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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-22-098038"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CCOI"
cik: "0001158324"
company_name: "COGENT COMMUNICATIONS HOLDINGS, INC."
filed_at: "2022-09-07T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-23T13:45:50.455190+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.85
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Cogent to acquire T-Mobile's Wireline business; $1 purchase price plus $700M IP transit deal

## Summary
- Purchase price of $1 for membership interests; T-Mobile to pay $700M for IP transit services over 54 months.
- Acquisition includes Sprint's U.S. long-haul fiber network, customers, and related liabilities.
- Expected to close in second half of 2023, subject to regulatory approvals and conditions.
- Cogent does not plan to issue new debt or equity; dividend per share expected to continue increasing.
- Morgan Stanley advised Cogent; Houlihan Lokey advised T-Mobile.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-22-098038
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CCOI
- cik: 0001158324
- company_name: COGENT COMMUNICATIONS HOLDINGS, INC.
- filed_at: 2022-09-07T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.85
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1158324/000110465922098038/0001104659-22-098038-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1158324/000110465922098038/tm2225313d1_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-22-098038.txt

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