Liberty Communications is an example of a company that started out decades ago as a rural phone company but has transitioned to being a fiber broadband provider offering highly competitive multi-gigabit speeds and expanding beyond its traditional local service turf….
Gainesville, Florida – September 13, 2023 – (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) – IQ Fiber, North Florida’s only local residential fiber-optic internet service provider, announces construction has begun on its 100% fiber-optic network in Northwest Gainesville and Alachua County. IQ Fiber’s initial Phase…
Biddeford Internet Corporation, which does business as Great Works Internet Vermont (GWI VT), has reached an agreement with 22 Vermont communities to build an open access fiber network in the communities. The network is expected to serve 30,000 locations. The…
Robeson County, North Carolina – September 13, 2023 – FOCUS Broadband has announced the completion of its Community Connect fiber optic broadband initiative in Robeson County, serving residents in the Howellsville, Tolarsville, and Barker Ten Mile communities. This project was…
Kentwood, Michigan – September 12, 2023 – (BUSINESS WIRE) – Metronet today announced that 100% fiber optic internet is now available to residents and businesses in initial construction areas throughout Kentwood. As Metronet’s service becomes available throughout the city, residents…
Clinton, Connecticut — September 12, 2023 — GoNetspeed today announced that the construction of its 100% fiber network, serving Clinton and Westbrook, is officially complete. Through GoNetspeed’s $3.8 million investment, more than 7,300 residents and businesses throughout Clinton and Westbrook…
Altafiber announced that gigabit broadband is available to most single-family homes and business addresses in the Kentucky counties of Boone, Campbell and Kenton counties. The projects were made possible through Altafiber public-private partnerships that were announced in 2021. The regional…
The next generation of passive optical network (PON) technology, known as 25G PON, has seen relatively few deployments, but that appears set to change. Dell’Oro Group recently raised its forecast for 25G PON, also known as 25GS PON, and expects…
Englewood, Colorado – September 7, 2023 – /PRNewswire/ — WOW! Internet, TV & Phone (NYSE: WOW), a leading broadband services provider, today announced it has begun construction in Michigan to bring its reliable, state-of-the-art, all-IP fiber network to consumers in Livingston, Genesee and Oakland counties in the coming months. The company…
Kingston, New York – September 5, 2023 – Archtop Fiber, a provider of multi-gig, 100%-fiber Internet and phone service to residential and business customers across the Northeast, has completed its acquisition of GTel, the fiber-rich, fourth-generation, family-owned voice, video and Internet service provider…
Competitive rural-focused fiber broadband provider Highline says that it has completed construction of an area known as “The Thumb” area of Michigan and now is offering broadband to more than 8,000 households in Sanilac, Tuscola, Lapeer and St. Clair counties….
NTIA has tried hard to generate excitement about Buy America requirements for the $42.5 billion BEAD rural broadband funding program, even enlisting U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris in the process. It appears the efforts are paying off. While some industry…
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