(LA Times - Time Warner Cable) The nation's second-largest cable operator, Time Warner Cable Inc., which has some 12 million cable subscribers, including 2 million in Southern California, has added about 700,000 customers with its $3-billion purchase of Insight Communications Co. Inc.

(The Wall Street Journal) Google will pay $40 a share to buy Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion and gives the Android software owner its own cellphone company as well as numerous patents. The purchase also gives Google access to Motorola's video solutions business, which according to Business Insider may give Google TV a boost.

(Source Windstream) LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Windstream Corp. (Nasdaq: WIN) has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire PAETEC Holding Corp. (Nasdaq: PAET), based in Fairport, N.Y., in a transaction valued at approximately $2.3 billion.

The new company will serve business customers in 46 states and the District of Columbia and maintain approximately 100,000 fiber route miles across the country. Windstream will offer data center services across the United States and have improved capability to serve multi-location business customers.

(ECS TELECOM) lowt1rates.com Low T1 rates announced today expanded quote options with the inclusion of Multi-National carriers and improved menu navigation features. "Pleased to implement and announce new expanded carrier solution options for clients" and further adds "enhanced menu options to easily request quotes with real-time results".

(source Qwest) - Qwest is becoming CenturyLink, creating the third-largest telecommunications company in the US. The combined company will operate under the CenturyLink brand. The combined company will create a new force in the telecommunications industry that will improve the options they are able to offer to business customers.

Integra Telecom is a facilities-based CLEC offering service across 11 states and currently the 4th largest CLEC in the U.S. Integra Telecom owns and operates its own fiber network offering high-speed Internet and data services including digital subscriber line (DSL), local dial tone, domestic and international long distance, voice messaging, and numerous additional features including business phone systems.

ECS Telecom has expanded global connectivity options to clients with the latest patrnership announcement with Mosaic NetworX. Mosaic is a global telecommunications carrier and Network Integrator that provides high bandwidth connectivity services within, and among, top U.S. markets and Internationally. Mosaic provides a broad range of Wide-Area Network (WAN), Dedicated Internet Access (DIA), MPLS and Ethernet solutions globally.

BOSTON - Windstream Hosted Solutions, one of the nation’s premier providers of enterprise-class cloud computing and managed hosting solutions, announced today that it has completed its new multimillion dollar data center expansion project in downtown Boston. The new SAS 70 Type II compliant data center has nearly doubled in size, making it one of the most advanced and largest managed services facilities in the Boston Metro area.

Todd Spangler -- Multichannel News - Clearwire, together with Comcast and Sprint Nextel, announced the expansion of its 4G WiMax network in the greater Washington, D.C., and Baltimore metro areas.

The announcements come a day after Sprint Nextel and Clearwire came to terms on a new long-term wholesale agreement, under which Sprint agreed to pay Clearwire at least $1 billion in 2011 and 2012 for 4G services. Sprint holds a 54% stake in Clearwire. Comcast also is an investor in Clearwire along with Time Warner Cable, Bright House Network, Intel and Google. Comcast resells the 4G service -- and Sprint's 3G nationwide service -- on a wholesale basis