website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cLehigh Valley residents deserve internet that works as hard as they do,\u201d said Kevin Dickens, CEO of Empire Fiber Internet, in a news release. \u201cWe\u2019re not just expanding our network\u2014we\u2019re giving customers a superior choice. By signing up now, residents can secure early access to faster speeds, better reliability, and a customer experience built for them.\u201d<\/p>\n
The company that would become Empire Fiber Internet- Prattsburgh Phone Company- was founded in Prattsburgh, N.Y., in 1896. It expanded into Pennsylvania in 1952 with the purchase of the North Penn Telephone Company.<\/p>\n
It first began offering DSL internet service in the early 2000s.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Now Empire offers\u00a0100% fiber optic internet in New York and Pennsylvania. For the latter, service is available in communities in the Scranton-Wilkes Barre area, as well as Williamsport, Hazelton, Bloomsburg, and Erie.<\/p>\n
The company claims customers can expect transparent, straightforward pricing with no hidden fees and no long-term contracts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEHIGH VALLEY, Pa.- A fiber optic internet company says it intends to add the Lehigh Valley to its…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,232,805],"class_list":["post-160703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-allentown-area","tag-lehighvalley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}