WAYNESBORO, Va., March 06, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Lumos Networks Corp. (“Lumos Networks” or the “Company”), a leading fiber-based service provider in the Mid-Atlantic region signed a multi-year agreement to provide broadband internet services to the following King William County Schools: King William High, Hamilton-Holmes Middle, Acquinton Middle and Cool Springs Primary Schools. Lumos Networks is pleased to have won the competitive bid to provide highly reliable, high speed and robust internet to meet the ever expanding needs of King William County.
Lumos will construct new fiber routes from Route 360 in Hanover to Central Garage and then south-easterly down Route 30 to Hamilton-Holmes Middle School where it will be distributed to provide greatly enhanced internet capabilities and solutions for our teachers, administration staff, and students.
“It is extremely important that King William County Public Schools take this opportunity to improve our internet capacity in order to allow our school community stable web access,” announced Dr. David O. White, Division Superintendent.
“We are excited to announce our partnership with the King William County Public Schools and this relationship bolsters our position as a leader providing advanced broadband connectivity in our markets,” said Timothy G. Biltz, President and CEO of Lumos Networks. “The Richmond Metro market is a key expansion area for Lumos Networks and the education vertical is a critical element of our “Large Local” Enterprise growth strategy.”
“Lumos Networks now has over 500 miles of dense fiber in the Richmond Metro market and we continue to expand this footprint,” noted Joseph McCourt, Chief Revenue Officer of Lumos Networks. “I am proud of our sales, engineering and operations teams for this important contract win.”
“Our planned fiber investments into King William County will allow Lumos Networks to connect King William County Schools to a reliable, redundant and secure network. This new partnership with the School division will support their mission of education and we have the ability to expand the scope and capacity of the network as their bandwidth needs grow,” said Chris Shipman, General Manager and Vice President of Enterprise Sales in the Richmond and Hampton Roads markets for Lumos Networks.
About Lumos Networks
Lumos Networks is a leading fiber-based service provider in the Mid-Atlantic region serving Carrier, Enterprise and Data Center customers, offering end-to-end connectivity in 27 markets in Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio and Kentucky. With a fiber network of 11,028 fiber route miles and 517,244 total fiber strand miles, Lumos Networks connects 1,310 unique Fiber to the Cell sites, 1,685 total FTTC connections, 2,230 on-net buildings and over 3,500 total on-net locations. The Company also connects 44 total data centers, including three data centers acquired from DC74 (now named Lumos Data Centers), two acquired from Clarity Communications and seven company owned co-location facilities. In 2016, Lumos Networks generated over $123 million in Data revenue over our fiber network. Detailed information about Lumos Networks is available at www.lumosnetworks.com.
About King William County Public Schools
KWCPS serves over 2200 students in its 4 schools (not including West Point Public Schools). KWCPS has been fully accredited by the Virginia Board of Education since 2009 and enjoys an over 93% on-time graduation rate. www.kwcps.k12.va.us
Contact:
Will Davis
Senior Vice President of Marketing
Chief of Staff
Phone: (c) 917-519-6994
Email: davisw@lumosnet.com
