“Bringing UTOPIA Fiber to Syracuse City remains extremely important for the future growth of our community,” said Mayor Mike Gailey. “UTOPIA Fiber has the track record to deliver on speed, capacity, and reliability, as we position our city to be competitive in the digital economy,” noted the mayor.

“We’re really excited to expand the UTOPIA Fiber network here in Syracuse City. UTOPIA Fiber brings choice for residents and businesses. When you have competition, it protects net neutrality, keeps prices in-line, and provides greater reliability,” said Roger Timmerman, Executive Director of UTOPIA Fiber. “Competition solves everything, and that’s what we’re all about,” he said.

In addition to providing fiber access to homes and businesses, UTOPIA Fiber will continue its longstanding partnership with the city to provide connections to schools and other community anchors. The network will add Smart City services like free public wifi, air pollution monitoring, and its EDWIN Project, an early-wildfire detection system to help save lives and property.

Including Syracuse City, UTOPIA Fiber provides fiber-to-the-home services in 17 cities and business services in 50, connecting communities to the fastest speeds currently offered in the United States. Residential speeds are offered up to 10 Gigabits per second (Gbps), while business speeds reach 100 Gbps. UTOPIA Fiber is a publicly owned Interlocal Agency that operates as an Open Access network. This means that UTOPIA Fiber builds the infrastructure and enables competition among private sector internet service providers (ISPs) via UTOPIA’s fiber lines.

Service maps, build-out timelines, and information on how to sign up for UTOPIA Fiber services in Syracuse City are available at UTOPIAfiber.com.

About UTOPIA Fiber
Created by a group of Utah cities, the Utah Telecommunication Open Infrastructure Agency (UTOPIA) is a community-owned fiber optic network that uses the Open Access model to promote competition by giving customers the freedom to choose which telecommunication services they want from competing providers. With fiber availability to over 130,000 businesses and residences in over 50 communities, UTOPIA Fiber is the largest—and widely considered the most successful—Open Access network in the United States, and enjoys the industry’s highest customer satisfaction scores. Since 2009, the agency has successfully designed, built, and operated nearly $350 million worth of fiber projects throughout Utah, all of which have been funded completely through subscriber revenue, at no cost to taxpayers.

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To meet steep population growth, Payson City officials began working with the UTOPIA Fiber team in 2019 to expedite the completion of the all-fiber network. Conversations were catalyst for a $3.5 million bond, issued by the Utah Infrastructure Agency (UTOPIA Fiber’s sister agency) early in 2021 to expand and complete the network—paid solely through subscriber revenue, not by taxpayers.

“Thanks to the early-on vision of Payson’s city leaders, our residents and businesses are perfectly positioned to take advantage of all that the digital economy offers,” said Bill Wright, Payson City Mayor. “Everyone in the city having access to UTOPIA Fiber is a boon for the city’s economic development and quality of life,” added the mayor.

Today, UTOPIA Fiber is laying nearly 50 miles of fiber conduit every month and is fully building cities in months, not years. In a survey released in October (that included Payson City residents), 83% of respondents said they were glad their city invested in UTOPIA Fiber. Additionally, 76% report that the network has improved their quality-of-life, and 75% say their community is better because of the all-fiber network.

Payson joins a long list of Utah cities that UTOPIA Fiber has completed including Brigham City, Centerville, Midvale, Morgan City, Perry, Layton, Lindon, Tremonton, West Point, and Woodland Hills.

According to Roger Timmerman, the network has an extensive pipeline of fiber projects throughout the state: “As excited as we are about being invited to build fiber networks in communities throughout Utah, we’re truly delighted to deliver a completed project to Payson City.”

Today, UTOPIA Fiber provides fiber-to-the-home services in 17 cities, and commercial services in over 50. It operates as an Open Access network, meaning that UTOPIA Fiber builds the infrastructure and allows private sector ISPs to offer net-neutral internet services through public fiber lines. Service starts at $65/month for 250/250 Mbps and residents have the option to choose speeds up to 10 Gbps (up to 100 Gbps for business) from 15 local providers—the fastest internet speeds in the nation.

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As the company enters a new phase of growth, Indigo has also unveiled a refreshed brand as of 14th June 2021, which includes changing the brand name of the company to Indigo from Indigo Telecom Group.  This includes a full integration of Indigo’s subsidiary, 4site, into the Indigo brand. This rebrand reflects the increased number of partnerships the company has forged with hyperscalers, enterprises and data centres.

The refreshed Indigo brand includes a new tagline “Engineering a Digital Future” in reference to Indigo’s position as a global leader in digital infrastructure. The new brand reflects Indigo’s focus on capitalising on global market opportunities around Data Centres, Fibre to the Home (FTTH), Wireless/5G, Digitisation and Telco Network Services.

ADVA, a leading provider of open networking technology for cloud and mobile connectivity, recently signed up to Indigo’s NOC and FLM services. Roy Friend, Service Business Manager, ADVA, said: “At ADVA, we work directly with our customers to develop network solutions that enable them to grow their business and seize new opportunities. One of the keys to our success here is working with partners that can help us exceed expectations. That’s why we chose Indigo to help us deliver unbeatable support services. With its proven NOC and FLM Service and excellent track record in meeting SLAs, Indigo is a partner that we can trust.”

Led by new CEO Ian Duggan, Indigo continues to expand internationally at pace with services available in 90 countries. From May this year, Indigo has bolstered its presence in the APAC region by building its on-the-ground team and committing to revenue growth over the course of 2021 and beyond. To cater for increased demand for fibre, 5G and data centre engineering services, Indigo also scaled up operations in Germany and the USA.  In May this year Mike Maziarka joined the company as Sales Operations Manager for the USA to accelerate the growth the company is experiencing in the region and to focus on securing multinational customers across the USA.

Kevin Taylor MBE, Executive Chairman, Indigo: “The Indigo board is pleased to announce that the 4site brand will now be fully integrated into the Indigo brand. We are also taking the opportunity to refresh the Indigo Telecom Group brand to align with the next chapter of our growth. With a global footprint in over 90 countries and as partner to most of the world’s top brands, we pair dynamism and diligence, realising and maximising the value of connectivity from end to end, from present to future.

This brand refresh more accurately reflects this vision to accelerate the limitless possibilities of global connectivity enhancing performance now and into the future.”

Ian Duggan, CEO, Indigo, said: “The growth figures are hugely encouraging for our business and it is testament to the entire team who have worked incredibly hard despite the challenges we’ve all faced over the last year. For Indigo, this next phase will certainly be our most challenging – but one we’re excited to enter. As a business, a huge reason why we’re successful is the people we have. Having the best talent that is diverse and vibrant is also a key factor for us as we grow our footprint internationally. In addition, our commitment to the principles of ESG is at the forefront of everything we do.”

Indigo’s vision is to design, build and support the world’s global digital infrastructure, delivering successful outcomes for customers and partners, whilst building great careers for its people.

Today, Indigo has access to over 1,000 engineers globally supporting data centres, fibre, wireless and network services. In January, the company announced plans to hire 100 people to its Fibre Centre of Excellence in Limerick, Ireland. In 2020 alone, Indigo welcomed 140 people to the team.

For more information, visit www.indigotg.com.

About Indigo

Indigo provides design, build and support engineering services to fixed and mobile carriers, and the enterprise sector since 1997.

Indigo collaborate, challenge, research, and develop to enable our customers to stay ahead of emerging and expanding technologies. With the brightest minds and leading technical insights in the business, we design to innovate, build to evolve, and support to enhance the performance of digital infrastructure better, faster, and more safely than any other player in the market.

With a global footprint in over 90 countries and as a partner to most of the world’s top brands, we pair dynamism and diligence, realising and maximising the value of connectivity from end to end, from present to future. By creating flexible and future-focused digital foundations, our customers are adapting and scaling at pace. We are relentless in our pursuit of innovation empowering our customers to deliver richer experiences for their businesses and more meaningful connections for their customers.

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“I am honored to be recognized alongside great leaders in my region by EY US,” said Beranek. “I am proud to lead a company with high-integrity employees that have greatly contributed to Clearfield’s success. Through our products, we are delivering fiber-fed broadband and are thrilled to have built a company that is capitalizing on the rapid network buildouts happening today and that will accelerate due to the post-pandemic appetite for broadband connectivity.”

Entrepreneur of the Year is one of the preeminent competitive award programs for entrepreneurs and leaders of high-growth companies. The nominees are evaluated based on six criteria: entrepreneurial leadership; talent management; degree of difficulty; financial performance; societal impact and building a values-based company; and originality, innovation and future plans. Since its launch, the program has expanded to recognize business leaders in more than 145 cities in over 60 countries around the world.

“Under Cheri’s leadership, Clearfield’s record and reputation in the community broadband market has grown exponentially,” said Ron Roth, Chairman of the Board for Clearfield. “Clearfield holds a strong competitive position in the market because of its ability to remove obstacles for the integration of wireline and wireless networks and offer fiber management expertise in areas with great growth potential such as 5G, NG-PON, and edge computing. Cheri is very deserving of this recognition. There is no doubt that the Clearfield team will continue providing solutions that enable the lifestyle that better broadband provides under her leadership.”

Cheri was selected by a panel of independent judges. Award winners will be announced during a special virtual celebration on Tuesday, July 27, 2021, becoming lifetime members of an esteemed community of Entrepreneur of the Year alumni from around the world. Regional award winners are eligible for consideration for the Entrepreneur of the Year National Awards, to be announced in November 2021 at the Strategic Growth Forum®, one of the nation’s most prestigious gatherings of high-growth, market-leading companies. The Entrepreneur of the Year National Overall Award winner will then move on to compete for the EY World Entrepreneur of the Year Award in June 2022.

About Clearfield, Inc.

Clearfield, Inc. (NASDAQ: CLFD) designs, manufactures, and distributes fiber optic management, protection and delivery products for communications networks. Our “fiber to anywhere” platform serves the unique requirements of leading incumbent local exchange carriers (traditional carriers), competitive local exchange carriers (alternative carriers), and MSO/cable TV companies, while also catering to the broadband needs of the utility/municipality, enterprise, data center and military markets.  Headquartered in Minneapolis, MN, Clearfield deploys more than a million fiber ports each year. For more information, visit www.SeeClearfield.com.

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The NOVUX ecosystem leverages a flexible, modular, and backwards-compatible architecture that allows operators to adapt and scale to a wide variety of field applications. NOVUX simplifies fiber deployment by allowing operators to use 75% fewer components than existing solutions while delivering fifty times the number of configurations available today. The system is designed with sustainable practices for packaging, labeling, and installation equipment, and it features class-leading innovations like CommScope’s Octopus sealing gel, which offers protection in harsh environments while allowing easy access for upgrades and regular maintenance.

“The demand for fiber broadband is exploding around the world,” said Jeff Heynen, vice president of Broadband Access and Home Networking, Dell’Oro Group. “Service providers are under tremendous pressure to respond to this demand in the midst of growing skilled labor shortages. To solve this problem, service providers require flexible and modular fiber terminals and enclosures that simplify the fiber distribution and installation process and also prepare their networks for both today’s and tomorrow’s optical technologies.”

“Our NOVUX portfolio is all about giving our operator customers the highest degree of agility and flexibility in their growing fiber deployments,” said James DeCoe, vice president, Network Connectivity, CommScope. “The new NOVUX range allows operators to maximize their network and respond quickly to changing market conditions and high-volume demand. These solutions deliver unprecedented ease of installation today, with the flexibility to ensure that the network meets tomorrow’s needs. Furthermore, CommScope offers our customers the security of a dedicated, agile global supply chain built on common platform designs and processes.”

NOVUX Portfolio

NOVUX closures and terminals follow in the footsteps of CommScope’s Fiber Optic Splice Closure, FIST Modular Splice Closure, and Multi-Service Terminals (MST)—which have earned the trust of leading operators around the globe. The NOVUX portfolio was designed with direct input from multiple network operators around the globe. It represents a step forward in fiber deployment solutions and is made possible by CommScope’s ongoing process of feedback and innovation for the world’s leading networks.

• The NOVUX Hardened Terminals offer the widest variety of technologies available from a single platform: single and multi-fiber, splitters, optical tap, fiber indexing, and on-demand hybrid configurations in a minimized footprint for optimal port count and terminal size.

• The NOVUX Compact Closures are the ideal solution for FTTH distribution and drop applications, helping providers prepare for the future. Using state-of-the-art technology, the closure is protected from harsh conditions by CommScope’s Octopus gel seal, which simplifies re-entry for field installers and gives operators peace of mind.

• The NOVUX SRC Closures are the ideal fiber closure for repair, network extensions, and house demarcation—giving providers the agility and flexibility to use it in last-mile fiber network applications, both above and below ground.

• The NOVUX SEC Closures provide an ideal solution for applications where underground work is difficult or impossible. When used with the new CommScope retractable fiber cable, this solution brings together advanced patented technologies and proven high-performance standards, while enabling rapid deployment for horizontal mounting on a building’s outer façade.

As the portfolio expands, CommScope will roll out additional NOVUX fiber solutions to meet the needs of global service providers.

Availability

The NOVUX SRC 100 Closure and Hardened Terminals are now available globally, and the SEC 100 Closures and CSC 100 Compact Closures will be rolled out across multiple regions in the coming months.

CommScope will demo the current NOVUX portfolio this week at ANGA COM, 8-10th June 2021. Visit the company’s ANGA webpage here.

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ADTRAN is Germany’s longest standing broadband equipment developer; its solutions currently connect approximately one in three German homes and businesses to the internet. Joining BUGLAS affords ADTRAN a deeper connection with the local altnet community, increasing ADTRAN’s knowledge of their specific needs and emerging challenges.

BUGLAS brings German altnets together to promote FTTB/H as the only future-proof and sustainable broadband access technology to meet the ever-increasing demand for bandwidth. Member companies collaborate in specialist working groups to discuss, evaluate and define regulatory framework for fibre optics. Working groups also meet to collaborate on fundamental broadband technology decisions, network and wholesale concepts, joint product selection and purchasing, and internal and external cooperation models. These groups will help German altnets meet aggressive connectivity goals, like the European Commission’s goal for all European households to be covered by a gigabit network by 2030.

“We’re pleased to welcome ADTRAN to BUGLAS,” said Wolfgang Heer, CEO at BUGLAS. “ADTRAN has connected more households to broadband than any other network supplier in the German market, and the company employs more than 250 people in Germany. This close proximity means significant advantages and short communication channels for their customers, from the smallest city carriers and municipal utilities to the largest network operators.”

“Joining BUGLAS demonstrates ADTRAN’s international growth and our commitment to engaging in the European altnet ecosystem. We have a proven track record of delivering the right innovations to address the unique needs of any service provider, regardless of its size, location or underlying network infrastructure,” said Ronan Kelly, CTO EMEA and APAC Regions at ADTRAN. “Matched with our dedicated local engineering and R&D teams in Germany, ADTRAN is well equipped to help BUGLAS and its members accelerate programs that build fibre networks, grow their businesses and improve their ability to effectively compete in the market.”

ADTRAN will feature BUGLAS CEO Wolfgang Heer in a webinar on Tuesday, 23 March, at 10:00am CET, focused on achieving Gigabit Society goals with Combo PON. The webinar will also feature FTTH Council Director General Vincent Garnier, Swiss Fibre Net CEO Andreas Waber, BrighterTec GmbH Managing Director Sven Huster and M-net Telekommunikations COO Dr. Hermann Rodler. Together, they will explore strategies to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage while extending GPON and XGS-PON product lifecycles and minimizing infrastructure costs, environmental impact and subscriber churn rate. To learn more, visit the event site here.

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“We needed to be able to explain to our local community whom this $2.7 billion capital investment would benefit,” EPB Vice President Jim Ingraham said during Fiber Broadband Association’s Fiber For Breakfast webinar.

EPB provides electric power and telecommunications services to Hamilton County, Tenn., including the city of Chattanooga. Thanks to EPB’s efforts to expand and implement high-speed broadband and smart grid infrastructures, Chattanooga was an early adopter as one of the first Gigabit cities and is now a 10G city.

In 2006, there wasn’t much literature available about Fiber to the Home (FTTH) deployments, Ingraham explained. And prior to starting on this gigabit journey, EPB had no debt.

“The decision to take on this project was not made lightly,” Ingraham said. “It ended up being a $350 million investment over time but investing in FTTH was well worth it.”

Dr. Bento Lobo is a professor at the University of Tennessee Chattanooga, specializing in finance. Lobo and his team were among the first to produce reports on how to successfully deploy FTTH and smart grid infrastructures, utilizing the experiences of EPB in its first 5 years of FTTH deployments. Ten years later, Ingraham and Lobo teamed up to provide the Chattanooga community context as to how this change in infrastructure positively impacted the local economy.

“Over the past 10 years (dating back to when deployments were finalized in 2011), this infrastructure is responsible for about $2.7 billion of value,” Lobo explained. Using a formula, Lobo and his team determined that EPB’s project brought significant monetary value to the community through economic development in the form of business investments, startup funding, real estate developments and more. Significant positive effects were also reported in business, household and community categories like healthcare, telecommuting and education. The smart grid itself–which allows for more reliable connections to electricity even through natural disasters and severe weather events while also reducing carbon emissions–was valued at $750 million, or about 20% of the total value of the project.

“Economic development is a big deal in terms of how this kind of infrastructure can impact a community,” Lobo said. “The idea of being a ‘Gig City’ has really stuck in Chattanooga. This study shows that the economic story is a deciding factor in whether or not people and businesses come to an area. Fiber optic infrastructure impacted local economic development to the extent of $1.41 billion in business investments, new startups, real estate development and taxes.”

The study also identifies additional realized benefits like the addition of more than 9,500 local jobs and a value-to-cost ratio of 4.42x–both benefits exceeding projected net benefits and at a quicker pace.

But it’s not just those face value economics that count.

“Bandwidth matters for more than latency frustrations,” Lobo explained. “The time savings from using 25/3–the current FCC benchmark–versus 1G is over 1 minute when downloading a 12MB file.”

Picture that time savings on a large scale. Chattanooga is home to a lot of radiologists. According to Lobo, a 1G connection saves radiologists 1,000 hours a year, merely in upload and download time.

“There are so many ways in which the internet adds to our lives,” Lobo reflected on learning, working and shopping to name a few.

Looking back, Ingraham has no doubts that embarking on this FTTH journey was the right decision for the community.

“We went to the people and told them what we want to do and why we wanted to do it. For as long as people could remember cable, phone and internet costs were increasing year over year while the service quality was getting worse and worse,” Ingraham said. “We offered a quality alternative, and it’s paid off.”

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One of the primary benefits of introducing ADTRAN’s innovative SDX and Mosaic platforms into the network is to streamline the current delivery of fibre services and the future introduction of higher speed symmetric services with next-generation fibre technologies. This has been evident throughout this rapid integration, where the fastest ever introduction and launch of a new vendor for a project of this scale was experienced. This benefit is key as Openreach looks to achieve its ambition of making its gigabit-capable Full Fibre broadband network available to 20 million homes by the mid-to-late 2020s.

Millions of premises will be able to benefit from a range of competing service providers using Openreach’s new digital network. More than 660 retail carriers across the UK rely on Openreach to deliver reliable wholesale capacity to support a broad portfolio of dynamic services to enterprise, small-to-medium businesses and residential customers.

Peter Bell, Director, Network Technology, Openreach said: “We’re fully committed to building the UK’s leading ultrafast, ultra-reliable Full Fibre broadband network and to reinforce our vital role in keeping the nation connected. We’re confident that our new network will help deliver a host of social and economic benefits to the UK – from boosting productivity to enabling more home working and fewer commuting trips.

“Our engineers have been building faster than ever during the pandemic, and we’re working closely with strategic partners like ADTRAN to help us innovate, extend and accelerate the build even further, without compromising on quality. Our partnership with ADTRAN gives us the ability to scale the build and deliver on our commitment to reaching 20 million homes with FTTP by the mid-to-late 2020s.”

Stuart Broome, Vice President of EMEA Sales, ADTRAN said: “ADTRAN is dedicated to delivering the products, technology and services required to support Openreach in its highly ambitious nationwide deployment goals. We are completely committed to the goal of making multi-gigabit services available across the UK to every home and business. We’re excited to see the network capability advancing so rapidly and look forward to expanding the deployment as part of this partnership.”

To upgrade to a Full Fibre broadband service, subscribers can use the Openreach fibre checker to check what infrastructure is available at their home or business and view a list of the broadband providers which offer a service on the new digital network.

About Openreach

Openreach Limited is the UK’s digital network business.  

We’re 35,000 people, working in every community to connect homes, schools, shops, banks, hospitals, libraries, mobile phone masts, broadcasters, governments and businesses – large and small – to the world. 

Our mission is to build the best possible network, with the highest quality service, making sure that everyone in the UK can be connected.   

We work on behalf of more than 660 communications providers like SKY, TalkTalk, Vodafone, BT and Zen, and our broadband network is the biggest in the UK, passing more than 31.8m UK premises.

Over the last decade we’ve invested more than £14 billion into our network and, at more than 185 million kilometres, it’s now long enough to wrap around the world 4,617 times. 

Today we’re building an even faster, more reliable and future-proof broadband network which will be the UK’s digital platform for decades to come.

We’re making progress towards our FTTP target to reach 20m premises by mid-to-late 2020s. We’ve also hired more than 3,000 trainee engineers this past financial year to help us build that network and deliver better service across the country. 

Openreach is a highly regulated, wholly owned, and independently governed unit of the BT Group. More than 90 per cent of our revenues come from services that are regulated by Ofcom and any company can access our products under equivalent prices, terms and conditions. 

For the year ended 31 March 2020, we reported revenue of £5bn. 

For more information, visit  www.openreach.co.uk. 

About ADTRAN

ADTRAN, Inc. is a leading global provider ofopen, disaggregated networking and communications solutions that enable voice, data, video and internet communications across any network infrastructure. From the cloud edge to the subscriber edge, ADTRAN empowers communications service providers around the world to manage and scale services that connect people, places and things. ADTRAN solutions are currently in use by service providers, private enterprises, government organizations and millions of individual users worldwide. Find more at ADTRAN, LinkedIn and Twitter.

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“This expansion makes it possible for more people in Botetourt County to have fast, reliable fiber internet, which has become a necessity because so many of us are working and learning from home. We are very much looking forward to this new project and excited to bring fiber optic broadband to more households in Botetourt County,” said Diego Anderson, Lumos Senior Vice President and General Manager. “Lumos is a technology leader in the industry because we install fiber all the way to the home and include symmetrical upload and download speed as a standard offering, which results in much more reliable service than other types of broadband access. This is particularly true for video conferencing, distance learning, telehealth, and working from home as many have experienced in recent months.” 

The VATI grant provides financial support to develop high-speed broadband infrastructure in underserved areas. Projects are selected by VATI based on community needs as well as project cost considerations. Amounts awarded are based on how much infrastructure is needed in targeted areas. Botetourt County is one of 11 areas of Virginia that will gain access to high-speed internet from VATI grants totaling $29.6 million.

The Botetourt County project will begin the installation of 59 miles of fiber-optic cable, including areas near Wheatland Road, Old Hollow Road, Lithia, and Exit 162 along Rt. 11. With this announcement, Botetourt County adds to the more than 1,400 residents and businesses who have already been included in announcements of broadband expansions in the past year. As a result, officials anticipate that approximately 85% of residents will soon have access to broadband internet. 

“This grant is fantastic for the residents and business of Botetourt County who have been in need of a broadband solution,” said Dr. Mac Scothorn, Chairman of the Botetourt County Board of Supervisors and Broadband Commission. “Getting fiber-to-the-home is a high priority for all of Botetourt County. We are grateful to be able to partner with Lumos and the state to bring this exceptional service to this area and continue to explore opportunities for other areas of the County.”

With funding in place, the Lumos technical teams will begin working on installation timelines. Preliminary goals indicate that many addresses will have access to the new fiber service later this year and the remainder by mid-year 2022. Lumos will send a notice to residents when construction begins in their area.

Lumos is widely known as an industry leader for its customer satisfaction ratings in service and reliability. As part of Segra, Lumos offers fiber availability to well more than 100,000 homes and businesses in Virginia and North Carolina. The company has plans to continue its growth track of expanded service areas.

Botetourt County residents and business owners who want to find out if service from Lumos is available in their neighborhood should visit lumosnetworks.com or call 855.GO.LUMOS.

About Lumos Networks

Lumos provides high-speed fiber internet, wall-to-wall Wi-Fi, voice, and streaming TV services to residential and business customers in VA as well as in NC, where we’re known as NorthState. But we are more than your average internet company. Our customers enjoy the fastest fiber speeds available built on a network they can truly count on – all backed by local, expert customer care teams. We know that fast, reliable internet is what you need to stay connected to the things that matter. And your connection is our commitment. Lumos and NorthState are a part of Segra, one of the largest independent fiber bandwidth companies in the U.S, headquartered in Charlotte, NC.

About Segra

Segra is one of the largest independent fiber infrastructure bandwidth companies in the Eastern U.S. providing Ethernet, MPLS, dark fiber, advanced data center services, IP and managed services, voice, and cloud solutions, all backed by its industry-leading service and reliability. Customers include carriers, enterprises, governments, and healthcare organizations. In addition, Segra delivers high-speed, fiber-based integrated telecommunications services to residential and business customers in portions of Virginia under the Lumos Networks brand name and in the Piedmont Triad region of North Carolina under the NorthState brand name. For more information about Segra’s technology and commitment to customer care, visit segra.com.  

About Botetourt County

Botetourt County (Pop. 33,494) is a 542 sq. mile community in Southwestern Virginia. The rural community is located in the southwestern portion of the state in the scenic Roanoke Valley of Virginia. Strategically located on Interstate 81 and just 20 miles to Interstate 64, Botetourt County is accessible to the markets of the Mid-West and the East. Botetourt County has a five-member elected Board of Supervisors which oversees most of the county’s government-related operations. In addition, Botetourt County has a complete administrative staff that works under the direction of a County Administrator who is hired by the Board of Supervisors to run day-to-day operations.

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