American Fiber Sys. to Acquire Marietta

American Fiber Systems, which operates metro fiber networks in five cities nationwide, to acquire Marietta FiberNet, a CLEC, offering voice, data and Internet services to business clients in the north metro Atlanta area. Financial terms were not disclosed.



Marietta FiberNet was the first municipally owned telecommunications operation to be certified in the State of Georgia.



AFS has deployed over 76,000 miles of metropolitan fiber optic cable since 2000 in several cities, including Cleveland, OH; Kansas City, KS/MO; Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN; Nashville, TN; and Salt Lake City, UT. It has over 400 capacity enabled on-net buildings. http://www.americanfibersystems.comhttp://www.mfn.net