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tryton1024

Roseville Fiber expansion

I live in an area of Roseville that does not currently have fiber service. Fiber surrounds the blocks around me but my particular block is a dead zone.

I have noticed some construction in the area that is leading me to believe that fiber is being expanded.

Consolidated communications has either partnered with Fidium or their fiber division is called Fidium

If you have been waiting for fiber in your area, check the Consolidated communication website and see if it says it is expanding into your area. The status of my area now shows I'm on a waiting list.

Thanks

Posted Nov 8, 2022, 6:30 PM UTC

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thom_run•

I hope our neighborhood in east Roseville gets Fidium fiber, our current Consolidated speed of barely 20mbps is crap. With the only positive being that there is rarely an outage.

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crucialcolin•

yeah Comcast now has a monopoly in many parts of Roseville as a result.

The Consolidated infrastructure is still based on aging copper from the Roseville Telephone or early Surewest days in older areas. For example Diamond Oaks top speed avail is 12/1 over DSL.

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thom_run•

Not a fan of GreedCast for various reasons But this copper connection is so outdated

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crucialcolin•

likewise on both. Most of the copper infrastructure is falling apart too making the connections slower and more and more unreliable over time.

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SableMalamute•

My childhood home has/had that. Drove me crazy. I mean, I can only imagine how expensive and time consuming it is to schedule and work on cabling in the area to bring them up to 2020 standards, but still, it's not going to magically change over night. Working with the city to rip up sidewalks, road detours, resident parking arrangements, cost of fiber, etc.

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crucialcolin•

the good news is it does seem Consolidated is finally willing do that. From what I've seen posted about fiber upgrades in their other service areas is that the process seems to take about 6 months on average. They've also been aggressively expanding.

With winters approach I doubt much more work will happen though. So I would imagine something like maybe a fall 2023 ready to order expanded fiber footprint date in Roseville.

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tryton1024OP•

It is awesome. After the Telcomms were allowed to offer universal lifeline over fiber instead of copper, I have seen many new fiber lines being installed.

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Dogmanscott63•

On the west side, same issue. And currently thinking they've throttled all of us. Just so slow.
Fidum map show them across Baseline from us, but I doubt they are running into my neighborhood anytime soon. May go to Comcast just because.

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thom_run•

Interesting... https://youtu.be/5fDvGZ1dDLk

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PinkertonFld•

Fidium is Consolidated's Home Internet "Marketing" name... Just like Comcast is "XFinity", and Wave is now "Astound". I don't know. But Consolidated/Fidium Fiber has very good service (DSL, not so much...).

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Who_GNURoseville•

Fidium is the branding from Consolidated Communications Inc (CCI), for high-speed internet access, just as Comcast branded theirs Xfinity.

SureWest, the local company that CCI bought, picked up the fiber network from the assets of a company called WINfirst, that went bankrupt while they were still laying out the network, in 2002. SureWest continued offering the network in new construction, but didn't finish building it out for the rest of the city. Because of that, housing tracts built before 2002 don't all have access to CCI's high-speed network. They've been slowly expanding it, but it's been two decades, and it still doesn't cover a lot of the houses in pre-2002 neighborhoods in Roseville.

I have heard of existing address getting new fiber service, and it happened to a few of my neighbors, bot only a few dozen addresses in a neighborhood of probably a few thousand. The joke with my neighbors is that someone important at CCI must live in that group of addresses. It's literally surrounded by addresses that don't have service.

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