Kirkland, Washington (April 5, 2024) – Ziply® Fiber, home to America’s Fastest Home Internet, today announced that it has begun construction of a new, ultra-high-speed, 100-percent fiber-optic network in Baker City, Oregon, which will serve more than 2,500 homes and businesses across the city when network construction is complete. Fiber internet – with speeds ranging from 100 Mbps to America’s fastest home internet at 50 Gig – is now ready for service to the first 300 of those addresses in Baker City today, with the remaining addresses coming online in the next several weeks.
This launch means that besides Baker City now having the fastest household internet speeds in the nation, customers at every speed tier can be confident they’re on the best and fastest network available, giving them great speed and reliable service for everything they want to do online today and into the future.
Residents and business owners can check for fiber availability at Ziplyfiber.com and sign up to be alerted when service is available at their location. Residential customers can switch to fiber internet for as little as $20 per month and receive a $50 bill credit for themselves and any friend they refer. Details can be found at referafriend.ziplyfiber.com.
“Baker City is often referred to as the basecamp of Eastern Oregon. Today, with access to Ziply Fiber’s new fiber network it’s also the basecamp to the online world,” said Harold Zeitz, CEO of Ziply Fiber. “We are very excited to extend reliable, high speed, fiber internet to this community, recognizing the pivotal role it will play in enhancing the lives of residents and businesses for generations to come. With this expansion, we’re committed to ensuring Baker City continues to be at the forefront of connectivity innovation.”
What to Expect During Ziply Fiber Construction
Baker City residents can learn more about the work Ziply Fiber is doing and what to expect during construction at ziplyfiber.com/fiber-construction/construction-process. Ziply Fiber’s goal is always to leave an area in a condition as good if not better than it was before construction. If residents notice something has been missed the company wants to know about it and asks that details be shared at ziplyfiber.com/new-fiber-locations/construction-process/construction-feedback.
The Many Benefits of Fiber Internet
Fiber internet, unlike other options like cable or satellite, provides the bandwidth and capacity to keep entire families streaming without interruption. Fiber provides symmetrical upload and download speeds and lower latency to easily power video conferencing and online gaming without lag and delivers the reliability to empower residents and businesses for decades.
Ziply Fiber offers many different service options for residents, including:
The entry level Fiber 100/100 plan, which provides all the reliability of fiber at great value for just $20/month.
Ziply Fiber Investing in Baker City, Oregon
The work in Baker City is part of Ziply Fiber’s commitment to invest hundreds of millions of dollars to build an advanced, 100-percent fiber network to both suburban and rural communities across the Northwest that have been underserved when it comes to internet access. The company believes that everyone should benefit from amazingly fast, game-changing internet, not just people in big cities. Ziply Fiber has been actively building fiber across the Northwest since June 2020 and continues to build and deploy new fiber-optic cables, local hubs, new offices, and new hardware to run the network as part of hundreds of projects across its 250,000-square-mile footprint. That’s how the company will deliver what its customers need and deserve as they learn, work, play and move into the future with ease.
Ziply Fiber’s primary service offerings are Fiber Internet and phone for residential customers, Business Fiber Internet and Ziply Voice services for small businesses, and a variety of Internet, networking, and voice solutions for enterprise customers. The company also continues to support Ziply Internet (DSL) customers, and its TV customers in Washington and Oregon. A full listing of products and services can be found at ziplyfiber.com.
About Ziply Fiber
Ziply Fiber is local in the Northwest, headquartered in Kirkland, Washington, and has major offices in Everett, Washington; Beaverton, Oregon; and Hayden, Idaho. Most of Ziply Fiber’s executive team, which consists of former executives from AT&T, CenturyLink, and Wave Broadband, either grew up in the Northwest or have spent the better part of 30 years living here. That local ownership and market familiarity is an important part of the company mindset and culture.