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Yas Madagascar’s $100 Million Bet Came Before the New Name
Before Telma became Yas, it committed $100 million to a mobile network expansion and brought commercial 5G to Madagascar. The next test is getting that infrastructure to earn its place in everyday life.
BTC Broadband has a plan for the next severed cable
The Bixby telephone company grew into a fiber, voice and managed IT provider. Its next test is keeping Oklahoma customers connected when something goes wrong.
Claro Argentina’s $350 million ticket to 5G
The airwaves were only the entrance fee. From crowded rooftops to a new Buenos Aires data center, Claro’s next chapter is being built one physical constraint at a time.
Point Broadband’s big bet on small-town internet
A $725.1 million debt deal and a merger with Clearwave Fiber have given Point Broadband room to grow. In Foley, Alabama, the work came down to new fiber, old cable boxes and teaching people to stream.
Optimum built faster internet. Now it has to make customers stay.
Fiber is growing. Mobile is growing. The broadband base is shrinking. Inside Optimum’s effort to turn a better network into a business customers keep.
The Texas Tech Company That Put 130 Customers on One Radio - and Made Rural Broadband Pencil Out
VGI spent years working around the limits of rural wireless. Then a skeptical pilot hit 600 Mbps, one water-tower radio carried more than 130 customers, and a granite-bound Texas community finally got a credible alternative to slow broadband.
AT&T Spent $134 Billion Chasing Hollywood. Its Comeback Runs Through Boring, Beautiful Fiber
The telecom giant’s costly media adventure ended in retreat. Now AT&T is making a simpler wager: own the pipes, bundle the connections, and make reliability interesting again.
The Mississippi Telco That Ran Google's Fiber Playbook - And Kept the Whole State
How a Gulf Coast cellular start-up became the biggest privately held wireless carrier in America - by making towns compete to get fiber first, then wiring the rest of the state anyway.
Clear Rate’s Bet: The Best Telecom Upgrade Is One Human Who Answers
For 25 years, the Michigan provider has sold a gloriously unsexy idea: one bill, one number to call, and fewer vendors to blame. Its opportunity is the mess between national carriers - and its risk is whether local service can stay personal as the platform grows.
The Co-op That Wired the Backroads Before Big Telecom Bothered to Look
For seventy-plus years a member-owned co-op in Abbeville has been laying fiber down roads the big carriers ignored. When Hurricane Helene knocked the region offline, its offices became the place people went to charge a phone and find a signal.
The Internet Company Digging Its Way Out of Cable's Past
Ziply Fiber inherited an old Northwest telephone network and made a blunt bet: keep digging until fiber reaches the places larger providers skipped. Now the same company selling home broadband is carrying 400-gigabit traffic between Seattle and Chicago.
Sail Internet
Sail Internet is a Santa Clara-based internet service provider that uses a hybrid of fiber and fixed-wireless technology to deliver high-speed, no-contract broadband to homes and businesses across the San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley. Founded in 2015 by Stanford-trained broadband engineers, the company positions itself as a customer-first, net-neutral alternative to incumbent cable and telecom giants, reaching residences, multi-dwelling communities, and enterprises with gigabit-class connectivity that skips costly trench-and-dig infrastructure.
Sonic
Sonic is the largest independently owned internet service provider in California, founded in 1994 in Santa Rosa. It builds and runs its own fiber-optic network, selling fast, flat-priced gigabit and 10-gigabit home and business internet with no contracts, no data caps, and a privacy stance that has earned it a perfect score from the Electronic Frontier Foundation. After more than 30 years serving the San Francisco Bay Area, Sonic began its first out-of-region expansion in 2026, lighting up fiber in Los Angeles and Dallas.
Vianet Communication
Vianet Communication is one of Nepal's leading internet and TV service providers. Founded in 1999, it pioneered fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) internet in the country in 2011 and launched one of Nepal's first IPTV services in 2016. Headquartered in Lalitpur, the company serves roughly 260,000 fiber customers across 24 cities, holds about 10% national market share as the third-largest ISP, and in 2023 launched Nepal's first 2 Gbps XGS-PON multi-gig internet service.
Verizon
Verizon Communications is one of the largest telecommunications carriers in the United States, delivering wireless service, fiber and broadband internet, and managed enterprise networking to consumers, businesses, and government. Formed in 2000 from the merger of Bell Atlantic and GTE, the company runs one of the country's most extensive 5G and fiber-optic networks and reported roughly $138 billion in revenue in 2025.