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BCI Broadband, a new player on the cable systems scene headed by two former Bresnan Communications executives, has agreed to purchase small market MSO Allegiance Communications in a deal the company says could be the first in an aggressive growth plan.

BCI is headed by former Bresnan president Jeff DeMond and former Bresnan chief financial officer Andrew Kober. BCI is backed by BBH Capital Partners, the private equity division of investment bank Brown Bros. Harriman.

In a four-way transaction, Arris Group said it will sell Comcast approximately $150 million in stock in connection with Arris’s proposed $2.35 billion deal for Motorola Mobility's Home business with Google -- which will result in the cable company and Google each owning about 7.85% of Arris.

WaveDivision Holdings said it has completed the $50 million acquisition of Black Rock Cable, a Bellingham, Wash.-based fiber optic  network services provider that it says will help it expand its commercial services offerings throughout the Northwest.

WaveDivision, parent of Wave Broadband which has about 400,000 customers in parts of Washington, Oregon and Northern California, recently completed a $1 billion recapitalization to help finance its continued growth.

Dish Network launched a surprise bid for Clearwire late Tuesday, offering more than $5 billion for the troubled WiMax pioneer and potentially setting the stage for a battle for control with its largest shareholder Sprint Nextel.

In a brief statement Tuesday, Dish said that it had approached Clearwire and made an offer of $3.30 per share for its outstanding stock, a bid that would appear to far outpace the $2.97 per share that Sprint-Nextel agreed to pay for the remaining shares it does not already own in the WiMax pioneer.

Billing services giant CSG Systems International said it has extended its customer care and billing contract with Time Warner Cable through March 2017.