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.
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.