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Greenlight buys FastBridge Fiber, adding 65,000 homes across PA and NY

What's the deal? Greenlight NetworksDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → has completed its acquisition of FastBridge Fiber, a Reading, Pennsylvania-based fiber internet provider. The deal, first announced on November 3, 2025, adds more than 65,000 household passings across Buffalo, New York, and Pennsylvania communities including Berks County, Williamsport, Erie, and Hazleton.

What's the endgame? Greenlight builds and operates a fiber-to-the-home network offering symmetrical speeds of up to 8 Gbps. It already serves more than 320,000 homes and businesses across New York, Pennsylvania, and Maryland, and expects to add tens of thousands more passings by the end of 2025 as construction continues.

Why now? The acquisition caps a run of deals for Greenlight, following a joint venture with T-MobileDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → and its 2024 purchase of Loop InternetDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →. In April 2025, the company announced a $62 million expansion into Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley.

What changes? The combination brings 120 FastBridge staff to Greenlight's 250 employees, for roughly 370 in total. It also adds operational hubs in Wyomissing, Williamsport, and Robesonia, while strengthening the company's base in Buffalo.

"Through the addition of the FastBridge team's deep, local roots to our existing efforts in Pennsylvania, we are accelerating expansion into new markets across the state," said Greenlight chief executive officer Mark MurphyDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →.

The signal: Regional fiber providers are consolidating to build scale and reach denser networks across the Northeast. Greenlight's stacking of acquisitions, a carrier joint venture, and greenfield builds points to a race for household passings as demand for high-speed connectivity grows.

Read more: EIN Presswire

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