Mergers and acquisitions strike fixed wireless landscape amid advances by Verizon and T-Mobile

Verizon and T-Mobile have been headlining the fixed wireless access (FWA) market in the US, signing up hundreds of thousands of new customers to their respective offerings in recent months. But all that action by the market's heavyweights has been obscuring a significant amount of upheaval among some of the sector's smaller FWA providers. For example, Cincinnati Bell (now doing business as altafiber) recently acquired Agile Network Builders, a fixed wireless network operator that was a subsidiary of American Tower. Separately, Ziply Fiber recently announced it would buy Eastern Oregon Net (better known as EONI), which provides services including fixed wireless in parts of Washington state and elsewhere. And Shentel is packaging up its own Beam-branded FWA business – which includes 2.5GHz spectrum and around 1,700 customers – in order to sell the operation. It's unclear whether all this merger-and-acquisition action will result in broader FWA rollouts.