On this page, I collect and store information about lit buildings and metro fiber providers primarily based in the US (I’d do other countries if the information were as easily found). To be on this list, a company must as part of their business hook up buildings or wireless towers to metro fiber rings and either sell services directly to companies in those buildings or sell dark fiber to those that do, and usually in competition with the local ILEC. With no further ado:
There are obviously different business models, geographies, and who knows what. Therefore, this list is not meant to be a race, in fact few of these companies compete against each other and all compete against the ILEC primarily. It is just a list showing the general sense of the industry and where each company might fit in it. This information is updated, but infrequently – probably quarterly. If you see a company or information that ought to be here or just have a suggestion as to how to improve this page, send me an email at info@telecomramblings.com.
I reverted this list to alphabetical order, I’ll sort it various ways when I use the data in posts.
Updated data for Abovenet and for the Long Island Fiber Exchange
Rob,
I am not sure how often you update this list. We have surpassed the 1000 building milestone – 1006 and counting. We are adding about 15 new commercial buildings in the Tulsa area each month.
Heh, not nearly as often as you guys update yours apparently.
Normal updates will be quarterly, when the few public companies on the list generally update their numbers. Other updates will be piecemeal – i.e. when I happen across the information or when someone sends it to me. Hence, I’ve bumped EasyTel to 1006 today.
Thanks Ben.
Ben,
Of your 1006 buildings, how many are single tenant and less than 5,000 sqft?
I see some of the buildings you have lit, and lets be honest here a single tenant 500 sqft office is not really a building is it!?!?
I don’t mind sharing all the facts since it is just something we are proud of. Here is the breakdown. There are 337 high rise / common demarc buildings. There are 233 multi tenant / strip center office – retail buildings that each require their own fiber point. Then we have 437 stand alone buildings that are larger businesses that have a telecom budget worthy of building fiber to them. Car Dealers, Hotels, Churches, Restaurants, Big Retail. Really, any decent commercial property in Tulsa is on the radar. If you go to maps.live.com and put the address in you can get a nice picture view of each building. We certainly don’t have single tenant buildings less than 5000 square feet unless the owner paid us some bucks to bring the fiber in. Each building indeed is a real building and yes, it was expensive to build!
I don’t have insight to the other private companies on the list, but I can assure you that Lightower’s lit buildings are “lit”. Density is the key here.
thanks a ton …this is really cool…is there any way of getting to how much backbone fiber players have? esp with qwest, sprint and lvlt in quasi play….
Rob, the story behind the Wilshire Connection (WilCon) of L.A. is interesting. It mirrors some other emergent players on your metro list. You may want to keep an eye on this outfit for future inclusion on the list. Yesterday I posted links to a four-part series of interviews with WilCon’s founder and CEO Eric Bender, here:
http://siliconinvestor.advfn.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=26085246
nb, a podcast link to the complete interview series is available at the bottom of each page cited.
Frank
Rob: Any idea if carriers are counting towers as buildings?
Most do, I know Zayo does. And I do as well. Basically any revenue generating, non-residential structure that is on-net and produces traffic counts for this particular list. I wish I could break it down by tower, enterprise buildings of different classes, carrier hotels, etc – but I’d never get that kind of data from enough places.
Thanks Rob, for the taking the time to put this information together. It’s nice to have it available at a glance. I wanted to mention, on behalf of FiberLight, that we also have metro networks in Nashville, Birmingham, Virginia and Maryland.
EasyTEL continues to grow its Metro Fiber Network in Tulsa metro area. We take care of commercial customers only. Of the 1155 “lit” buildings here is our breakdown based on class of building. Large Multi Tenant – 375…. Business Strip Center that each tenant has its own Optical Network Terminal – 269…. Single Occupant Businesses like Hotels, Churches, Large Retail, Industrial – 513. We continue to sweep the business sector by offering superior broadband solutions over the incumbent LEC and Cable Company.