"Telia International Carrier recognizes dark fiber is still an active market," says Erik Heilborn, president of Telia IC. For companies looking to build particular types of customer solution or to develop a network in terms of expansion or increasing redundancy, buying fiber is far more cost-effective than digging up roads and laying down new infrastructure in the ground."
Telia has also acquired from Telewest three pairs of fiber between Leicester and Birmingham, completing a figure-eight topography across the UK, it said.