Ziply® Fiber aggressively expanding in Montana, fiber installs begin this week across Billings and Great Falls with more markets to come
2024年6月18日 - 3:35AM
Ziply® Fiber, home to America’s Fastest Home Internet, today
announced a bold expansion throughout major cities in Montana,
including both Billings and Great Falls, which both have new,
ultra-high-speed, 100-percent fiber-optic networks ready for
service to thousands of residential and business customers today.
Installations are underway in Billings and will begin in Great
Falls later this week. These are the first two cities of at least
five in the state with brand new, state-of-the-art fiber
infrastructure being built by Ziply Fiber, which previously had
only offered service in the communities of Libby and Troy.
When construction is complete, Ziply Fiber’s new network will
serve nearly 19,000 homes and businesses in Billings and nearly
10,000 addresses in Great Falls. Ziply Fiber is hard at work on
network expansion efforts in Missoula, Helena and Butte, as well.
The company expects to launch those markets, with an additional
26,000 addresses, in the next few months.
Residential customers in all fiber markets can access speeds
ranging from 100 Mbps to 50 Gig (500 times faster and America’s
Fastest Home Internet). All Ziply Fiber plans offer symmetrical
download/upload speeds and the company’s entry-level Fiber 100 plan
exceeds the minimum residential broadband speed required by the
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) with no contracts or data
caps.
This means that as of today, both Billings and Great Falls now
have the fastest household internet speeds in the nation. Customers
at every speed tier can be confident they’re on the best and
fastest network available, giving them great speed and reliable
service for everything they want to do online today and into the
future.
Residents and business owners can check for fiber availability
at Ziplyfiber.com and sign up to be alerted when service is
available at their location. Residential customers can switch to
fiber internet for as little as $20 per month and receive a $50
bill credit for themselves and any new customer they refer. Details
can be found at referafriend.ziplyfiber.com.
“Expansion in Montana has been a long time coming and I’m so
thankful that the day is finally here,” said Harold Zeitz, CEO of
Ziply Fiber. “I can’t tell you the number of people and business
owners who have reached out to us asking when we’re coming and
telling us stories of the limited options they have and what fast,
reliable fiber will mean to them. Today we help fulfill that
wish.”
What to Expect During ConstructionGreat Falls and
Billings residents can learn more about the work Ziply Fiber is
doing and what to expect during construction at
ziplyfiber.com/fiber-construction/construction-process. Ziply
Fiber’s goal is always to leave an area in a condition as good
if not better than it was before construction. If
residents notice something has been missed the company wants
to know about it and asks that details be shared at
ziplyfiber.com/new-fiber-locations/construction-process/construction-feedback.
The Many Benefits of Fiber InternetFiber internet, unlike
other options like cable or satellite, provides the bandwidth and
capacity to keep entire families streaming without interruption.
Fiber provides symmetrical upload and download speeds and lower
latency to easily power video conferencing and online gaming
without lag and delivers the reliability to empower residents and
businesses for decades.
Ziply Fiber offers many different service options for residents,
including:
- The entry level
Fiber 100/100 plan, which provides all the reliability of fiber at
great value for just $20/month.
- All residential
plans come with no data caps and no annual contracts.
- Discounted pricing
for telephone and qualified internet services to eligible
low-income and Tribal households through the federal Lifeline
program, Enhanced Tribal Benefit, and Tribal Link Up assistance. To
learn more, please visit
ziplyfiber.com/internet/community-discounts.
Ziply Fiber Investing in Billings and Great Falls,
MontanaThe work in Billings and Great Falls is part of Ziply
Fiber’s commitment to invest hundreds of millions of dollars to
build an advanced, 100-percent fiber network to both suburban and
rural communities across the Northwest that have been underserved
when it comes to internet access. The company believes that
everyone should benefit from amazingly fast, game-changing
internet, not just people in big cities. Ziply Fiber has been
actively building fiber across the Northwest since June 2020 and
continues to build and deploy new fiber-optic cables, local hubs,
new offices, and new hardware to run the network as part of
hundreds of projects across its 250,000-square-mile footprint.
That’s how the company will deliver what its customers need and
deserve as they learn, work, play and move into the future with
ease.
Ziply Fiber’s primary service offerings are Fiber Internet and
phone for residential customers, Business Fiber Internet and Ziply
Voice services for small businesses, and a variety of Internet,
networking, and voice solutions for enterprise customers. The
company also continues to support Ziply Internet (DSL) customers,
and its TV customers in Washington and Oregon. A full listing of
products and services can be found at ziplyfiber.com.
About Ziply FiberZiply Fiber is local in the Northwest,
headquartered in Kirkland, Washington, and has major offices in
Everett, Washington; Beaverton, Oregon; and Hayden, Idaho. Most of
Ziply Fiber’s executive team, which consists of former executives
from AT&T, CenturyLink, and Wave Broadband, either grew up in
the Northwest or have spent the better part of 30 years living
here. That local ownership and market familiarity is an important
part of the company mindset and culture.
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Ryan Luckin
Ziply Fiber
206-661-5306
ryan.luckin@ziply.com