Windstream Offers Free Upgrades to Kinetic Fiber

Windstream is offering free upgrades to its Kinetic fiber broadband service to 33,000 customers currently served by slower speed DSL infrastructure. The company is calling the initiative “Project Glass Echo.” Eligible DSL customers can get speeds of 300Mbps at no extra charge on their monthly bills, regardless of what speed they were previously receiving, said Ben Midanek, Windstream’s chief marketing officer for Kinetic. There are eligible customers throughout Windstream’s 18-state footprint. Two thirds of nearly 20,000 customers in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Kentucky, and Texas are eligible for the upgrade. What makes Windstream’s upgrades challenging is that customers must be moved onto the company’s fiber broadband infrastructure to get the faster speeds.