Ziply Fiber, the company that bought Frontier’s operations in the Northwest, is upgrading broadband speeds at no extra charge to customers beginning tomorrow. A Ziply spokesperson said the move was designed to “surprise-and-delight” customers. The company says that the all-fiber…
The Washington Broadband Office tentatively awarded $121 million through the state’s Broadband Infrastructure Grant/ ARPA Capital program this week. As a result, local providers – as well as some larger companies — could be building broadband networks soon in rural…
Ziply Fiber has launched symmetrical 10 Gbps service across its entire Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana fiber footprint. The service costs $300 per month and includes a one-time $300 installation fee. Subscribers can provide their own router – which must…
Ziply Fiber announced its first edge-out market today – Yakima, Washington, where the company has begun deploying fiber broadband that will offer speeds up to 5 Gbps symmetrically. The community is outside Ziply’s local service footprint but had been asking…
Ziply Fiber today continued its recent aggressive acquisition activity by agreeing to acquire Ptera, Inc., a fiber internet and fixed wireless internet provider serving four counties across Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho, in a deal expected to close later this…
Kirkland, Washington – March 8, 2023 – Ziply® Fiber announced today plans to upgrade its existing copper infrastructure to ultrahigh-speed, 100 percent fiber-optic networks in four markets across Washington and Oregon, with construction getting underway in Q1 2023. The first two markets, Banks, Oregon and Riddle, Oregon, already have their first sets of addresses live and ready for service. With the addition of…
Ziply Fiber is establishing a new Point of Presence (PoP) to serve the fast-growing data center market in Portland, OR, through an expanded partnership with GTT Communications, Inc. The new PoP is providing an initial 400G of capacity to customers…
Ziply Fiber will be acquiring iFIBER Communications, a provider of high-speed fiber internet services. iFIBER’s current owners are public utility districts (PUDs) in western, central and eastern Washington, and residents of those counties will continue to receive service over the…
Kirkland, Washington (September 8, 2022) – Ziply® Fiber (“Ziply”) today announced $450 million in new funding to support its ongoing fiber network expansion in the Northwest. In its first two years of operation, the company upgraded its copper network to fiber…
Ziply Fiber says that it has agreed to acquire Eastern Oregon Net (EONI), a provider of fiber broadband, fixed wireless and voice services to residential and commercial customers in Baker, Union and Wallowa counties in northeast Oregon. The transaction must…
Kirkland, Wash. (May 31, 2022) – Ziply® Fiber announced today that its ultra-high-speed, 100-percent fiber-optic network is now ready for service in Myrtle Point, Oregon, enabling its popular “Gig-speed” service and its industry leading 5-gig and 2-gig residential services to more than 1,200…
Ziply Fiber has expanded its multi-gigabit service in 30 more cities, making service available to more than 364,000 additional locations. The new multi-gigabit markets include: Washington: Anacortes, Arlington, Burlington, Duvall, Granite Falls, Kennewick, Lynden and Mount Vernon. Oregon: Bandon, Brookings,…
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