For the third year in a row, it's AT&T, reports ChannelPartnersOnline.com, with
Crown Castle climbing the charts at number seven. While there has been
some jockeying from year-to-year, the top contenders remain, in order:
AT&T, Verizon, Spectrum Enterprise, CenturyLink, Comcast, Cox, Crown
Castle Fiber, Frontier, Zayo, and Altice USA. To make the list, the
fiber providers had to wrap up the previous year with at least 10,000
fiber-lit buildings in the United States.
The challenge defined "fiber-lit" as "a commercial site or data center
that has on-net optical fiber connectivity to a network provider’s
infrastructure, plus active service termination equipment onsite.” The
definition did not include cell towers, small cell arrangement, private
installations, and other alternatives.
VSG Principal, Rosemary Cochran, stated: "Following a flurry of mergers
and acquisitions, fiber providers focused on new build-outs in 2018, to
meet customer demand for higher-speed dedicated access to business
services and to support 5G pilots.” She added that the wealth of
buildings that are not yet fiber-lit represents a true opportunity for
providers to step in and offer their services.
Additionally, 13 companies qualified for recognition with 2,000-9,999
U.S. fiber lit commercial buildings. They include: Atlantic Broadband,
Cincinnati Bell, Cleareon, Cogent, Consolidated Communications,
FiberLight, FirstLight, GTT, IFN, Logix Fiber Networks, Segra, Unite
Private Networks and Uniti Fiber. Comments? Email Us.
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