Fidium Fiber makes 2-Gbps fiber service available to 12,000 homes in Southern Vermont

A new fiber network, the result of a partnership between Southern Vermont Communication Union District (CUD) and Fidium Fiber parent Consolidated Communications, is ready to deliver Fidium Fiber’s 2-Gbps fiber service to 12,000 homes in Bennington County. The service, which also includes WiFi, will be available to 400 homes that previously had no high-speed Internet access as part of this deployment (see "Fidium Fiber announces FTTP deployments in Vermont").

The CUD represents 14 rural towns in Bennington County and advocates for making high-speed connectivity available to hard-to-connect regions, successfully securing state funding for broadband projects. Fidium is using the new fiber network to provide rural residences with better, more reliable services, such as meshed home WiFi, voice-over-IP home phone services, and streaming television. These services are available to order.

“I’m really excited for folks in Bennington County to experience Fidium Fiber Internet,” says Erik Garr, president of consumer and small business at Consolidated Communications. “It illustrates the power of partnership between providers and CUDs. Working together, we can do incredible things for our communities.”

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