Uniti Wholesale expands fiber network in Mississippi, Alabama, Oklahoma

Uniti Wholesale announced infrastructure expansions and new customer agreements across three southeastern markets, according to a company press release.

The company, a unit of Uniti (NASDAQ: UNIT), secured new metro dark fiber agreements in Jackson, Mississippi representing 4,313 contracted fiber miles. The agreements include an expanded contract from a hyperscale provider and a new contract with a neo-cloud provider.

In Birmingham, Alabama, Uniti initiated construction of a new 69-route-mile metro network featuring high-count fiber and multiple conduits. The project expands the company's Alabama network alongside existing builds in Huntsville and Montgomery.

The company secured a new 50-rack colocation agreement in Tulsa, Oklahoma, supporting its previously announced ultra-high-capacity routes connecting Tulsa to Dallas and Amarillo. Uniti is building a metro-ring between its long-haul points of presence to enhance connectivity.

"We build where we live, and that creates a different level of commitment," said Greg Ortyl, executive vice president and president of Strategic Accounts at Uniti Wholesale. "We don't just build infrastructure and move on — we design, build, operate, and maintain these networks ourselves."

The developments follow Uniti Wholesale's recent 20-year, $500 million customer contract and its strategic expansion of 1,100 route miles of ultra-high-capacity fiber across the South-Central United States.

Uniti Wholesale operates as an owner-operator model, building and maintaining the fiber infrastructure it deploys rather than focusing solely on construction. The company provides dark fiber infrastructure and high-capacity services to hyperscale providers, communications companies, enterprises and government customers in the United States and Canada.

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