Ziply Fiber Announces Fiber Expansion into 14 Additional Markets

Ziply Fiber is bringing gigabit-speed fiber Internet service to 14 additional markets across Washington and Oregon. This latest expansion, which includes both suburban and rural towns, is in addition to the 22 new market builds announced in Spring 2021. This brings the total number of fiber expansion markets since Ziply acquired the Northwest operations of Frontier Communications in 2020 to 52. The company’s entire expansion effort is part of its $500 million multi-year investment to improve its network and service in both urban and rural settings throughout its four-state service area and to help bridge the digital divide that many of these communities have felt for years. The new expansion includes five cities in Washington and nine in Oregon, and will represent more than 38,000 new fiber-ready addresses once construction is complete. While it will take time to upgrade 250,000 square miles of land throughout Ziply Fiber’s service area with new fiber-optic cables, local hubs, new offices, and new hardware to run the network, the company is capitalized for and committed to expanding fiber to cover more than 80 percent of its territory in the next three years.