Consolidated Communications is acquiring Champaign-Urbana, Ill., area Champaign Telephone Company (CTC) and its sister company, Big Broadband Services, a private business communications provider, for $13 million, deepening its fiber and on-net fiber building reach.
By making this deal, Consolidated will add 275 fiber route miles and 310 lit buildings to its existing fiber network which extends to Champaign, Ill., a community that’s only 50 miles north of its Mattoon, Ill., headquarters.