As the Christmas season officially gets underway, several new broadband builds were recently announced: Verizon expands its Massachusetts Fios footprint and Ziply Fiber enhances its reach by acquiring iFIBER. 

As the Christmas season officially gets underway, several new broadband builds were recently announced: AT&T Crafts P3 with Delaware County, IND; Frontier Hits 5M Locations with Fiber Broadband.

Broadband build activity continues to ramp. In this week’s issue, we’re tracking Lumen’s Quantum Fiber effort to expand service into over 30 cities while Windstream’s Kinetic is set to bring 2 Gbps services to 46 more residential markets.

As we wrap up Halloween and head into November, several new broadband builds were announced this week: WOW! Further Extends Alabama Footprint; Comcast Announces Network Construction in Whatcom County, Washington; TDS breaks ground on fiber expansion in New London, Minn. – and others.

The Great Broadband Build is a new weekly online news feature Broadband Communities is developing to track the ongoing last mile and middle mile deployments across the U.S.