Rumor Of AT&T Acquiring Akamai Appears To Be The Latest Of Many
Dan Rayburn | Wednesday August 12, 2009 | 01:16 PM | Comments (2)
I've been bombarded with calls and e-mails all morning asking me if I know anything about the the rumor that AT&T is looking to take over Akamai. For the record, I have not heard anything substantial and every few months we keep hearing a rumor like this. Funny thing is, you never seem to know where the rumor started or who it was started by. It seems that every quarter, for at least the past two years, rumors have circulated that AT&T, Cisco, IBM or Microsoft is going to take Akamai out of the market. Sure, it could always happen, (well not Microsoft) but I don't know of anything currently taking place.
It is just rumor.^^ it can be interesting to their competitors such as limelight, level3, Recently, most ISP having their presence in regional, have interesting to small to midium scale CDN plays. It will be trend for enhancing of their presense and biz in the world.
Posted by: akamai's competitor | Thursday, August 13, 2009 at 12:41 AM
It is about time telcos woke up to what Akmamai can provide them - cross network reach that they can't get on their own due to regulations.
Posted by: About Time | Thursday, August 13, 2009 at 01:48 PM