PEG Bandwidth: Wireless operators are pulling back on rural dark fiber backhaul initiatives'

PEG Bandwidth is one of the many competitors that are willing to provide dark fiber services to wireless operators like Verizon, but the company is seeing some carriers put their plans on hold.

What's giving wireless operators pause on dark fiber initiatives, particularly in Tier 2 and Tier 3 markets, are a number of issues, including all that money spent on the recent AWS-3 spectrum auction. However, dark fiber is only one part of PEG Bandwidth's equation. PEG Bandwidth continues to grow its fiber-to-the-tower footprint, having announced just last week that it lit 2,000 wireless cell sites with fiber.