Ziply Fiber To Keep Prices Low Even After Foreign Acquisition

Ziply Fiber bought up Frontier’s Northwest fiber network in 2020 and immediately made half a billion dollars worth of immediate network improvements and upgrades. Since then, it has acquired a handful of smaller internet providers and grown its original fiber network to pass more than 1.3 million addresses. The company plans to reach a total 3 million addresses with fiber in the next four years, according to a press release from the company.

If the Bell Canada deal goes through, Ziply Fiber could expand even faster and bring fiber to more communities than originally planned, Ziply Fiber Senior Vice President Dan Miller told the local newspaper.

In addition to its residential fiber internet network, Ziply Fiber serves business and enterprise customers throughout the region. It also owns the Northern Link Route, a 400 gig long-haul transport route that connects Portland, Seattle, Spokane, Missoula, Billings, Minneapolis, Chicago, and several cities in between.

The fiber route is a fast, low-latency way for internet traffic to get from Asia to Chicago by way of Seattle, and it’s entirely underground. Before the line was built, that traffic went through Canadian fiber lines.