Zayo Group, LLC
Lobbying client
Zayo Group is a fiber-optic network and telecommunications infrastructure company, headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, that builds and leases dark fiber, bandwidth, and data-center connectivity to carriers, enterprises, and government agencies, and has been owned since a 2020 buyout by private equity firms EQT and Digital Colony. It filed 3 lobbying disclosures in 2026, paying three firms, 99 Solutions, B2GNY Group, and Brown & Weinraub Advisors, a combined $23,400 to lobby on local fiber-optic and technology legislation. It holds $499,880 in active city contracts as of August 2026, part of $17.9 million in city contracts registered since 2013.
- Council members lobbied
- 51 (citywide)
- Filings (since 2024)
- 3
- Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
- $23,400
- Industry (per city contracts)
- Goods
- City contracts (active)
- $499,880 · 2 contracts
- Awarded all-time
- $17,895,452 · 12 since 2013, incl. expired
- Paid to date
- $9,542,982
- Won without a fresh bid
- 53% of contract value · $9,543,852 · 10 contracts
Represented by lobbyist firms
- 99 Solutions LLC. Lobbyist firm
- B2GNY GROUP LLC Lobbyist firm
- Brown & Weinraub Advisors, LLC Lobbyist firm
Holds contracts at
- Board of Elections City agency
- Department of Correction City agency
- Department of Education City agency
- Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications City agency
What they lobbied on
subjects from their filings
- Local Legislation (including introduction) - Fiber and Technology
- Local Legislation (including introduction) - fiber optic industry
- Procurement - Provision of lobbying and related services towards appropriate local-government entities in the City of New York
City contracts
Registered city contracts, largest first by current contract value (not amount spent): running now, then registered to start later, then ended. Totals count every registered contract. Each line shows its Checkbook contract ID. The tag on each row is how it was awarded (“no-bid” = non-competitive).
- ZAYO DARK FIBER AGREEMENT RENEWAL Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications · CT185820180003650 $442,820
- Dark Fiber Subscription Department of Correction · CT107220268804315 $57,060
- To provide Dedicated Internet Access (DIA) Department of Education · MA104020199976480 · ended 2023 $8,292,200
- To provide Dedicated Internet Access (DIA) Department of Education · MA104020249477395 · ended 2024 $3,456,000
- To provide Dedicated Internet Access (DIA) Department of Education · MA104020259570580 · ended 2026 $3,000,000
- DARK FIBER OPTIC CABLE INSTALLATION Department of Correction · CT107220141415361 · ended 2016 $1,273,372
- Provide Installation of Dark Fiber Optic Cable Services Department of Correction · CT107220171402402 · ended 2018 $768,000
- Dark Fiber Services Department of Correction · CT107220191402961 · ended 2021 $316,800
- To procure Zayo Dark Fiber Department of Correction · CT107220238803995 · ended 2024 $121,800
- Fiber Optic support for the Election Night Board of Elections · CT100320221401502 · ended 2023 $64,800