{"id":178453,"date":"2024-04-25T03:44:25","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T08:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=178453"},"modified":"2024-04-25T03:44:26","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T08:44:26","slug":"merger-translates-to-another-isp-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2024\/04\/25\/merger-translates-to-another-isp-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"Merger translates to another ISP choice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong><em>independent editor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A corporate merger means Van Wert residents will have another choice when choosing an internet service provider.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During Monday\u2019s meeting of Van Wert City Council, Safety-Service Director Jay Fleming informed council members that CenturyLink and Brightspeed have merged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThey have announced to me that they are going to re-wire the entire city in fiber (optics),\u201d Fleming said. \u201cIt\u2019s going to begin in June and July and they hope to have it complete in three months. What that\u2019s going to mean is all the fiber is going to be on the poles if you make application for their service, like you might do with Spectrum now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhat I\u2019m excited about is it\u2019s competition, so you\u2019ll be able to make that connection with Brightspeed if you apply for their service, then they\u2019ll bring true fiber right to door,\u201d he added. \u201cSpectrum has pretty good speeds but they don\u2019t necessarily have true fiber to the home.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brightspeed has set aside $2 billion to bring fiber optic internet to at least three million customers across 20 states over the next four years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent editor A corporate merger means Van Wert residents will have another choice when choosing an internet service provider. During Monday\u2019s meeting of Van Wert City Council, Safety-Service Director Jay Fleming informed council members that CenturyLink and Brightspeed have merged. \u201cThey have announced to me that they are going to re-wire the entire city [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-31 19:10:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178454,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178453\/revisions\/178454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}