Alexandria Residents to Get More Fiber Internet Options - Alexandria Living Magazine

City of Alexandria residents utilized to person 1 main enactment erstwhile it came to Internet service: Comcast.

In caller years, Verizon has started offering its Fios work successful prime areas — and now, much companies are readying to connection fibre optics Internet work to residents. 

Earlier this year, a company called Tucows started to bring its Ting Internet work to Alexandria. The institution volition beryllium capable to supply work to "tens of thousands" of locations successful the city, according to a study by Fierce Telecom. "The deployment volition tee it up to situation incumbent cablegram supplier Comcast arsenic good arsenic Verizon Fios, which is successful the process of upgrading its copper lines successful the country to fiber," the website reported. (Ting is not serving residents yet, but homeowners tin motion up for much accusation connected their website.)

Tonight, metropolis of  Alexandria assembly members are considering an statement to let Crown Castle Fiber to commencement operation connected a strategy that volition could different companies to serve Alexandria residents. Crown Castle Fiber is simply a web plan and infrastructure institution that constructs Internet connectivity capabilities for municipalities. Construction sites Crown Castle Fiber is requesting see Potomac Yard and the West End, including the Landmark neighborhood.

Last year, city officials broke crushed connected a new municipal fiber-optic communications network to summation Internet velocity and reliability to metropolis facilities. 

"In summation to improving connectivity among City facilities and sites, the Municipal Fiber task volition make imaginable concern opportunities to grow user prime and summation disposable speeds for broadband services disposable successful Alexandria," metropolis officials explained past year. "With the operation of the caller fibre optic network, the City is readying to question caller partners who could lease excess conduit abstraction to supply broadband work to residents and businesses. This would let each providers to vie reasonably and would promote providers to connection user services."