Hammer Fiber to Acquire 1stPoint Communications

On May 8, 2018

Hammer Fiber Optics Holdings Corp. (DBA Hammer Communications), announced that it is set to acquire the stock of 1stPoint Communications, LLC and its subsidiaries, including Open Data Centers, LLC and Endstream Communications, LLC. 1stPoint is a competitive local exchange carrier operating nationwide with intellectual property in services such as SMS/texting, collaboration tools and carrier switching. Endstream Communications offers wholesale voice services worldwide. Open Data Centers operates a carrier-neutral colocation facility in Piscataway, and will provide the brick-and-mortar capacity to further Hammer’s growth.

“The acquisition is an ideal combination of intellectual property, creates a very strong management team and offers operational synergies for Hammer,” said Erik Levitt, CEO of 1stPoint Communications. “Hammer will not only have the benefit of the exclusive rights to the patented AIR wireless technology but also to 1stPoint’s switching technology, its underlying CLECs and its Commercial Mobile Radio Services operator.”

Hammer Communications operates a fixed wireless network over its own proprietary wireless technology that utilizes DOCSIS 3.0 & DOCSIS 3.1 protocols. Through its access network, Hammer offers Internet, television and voice services to residential customers as well as to small and medium businesses in Atlantic County, N.J. Hammer also offers carrier class services through its fiber-optic network in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Recently, Hammer Communications has also unveiled its cloud hosting and infrastructure as a service platform offering hosting, cloud and colocation services. As part of the acquisition, the Open Data Centers facility in Piscataway will allow Hammer to expand and grow these offerings.

“We are proud of how far we have been able to take Hammer in the past few quarters,” said Mark Stogdill, founder of Hammer Fiber. “We look forward to how much further these acquisitions will move us in our plans. With the acquisition of 1stPoint’s CLECs and Commercial Mobile Radio Services, we will be able to grow the wireless residential access platform and look toward a national network. In addition, the Open Data Centers facility in Piscataway, along with its server and switching platforms, is a significant addition to our core infrastructure to support major growth in the cloud and hosting markets.”

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