Lightower

The city of Worcester is in the process of completing an extension of its already vast data fiber network, with the goal of making it easier for businesses to access high-speed Internet connections.

Boxborough-based Lightower Fiber Networks, a major provider of technology networking services, said it has been named an authorized vendor by the Commonwealth of Virginia for data network services.

Lightower Fiber Networks of Boxborough has completed its $1.9 billion acquisition of competitor Fibertech Networks, the company said Thursday.

Lightower Fiber Networks of Boxborough will still be the second-largest provider of technology network services in the U.S. after its newly-announced acquisition of competitor Fibertech Networks closes in the third quarter of this year. But Lightower CEO Rob Shanahan said Wednesday that the company will work to narrow the lead of its competitor and market leader, Zayo Group, which is based in Boulder, Colo., and has clients throughout the U.S. and Canada, as well as in Europe and Japan.

Lightower Fiber Networks of Boxborough is buying a Rochester, N.Y.-based competitor.

Lightower Fiber Networks has acquired Chicago data center provider ColocationZone, the Boxborough-based company said Wednesday.

Lightower Fiber Networks of Boxborough said it has completed an 1,100-mile expansion of its all-fiber network throughout Virginia and the Washington, D.C., metro area.

Boxborough-based Lightower Fiber Networks said it's expanding its all-fiber network in downtown Philadelphia.

Boxborough-based Lightower Fiber Networks, an all-fiber network services provider, announced it has been chosen as an authorized vendor to New Jersey's state government through a statewide data communications network services contract.

Boxborough-based Lightower Fiber Networks said it's expanding its broadband fiber network in the Chicago metro region.