Accenture to buy Ookla and Ziff Davis connectivity assets for $1.2 billion
Mar 4th 2026
Accenture will buy Ziff Davis’s Connectivity division, including Ookla and Speedtest, in a $1.2 billion deal to boost its network intelligence and analytics offerings, while Ziff Davis plans to use proceeds to cut debt.
- Accenture will acquire Ziff Davis’s Connectivity division, including Ookla, Speedtest, Ekahau and RootMetrics, as part of a $1.2 billion deal.
- The purchase is meant to give Accenture deeper network visibility and analytics to help communication service providers, hyperscalers and enterprises optimize Wi Fi and 5G networks.
- Ookla’s platform captures more than 1,000 attributes per user speed test and feeds analytics used for fraud prevention, smart home monitoring and retail traffic optimization.
- The transaction is subject to closing conditions and regulatory approval and is expected to close in the coming months.
- Ziff Davis plans to use the proceeds to pay down about $872 million of disclosed debt.
- Ziff Davis’s Connectivity unit generated $231 million in revenue last year, about 16 percent of company sales, and its shares jumped roughly 81 percent after the deal was announced, adding about $800 million to market value.