Brightspeed hits one-year anniversary with fiber live in 13 states

One year has passed since Brightspeed became the fifth largest incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC) in the US, and it’s made some notable progress in its $2 billion multi-year fiber deployment. Most of Brightspeed’s footprint is currently served with copper, but the operator is undertaking fiber builds in 17 states and officially launched fiber service on March 1, 2023. Brightspeed’s fiber internet is “already open for sale” in parts of the following 13 states: Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Louisiana, Missouri, North Carolina, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and Wisconsin. In addition to those states, Brightspeed is “actively deploying” fiber in Illinois, Kansas, Michigan and South Carolina.