James F. Booth

For more than 25 years, James Booth has provided consulting and legal services to telecommunications carriers and to enterprise companies that manage their own telecommunications networks. Since June of 2009 he has also served as General Counsel of Spread Networks, LLC, which is the industry leader in the construction and operation of low latency high speed networks. Before joining Spread he was General Counsel for OnFiber Communications, a competitive telecommunications provider, and was the sole attorney for Qwest Communications International in support of its construction of an 18,800 mile fiber optic network spanning the United States. Earlier he was lead counsel for U S WEST in its wireless and cable television ventures in the United States, Europe and Hong Kong.

Monday, January 25, 2010

Telcos Not Yet Willing to Run Their Own CDN; Bharti Airtel Enters via Limelight

Over the past two years, more than a dozen telcos and carriers have entered the CDN space, all with the strategy of re-selling or partnering with a pure-play CDN provider like Akamai (AKAM) or Limelight (LLNW).
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