Rochester, New York-based Greenlight Networks \u2014 which acquired Scranton-based Loop Internet in October \u2014 further expanded its service territory in Northeast Pennsylvania through the purchase of Reading-based FastBridge Fiber.<\/p>\n
The FastBridge purchase brings Greenlight\u2019s services to 65,000 additional households in areas including Hazleton, Berks County, Bloomsburg, Danville, Williamsport and Erie, officials said.<\/p>\n
Greenlight first announced its presence in the region in April 2025, offering service in Dickson City, officials said.<\/p>\n
Coinciding with the purchase of Loop, Greenlight established the company\u2019s first in-state operations hub in Scranton and expanded its reach into Wilkes-Barre, Mountain Top and Kingston, among other areas, officials said.<\/p>\n
Greenlight Networks officials held a ribbon cutting for the Scranton office, 104 Wyoming Ave., on July 23.<\/p>\n
The Loop acquisition added nearly 36,000 potential customers to Greenlight\u2019s footprint, officials said. The company plans to offer service to more than 30,000 additional customers through the rest of 2026.<\/p>\n
Greenlight currently serves more than 320,000 homes and small businesses across New York, Pennsylvania and Maryland, officials added.<\/p>\n
Greenlight officials said the company, founded in 2011, boasts download speeds of up to 8 gigabytes per second for residential and small-business customers.<\/p>\n
Greenlight also announced plans in April to extend its network services into Lehigh Valley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rochester, New York-based Greenlight Networks \u2014 which acquired Scranton-based Loop Internet in October \u2014 further expanded its service…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[60,201,182,803,28,128,130,129,178],"class_list":["post-254931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-business","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-luzerne-county","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-scranton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254931","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=254931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}