Nextlink

Nextlink Internet has acquired Echo Wireless, marking an expansion into Indiana. Echo Wireless has been providing Internet connections to rural communities in Knox, Davies, and Lawrence Counties (IN) since 2007. Echo employees will continue their employment with Nextlink, in Vincennes, and they will now help support other Nextlink customers across twelve states.

Nextlink is almost 2 years ahead of schedule in its Federal Communications Commission's Connect America Fund II (CAF II) broadband network construction. Nextlink was supposed to be 40% complete with its $281 million CAF II program construction but has in fact built 70% of its required locations across six states.