A group including Zayo Group, LLC is trying to buy broadband network owner Uniti Group Inc. (NasdaqGS:UNIT) and its primary client, Windstream Holdings II LLC, according to people familiar with the matter. The talks with Uniti started in June 2021, when the parties discussed a price of around $15 a share, or some $3.5 billion, for the real-estate investment trust, but they recently stalled over price, the people said. Zayo's owners and Windstream believe bringing the two businesses back together would accelerate the build-out of broadband to as many as a million more households by redirecting the nearly $700 million Windstream spends each year on lease payments, some of the people said.