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DAY 2 THE INCOMPAS SHOW
WOW! Wholesale to Invest Near-Net Fiber Strategy in 18 Markets
WOW! Wholesale, a division of WOW! Busi-
ness, announced will invest in and aggres-
sively pursue a near-net fiber strategy to
provide broadband access to more commercial build-
ings in 18 Midwest and Southeast markets.
Establishing fiber-based network points-of-pres-
ence in hundreds of commercial buildings near
its own metro Ethernet networks enables WOW!
Wholesale to expand the addressable market
for its service provider customers, along with
increasing new business opportunities through
WOW! Business direct and indirect sales channels.
In the process, the company expects to
leverage its local fiber assets by driving more
broadband traffic onto its metro Ethernet networks.
“By lighting more buildings near our own local
fiber networks and revamping our pricing struc-
ture to make it more attractive and disruptive for
wholesale and retail customers, we expect to
significantly expand our metro Ethernet access
business,” said Jim Greene, director, WOW!
Wholesale. “As we establish fiber-based network
points-of-presence in hundreds of commercial
buildings in these 18 markets, high-speed dedi-
cated Internet access, voice, data and cloud
services will become available to the tenants
located in those buildings.”
WOW! Wholesale already has begun to imple-
ment its near-net fiber strategy by extending its
fiber network to a number of buildings near Wacker
Drive in the downtown Chicago central business
district and 17 other cities in the markets it serves.
The cities targeted in the company’s near-net
fiber strategy includes: Auburn, Dothan, Huntsville,
Montgomery and Valley, Ala.; Panama City and
St. Petersburg, Fla.; Augusta, Columbus and Fort
Gordon, Ga.; Charleston, S.C.; Chicago; Evans-
ville, Ind.; Detroit and Lansing, Mich.; Cleveland
and Columbus, Ohio; and Knoxville, Tenn.
WOW! Business provides IP-based network,
data, voice and cloud services for small and
medium-sized business (SMB), enterprise,
government and wholesale customers. o
For more information about WOW! Wholesale
services please visit
are looking to work. We feel our facility will take
them to the next level.”
Thermo Credit’s lending partner, Thermo
Communications LLC funded the facility.
Integrity is a general engineering contractor
that provides underground utility services to the
utility industry, ranging from long-line conduit
installations for power and fiber to underground
structure installations.
The company has a management team with
more than 100 years of combined experience in
the industry and it supports a geographic market
from Los Angeles to the Mexican border to the
south and Arizona to the east. Integrity is a union
contractor and a certified Woman Owned Minority
Enterprise through the PUC of California.
A privately held funding company that provides
asset-based loans, accounts receivable financing
and factoring services, Thermo Credit specializes
in the communications and technology industries.
It serves established, well-run companies that
need capital to expand their business, improve
operations or fund an acquisition. o
For more information, visit booth 323 in
the Expo Hall, go to or
contact Seth Block at 504-620-3101.
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