Nextlink Wireless Inc. announced it’s expanding its wireless broadband reach into Atlanta, Chicago and Houston and said it plans to continue aggressively leveraging its spectrum holdings in the United States’ 75 largest markets.
Earlier this year, Nextlink launched broadband access services in Dallas, Los Angeles, Miami, San Diego, Tampa, Fla. and Washington, D.C. Nextlink’s chief executive officer, Bob Beran, said the company is on track to launch services in 12 markets by the end of 2006.
The company also announced that XO Communications has agreed to use Nextlink services as an alternative last-mile solution in the carrier’s nine markets, selling Nextlink’s broadband wireless services directly to enterprise and business customers.
XO Communications and Nextlink are both subsidiaries of XO Holdings Inc. XO Communications provides national and local telecommunications services such as local and long-distance voice, dedicated Internet access, private networking, data transport and Web services to businesses, large enterprises and service providers over a nationwide facilities-based IP network in 75 U.S. markets.
“Nextlink allows us to expand the footprint of customers we can reach, augmenting our metro fiber infrastructure,” said Carl Grivner, CEO of XO Communications. “At the same time, we can reduce our network costs and time to deploy by not having to install our own wireline infrastructure or rely on the local incumbent carrier.”
