Brightspeed can replace copper with unique wireless technology

Brightspeed is on a big mission to deploy more fiber, currently passing about 90,000 new premises per month with fiber. But it is also retiring copper on a home-by-home basis for customers who are experiencing service problems. Sometimes it moves these customers to fiber, but other times it moves them to a unique wireless service. Tom Maguire, CEO of Brightspeed, said that there are two approaches to copper retirement: proactive and reactive. The proactive approach Maguire mentioned would be what AT&T is attempting to do in California and some other states, where it petitions the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and state agencies to retire copper in large areas. But Brightspeed isn’t taking that approach to copper retirement. Instead, it is overbuilding its copper plant as fast as it can.