling its production capacity, Plains said on Tuesday.
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SBC Communications taps the French telecom equipment maker to upgrade its network with fiber-optic technology.
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German chip maker Infineon Technologies has agreed to buy Texas Instruments' DSL Customer Premises Equipment (CPE)Â business in a deal expected to close by the end of the summer, the companies said.
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Verbatim will offer an expanded range of optical, magnetic and flash products.
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Cobham, the niche defence and aerospace supplier, has bought Remec Defense &amp; Space, a company that specialises in battlefield communications equipment, for $260m from the Remec group.