Lumos Networks Launches GIGABIT FAST Fiber Broadband Across the Entire Virginia RLEC Footprint

Lumos Networks today announced it has launched the first one gigabit broadband service in Virginia's rural local exchange carrier marketplace with up to one gigabit internet speeds for residential and commercial customers

Lumos Networks Corp., a fiber-based service provider of data, voice and IP-based telecommunication services in the Mid-Atlantic region, is proud to announce the launch ofGIGABIT FAST across the Company’s entire RLEC fiber to the premise footprint. GIGABIT FAST is the 1 gigabit broadband service with internet speeds up to 1,000 megabits per second and is available to residential and small business customers.

Lumos initially rolled out Gigabit internet speeds to customers in the Alleghany Highlands region in the summer of 2015, followed by customers in Botetourt County in January of 2016. This latest deployment now expands gigabit availability to nearly 20,000 premises with the launching of the Waynesboro/Augusta County market and development properties located in the Lynchburg area, one of its edge-out RLEC Broadband markets.

“I am very proud of the fact that not only is Lumos Networks the first service provider of any kind to offer 1 Gigabit internet speeds in our RLEC markets, it is also the first to offer Gigabit internet speeds across its entire RLEC footprint,” said Diego Anderson, Senior Vice President and General Manager of the residential and small business segment for Lumos Networks.

“We offer the fastest Internet broadband service in our region,” continued Mr. Anderson, “and this announcement only furthers our leading position in this region as customers increasingly migrate to higher broadband applications.” 

  Mr. Anderson said, “We continue to observe a growing demand for higher speeds to reliably access various data and over the top video content from customers who are using more internet enabled devices than ever before. This gigabit product delivers superior internet speeds to accommodate these evolving bandwidth intensive applications with the fastest speeds and reliability via a fiber infrastructure. We are committed in continuing to better serve our customers and local communities”. 

Source: BusinessWire