Ziply Fiber | |
Formerly | |
Company type | Private |
Industry | Telecommunications |
Predecessors | Northwest divisions of: |
Founded | 1964 |
Headquarters | Kirkland, Washington, U.S. |
Area served | Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana |
Key people | Steve Weed (Executive chairman) Harold Zeitz (CEO) |
Products | Internet service Digital television Telephone Services |
Parent | WaveDivision Capital |
Website | ziplyfiber |
Northwest Fiber, LLC, doing business as Ziply Fiber, is an American telecommunications company based in Kirkland, Washington. Owned by WaveDivision Capital, the company operates fiber-optic broadband services in the Pacific Northwest, serving 1.3 million residential and business customers in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana.[1] It has major offices in Everett, Washington, Beaverton, Oregon, and Hayden, Idaho.
The company has its origins in the northwestern division of GTE, which became part of Verizon in 2000. It was then sold by Verizon to Frontier Communications in 2010. In 2019, WaveDivision Capital—a company founded by former Wave Broadband executives—announced that it would acquire Frontier's northwestern operations for $1.35 billion. After the completion of the acquisition, the services were rebranded as Ziply Fiber. In November 2024, Canadian telecom conglomerate BCE Inc. announced its intent to acquire Ziply for $3.6 billion.