The 2025 Broadband Communities Top 100 includes companies, entities, and organizations making the biggest impacts this year.
By: Brad Randall, Broadband Communities
From multimillion fiber expansions to grassroots deployments in rural communities, the connectivity landscape is more dynamic than ever in 2025. As the BEAD program injects new energy to the telecom sector, we take a look at the top 100 organizations (in no particular order) accelerating builds, sparking new partnerships, and reshaping the competitive landscape in 2025.
Nextlink Internet has expanded beyond providing fixed wireless internet and is now a rising player in rural fiber broadband. The company has announced a multitude of recent fiber expansions in Texas and beyond and has signified a commitment to bettering the rural communities they serve, like in Seward, Nebraska, where the company opened their first Digital Empowerment Center.
The Digital Empowerment Center in Seward offers a free digital literacy course, access to tools that can help sharpen technical skills, Minecraft Hour of Code tutorials targeted towards giving a youth audience coding experience, and tips for participating safely online.
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86. Ubiquity
With a focus on last-mile connectivity, Ubiquity has an open-access fiber platform that is growing quickly in the U.S. market. With partners that include ISPs, wireless carriers, utilities, and municipalities, the company also emphasizes their MDU focus, with a division called Ubiquity Smart Buildings. With no up-front cost for MDU owners, the division of Ubiquity specializes in the deployment of fiber-to-the-unit networks, allowing MDUs to accommodate technologies like managed Wi-Fi, security systems, access management, climate control, and EV charging stations.
14. Nokia
Nokia, through Nokia Bell Labs, is a technology innovation leader, and describes itself as a pioneer of networks, one that produces open architectures that seamlessly integrate into any ecosystem. In the United States, Nokia has partnered with both municipalities, like the City of Superior in Wisconsin, which selected Nokia to provide its fiber and IP solutions as part of the ConnectSuperior network. Nokia was also selected as a partner by Memphis Light, Gas and Water (MLGW), the largest three-service municipal utility in the United States, to deploy a comprehensive private 5G wireless network that will serve the utility’s 420,000 customers.
13. Tarana Wireless
Tarana’s next generation fixed-wireless access (ngFWA) technology is utilized by over 300 ISPs across 24 countries, according to Tarana Wireless. The company’s ngFWA product, which has had a revolutionary impact on connectivity in underserved areas, is the result of a decade of research and development, and over $400 million of investment.
Tarana also says their G2 platform will allow for denser deployments of gigabit services on a scale, with their G1 platform proving that ngFWA has indeed established itself as a vital pillar of the broadband ecosystem.
11. Cambium Networks
According to Cambium Networks, the company has experienced a rapid adoption of their managed Wi-Fi and ONE Network solutions in MDU and build-to-rent (BTR) properties worldwide. Success stories with Cambium Networks include Wire Stream, which used Cambium solutions to deliver Wi-Fi to 800 units across five buildings in California, leading to $25,000 a month in new revenue generation. With cloud-managed simplicity, resident-grade performance, demand continues to drive Cambium Networks’ deployments as the company seeks to turn the expectations of residents into real financial gains for owners and operators.
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