FiberNet Expands, Offers Fiber-to-Business Broadband: ; Company Overbuilt Capacity to Keep Ahead...

Posted on: Friday, 18 July 2008, 00:00 CDT By GEORGE HOHMANN FiberNet, the feisty telecommunications upstart, has embarked on perhaps its biggest growth spurt yet. The company, formed just 12 years ago, has invested $100 million in the state and now has about 3,000 route miles of fiber, 100,000 customer lines and 250 employees, said David Armentrout, FiberNet's chief operating officer. In a wide-ranging interview, Armentrout revealed that the company has expanded its offices on Greenbrier Street, is upgrading its equipment, and is offering fiber-to-the-business broadband service to companies in its service territory. FiberNet moved most of its corporate and administrative offices in 2005 from 209 Leon Sullivan Way to 1200 Greenbrier St., at the foot of the Yeager Airport hill. Earlier this year the company acquired and... [read full story]