Boxborough, MA-based Lightower Fiber Networks, a bandwith service provider and operator of data-transporting fiber networks, said today that it is acquiring New York City-based Lexent Metro Connect, which provides custom-built dark fiber networks. The company is not revealing how much it paid for Lexent, but has said that the acquisition will expand its base in New York and New Jersey, adding more than 150 miles of fiber and 200 commercial buildings to the Lightower network. Lexent is Lightower’s second acquisition this year; in May the company purchased Westford, MA-based fiber operator Veroxity Technology Partners.
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Erin Kutz has a background in covering business, politics and general news. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Boston University. Erin previously worked in the Boston bureau of Reuters, where she wrote articles on the investment management and mutual fund industries. While in college, she researched for USA Today reporter Jayne O’Donnell’s book, Gen Buy: How Tweens, Teens and Twenty-Somethings Are Revolutionizing Retail. She also spent a semester in Washington, DC, reporting Capitol Hill stories as a correspondent for two Connecticut newspapers and interning in the Money section of USA Today, where she assisted with coverage on the retail and small business beats. Erin got her first taste of reporting at Boston University’s independent student newspaper, as a city section reporter and fact checker and editor of the paper’s weekly business section.
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