Kirkland, Washington (May 6, 2024) – Ziply® Fiber, home to America’s Fastest Home Internet, today announced that its new, ultra-high-speed, 100-percent fiber-optic network is ready for service in Spirit Lake, Idaho. The network, which is available today to more than 1,000 addresses and offers speeds ranging from 100 Mbps to America’s fastest home internet at 50 Gig, will serve nearly 1,200 homes and businesses across the town when construction is complete in the coming weeks.
Today’s launch means that besides Spirit Lake now having access to 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. With household data usage across the U.S. expected to double every year, Ziply Fiber’s advanced network gives customers the great speed and reliable service they need 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. When fiber is shown as available at their address, Ziply’s existing DSL customers can upgrade by calling 1-866-699-4759.
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.
“Spirit Lake is such a beautiful city, it’s easy to see why people choose to call it home. We’re thrilled to provide the community with the fastest and most reliable fiber internet that they have long deserved,” said Harold Zeitz, CEO of Ziply Fiber. “Ziply Fiber has always believed that you don’t have to live in a big city to have great internet and today’s launch is another step closer in our mission of connecting communities that have been underserved when it comes to internet access across the Northwest.”
What to Expect During Ziply Fiber Construction
Spirit Lake 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:
Ziply Fiber Investing in Spirit Lake, Idaho
The work in Spirit Lake 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.