Vexus Fiber declared the city of Amarillo a Certified Gigabit City Powered by Vexus on Tuesday morning during an announcement held at Innovation Outpost.
Following the reception, representatives from Vexus spoke and presented the Gigabit City certificate to city officials in the afternoon during Tuesday’s regular city council meeting at city hall.
The new certification marks Amarillo for the major milestone, indicating Vexus’s ability to ensure its ultra-high-speed, multi-gigabit fiber optic network is available to a majority of households and businesses throughout the city.
“Three years ago, we started building out the city of Amarillo with fiber, and at the end of our completion of it, we saw that our whole footprint, almost 75,000 residential homes and over 4,000 businesses, that we bill to are 1 Gig certified. And with that being over 50% of the footprint in Amarillo, we are officially certifying the city of Amarillo as a Gigabit City,” Brian Borthwick, Director of Operations for Vexus in Amarillo, said.