Charlottesville (VA) is about to get ‘Google Fiber lite’ thanks to this small wireless carrier

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Ting Mobile -- a small, Canadian-owned wireless carrier based in Mississippi -- said it was buying up an Internet service provider in Charlottesville (VA), home to the University of Virginia. The acquisition of Blue Ridge InternetWorks will kickstart new investments by Ting into the town's local fiber optic network, enabling new fixed broadband plans costing less than $100 a month for speeds roughly 100 times the current national average, or 1 gigabit per second. The plan to expand Charlottesville's existing 35 miles of fiber cabling reflects the growing interest in high-speed fiber nationwide that doesn't necessarily come from established communications companies like Verizon.


Charlottesville (VA) is about to get ‘Google Fiber lite’ thanks to this small wireless carrier