Fiber-based services provider FirstLight says it plans to add more than 1,000 route miles to its fiber-optic network in eastern Pennsylvania. The new fiber will run through Allentown, Harrisburg, Lancaster, Scranton, Reading, and Wilkes-Barre.
The company’s recently acquired Construction Services team (see "FirstLight Fiber focuses on new fiber installs with Todd Cable Construction acquisition") alongside Pennsylvania-based outside plant distributor Comstar Supply Inc. will lead the deployment project. FirstLight says the expansion will support increased demand for its business services as well as the requirements of a specific customer.
"At FirstLight, we pride ourselves on providing our growing customer base with high performance, reliable, fiber-based services delivered over our low latency fiber optic network," stated Kurt Van Wagenen, president and CEO of FirstLight. "Our expansion into eastern Pennsylvania is designed to not only support a wireless carrier's roll out of 5G, but will also provide organizations in industries such as education, healthcare, finance, government, manufacturing, and more with access to the superior connectivity solutions that they require to succeed in today's digital world."
FirstLight operates in the U.S. Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, thanks to a footprint that includes connections to more than 9,000 locations in service with more than 30,000 locations serviceable via the company’s greater than 20,000-route-mile fiber network. Its service portfolio covers including internet access, Ethernet, wavelength, dark fiber, cloud and data center connectivity, cloud computing, unified communications and Cisco-based collaboration and network offerings.
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