Home internet provider Ziply Fiber announced an expansion throughout major cities in Montana, including both Billings and Great Falls. The new, ultra-high-speed, 100 percent fiber-optic networks will service thousands of residential and business customers. Installations are underway in Billings and will begin in Great Falls later this week.
The installations are the first two of at least five in the state with brand new, state-of-the-art, Ziply fiber infrastructure being built. It previously only offered service in the communities of Libby and Troy.
Upon completion, Ziply Fiber’s new network will serve nearly 19,000 homes and businesses in Billings and nearly 10,000 addresses in Great Fallsj, with network expansion efforts in Missoula, Helena and Butte as well. The company expects to launch those markets – with an additional 26,000 addresses – in the next few months.
Residential customers in all fiber markets can access speeds ranging from 100 Mbps to 50 Gig. All Ziply Fiber plans offer symmetrical download/upload speeds, and the company’s entry-level Fiber 100 plan exceeds the minimum residential broadband speed required by the FCC, with no contracts or data caps.
This means, Ziply claims, that Billings and Great Falls have 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.
Customers 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 new customer they refer. Details can be found at referafriend.ziplyfiber.com.
“Expansion in Montana has been a long time coming and I’m so thankful that the day is finally here,” said Harold Zeitz, CEO of Ziply Fiber. “I can’t tell you the number of people and business owners who have reached out to us asking when we’re coming and telling us stories of the limited options they have and what fast, reliable fiber will mean to them. Today we help fulfill that wish.”
Great Falls and Billings 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 here.
Fiber internet, unlike other options such as cable or satellite, provides the bandwidth and capacity to keep families streaming without interruption. Fiber provides symmetrical upload and download speeds and lower latency to power video conferencing and online gaming without lag, delivering 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 the reliability of fiber for just $20/month.
- Residential plans come with no data caps and no annual contracts.
- Discounted pricing for telephone and qualified internet services to eligible, low-income and Tribal households through the federal Lifeline program, Enhanced Tribal Benefit and Tribal Link Up assistance. To learn more, please visit ziplyfiber.com/internet/community-discounts.
The work in Billings and Great Falls is part of Ziply Fiber’s commitment to invest hundreds of millions of dollars to build an advanced, 100 percent fiber network for suburban and rural communities across the Northwest that have been underserved in internet access. 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 hardware to run the network as part of hundreds of projects across its 250,000-square-mile footprint.
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 customers, and its TV customers in Washington and Oregon. A full listing of products and services can be found at ziplyfiber.com.
To become a Ziply Fiber agent, click here.
