People in general don't care about telco acquisitions unless there's a major strategic consequence. The example the author gives “Google buys Spanish Ono for $9

People in general don't care about telco acquisitions unless there's a major strategic consequence. The example the author gives “Google buys Spanish Ono for $9.5bn to start Google Fiber throughout Europe” would have huge consequences for everyone from consumers to device manufacturers to content providers throughout Europe. Normal telco consolidation is rarely anything other than the slow march of monopoly. A 16 year old cable company is barely a startup, and highly unrelatable to the startup community at large. The same story about a US company wouldn't get coverage here unless there was a major strategic element. Kudos to the founders and funders, but it's not a particularly inspirational story for other entrepreneurs. The kinds of companies that get the most coverage here are very young and generally have a global reach. A regional company (which most telcos are) in say New England wouldn't get much coverage in the pacific northwest. This isn't a regional or even a cultural issue, just a significance issue.