In a deal involving Ohio service providers, NKTelco has acquired Hometown Cable. The deal includes more than 6,000 addresses in and around the communities of Coldwater, St. Henry and Montezuma, as well as fixed wireless access assets serving Mercer, Auglaize,…
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Capital Project Fund (CPF) has approved $162.5 million in funding for Ohio. The funding is comprised of $77.5 million for a broadband infrastructure program and $85 million for multi-purpose community facilities. The programs represent…
Dublin, OH, has selected altafiber for a public-private partnership to create a 10 Gbps fiber network serving all residents of the city. The service provider will invest about $35 million to the project, which will take three years to complete….
Altafiber has agreed to acquire the broadband infrastructure assets of Bridgewired, LLC, a Waynesville, Ohio-based company that operates a fiber optic network delivering gigabit Internet speeds to locations in portions of Warren County, Greene County, and Clinton County. The deal…
Altafiber, the company formerly known as Cincinnati Bell, has reached a public-private partnership agreement with Warren County, Ohio that will bring fiber-based gigabit access to about 52,000 addresses in the county. The addresses include 50,000 single family units and 2,000…
Altafiber has agreed to a public private partnership with Butler County, Ohio for a broadband project that will bring gigabit high-speed broadband fiber Internet access to approximately 60,000 addresses over the next three to four years. Once the project is…
Regional Midwest fiber broadband provider Omni Fiber has acquired Ohio Telecom. Terms of the transaction, which closed today, were not disclosed. It’s the latest example of private equity getting aggressive in fiber broadband. Omni Fiber was created earlier this year…
Ohio has received $6,470,550.76 in planning grants from the Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). The funding is aimed at planning for the deployment of high-speed networks and developing digital stills training programs. The funding was established…
New regional provider Omni Fiber has announced that it will bring FTTP broadband to the Ohio communities of Clyde, Dover and Shelby. They are the service provider’s initial markets in the state. Work has begun in Clyde and is scheduled…
Brightspeed says that it will pass 380,000 addresses with its XGS-PON fiber broadband in Ohio during the next few years. The company says that more than 170,000 of those passings will be completed by the end of next year. The…
Altafiber and the Butler Rural Electric Cooperative are expanding an existing partnership to deploy broadband infrastructure to 5,000 more addresses in Butler, Preble and Montgomery counties, Ohio. The availability to these addresses will begin during the first half of next…
Altafiber and its Unicity Smart City organization will bring its fiber-enabled Wi-Fi network to three entertainment venues in the city of Kettering, Ohio under a five-year agreement with the municipality. The company is the rebranded Cincinnati Bell, which has a…
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