For the fourth straight year, AT&T ruled the roost for on-net fiber lit buildings in the U.S., according to research by Vertical Systems Group. Rounding out the top five on Vertical System Group’s Leaderboard, were, in order, Verizon, Spectrum Enterprise, CenturyLink and Comcast.
Cox, Crown Castle Fiber, Frontier, Zayo, Altice USA, Atlantic Broadband, Windstream and Consolidated Communications followed Comcast on the Leaderboard. In total, 13 retail and wholesale fiber providers made the top tier of the Leaderboard.
Atlantic Broadband, which was ranked 11th, and Consolidated Communications (13th) attained their Leaderboard rankings for the first time while Windstream slid from 11th to 12th.
