The Divide: Ting CEO Elliot Noss on mid-market fiber and the 'last war' of broadband pricing

This episode features Elliot Noss, CEO of Ting. As a mid-market fiber provider, Ting is expanding in several communities across the US through strategic partnerships, such as a recently announced partnership with Blue Suede Networks in Memphis, Tennessee, through which Ting will serve as the anchor tenant ISP.

We discuss the logic behind that partnership and others, why Ting is more focused on closing the digital divide for low-income urban communities than in rural areas, and how the company is leveraging the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) to deliver free, gigabit broadband services. 

We also discuss how mid-market fiber providers like Ting and others are changing the ISP landscape. "We've always viewed ourselves as an ISP. You know, we don't really believe cable companies are ISPs at their core. We don't believe that phone companies are ISPs at their core," Noss said.

Here are some topics covered in this episode:

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