{"id":142602,"date":"2025-10-24T11:20:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T11:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/142602\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T11:20:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T11:20:09","slug":"fidium-the-new-face-of-consolidated-communications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/142602\/","title":{"rendered":"Fidium: The new face of Consolidated Communications"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the latest sign that telephones are the past and the internet is the future, Consolidated Communications, which operates the legacy phone network in New Hampshire, has changed its name to Fidium, the brand of its online service.<\/p>\n

The move follows the company\u2019s sale last year to two private investment firms for $3.1 billion, which took the company private, followed by a change in its board of directors and the upcoming retirement of CEO Bob Udell.<\/p>\n

Consolidated launched the Fidium brand in 2021 for its fiber-optic broadband operations, an alternative to internet service provided over copper telephone lines. It says it has built fiber access to more than 324,000 homes and businesses in the state since then. In a company blog, the firm said \u201cnearly 60% of our footprint is already upgraded to fiber, with\u00a080%-plus targeted by 2027.\u201d<\/p>\n

Consolidated\u00a0Communications operates phone and data systems in more than 20 states. It entered New Hampshire in 2017 when it bought\u00a0FairPoint Communications. <\/p>\n

FairPoint in 2008 had bought Verizon\u2019s network in New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine. Verizon\u00a0had been created out of mergers between Bell Atlantic in New England and NYNEX\u00a0in New York, two \u201cbaby Bells\u201d created after the AT&T breakup in 1984.<\/p>\n

The name Fidium was created by Consolidated Communications based on the Latin word \u201cfides,\u201d meaning trust. Fidium is now owned by Searchlight Capital Partners, and British Columbia Investment Management Corporation.<\/p>\n

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