Brightspeed taps Verizon's wireless platform to serve copper subsBrightspeed taps Verizon's wireless platform to serve copper subs

Brightspeed has partnered with Verizon to launch fixed wireless voice and data services to Brightspeed's DSL customers. #pressrelease

January 22, 2025

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Brightspeed, an innovative telecommunications and internet service provider and the nation's third largest fiber broadband builder, announced the launch of a program offering its unique fixed wireless voice and data solution using Verizon's network for customers currently served by aging copper cables. This agreement with Verizon positions Brightspeed as a leader in the industry and moves the company closer to helping close the digital divide across its 20-state footprint.

Brightspeed is making a multi-billion-dollar investment in deploying its state-of-the-art fiber broadband network across its service areas in the South, Midwest and Mid-Atlantic regions of the U.S. to replace aging copper telecommunications infrastructure. However, the deployment of Brightspeed’s fiber network to more than four million homes and businesses will take time and can’t fully cover the nearly seven million locations across its footprint. Working with Verizon, this new fixed wireless voice and data solution offers customers a more immediate, reliable, high-speed connectivity option and can be deployed to homes and businesses that Brightspeed's planned fiber broadband network build may not reach.

Currently, some Brightspeed DSL customers in underserved or unserved areas are getting speeds well below what is needed to productively work, learn or stream online and are repeatedly dealing with service outages due to copper's lack of resiliency. Brightspeed's new fixed wireless voice and data solution using Verizon's network will provide customers with reliable connectivity. This new fixed wireless voice and data solution will upgrade services for some current Brightspeed DSL customers.

Read the full press release here.

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