Metro Bytes: Bluebird, Boldyn, Comcast Business, Xantaro, Freedom Fibre, Qwilt

Five bits of last mile and middle mile news from the US and beyond over the last few days:

Bluebird Fiber has lined up a new partner out in Missouri in the utility space. Cuivre River Electric will be leveraging Bluebird’s fiber network as well as SIP voice service to power its critical utility operations. Cuive River Electric is a cooperative serving 70,000 members in Lincoln, Montgomery, Pike, St. Charles, and Warren Counties, which is the region west and north of St. Louis.

Boldyn Networks has been busy out in California. They have completed a segment of the Calfornia Middle-Mile Broadband Initiative, extending into Okaland and the Bay Area. Boldyn is using its rights-of-way along the Bary Area Rapid Transit lines to build out a 220-mile fiber ring, of which 80 miles will be ready by the end of June. They expect to add over 100 fiber access points around the Bay Area.

Comcast Business picked up a bit of SMB business in central Virginia. They have hooked up multiple Joe Bean’s Express Expresso shops in Lynchburg and Altavista. The deal follows Comcast’s expansion to 12K new homes and businesses in the area. Jo Bean’s is leveraging both business internet and business mobile lines.

Xantaro says it will be helping Freedom Fibre with its rollout in Shropshire over in the UK. The deal will see Xantaro’s cabinet-as-a-service solution as well as technology from Nokia put in place across underserved parts of Shropshire as part of a Project Gigabit initiative. Shropshire is a county in the West Midlands, west of Birmingham on the Welsh border.

And Qwilt says it has passed a key milestone. Their edge cloud infrastructure has pushed past 2000 edge nodea across, now touching 2196 endpoints in 38 countries on six continents. Qwilt says it now has more than 150Tbps of capacity within the service provider access network, leveraging 200 partnerships across their ecosystem.

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