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Batelco wants more than your phone bill
Bahrain’s familiar telecom brand is tying family plans to a much bigger business in cables and data centres. The ambition runs from the living room to the seabed.
Superloop wants your broadband bill. Or a cut of someone else’s.
The Australian telco has turned fibre, acquisitions and other companies’ customers into an A$664 million business. Its most interesting product may be the machinery behind the brand on your bill.
Indonet knows the cloud needs a way home
Indonesia’s first commercial internet provider now connects the clouds, data centers and businesses behind the screen. Its next chapter runs through Jakarta’s streets, where a severed fiber can spoil the costly software.
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 Biggest Cable Company You Forgot Was Family-Owned
For 60 years Cox stayed private, poured billions into cable, and let louder rivals grab the headlines. Then it agreed to a $34.5 billion merger that puts its name on the country's largest broadband network.
Spectrum’s Big Bet: Make the Cable Bundle Useful Again
The cable bundle did not disappear. Spectrum is rebuilding it around broadband, WiFi, mobile and streaming - and betting that one connected household is worth more than four separate subscriptions.
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.
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.