i3 Broadband Announces the Purchase of Southeast Missouri’s Big River Broadband/Circle Fiber

i3 Broadband, a Midwest fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) provider, is acquiring Big River Broadband, primarily a commercial communications company, and its wholly owned subsidiary Circle Fiber, a fiber-optic internet provider serving southeast Missouri communities. The combined companies allow i3 Broadband to further expand its ultra-high-speed fiber-optic footprint to residential and commercial customers across central Illinois and eastern Missouri. i3 Broadband is expected to invest an additional $100 million to grow the southeast Missouri market and provide next-generation broadband services to additional communities. Big River Broadband/Circle Fiber currently serves customers in Cape Girardeau, Perry, St. Genevieve, St. Francois, Butler, Washington, Bollinger, and Scott counties in Missouri. The acquisition allows i3 Broadband, based in Peoria (IL), to leverage Big River Broadband/Circle Fiber’s fiber-optic infrastructure gigabit speed upgrades in these markets as part of the company’s rapidly expanding footprint in the region. Existing Big River Broadband/Circle Fiber customers with fiber infrastructure will continue to benefit from gigabit internet speed options with no data caps, full-featured fiber phone service, and fiber IPTV as i3 Broadband looks to expand those offerings in new neighborhoods in the near future.