Astound Broadband to expand wireless market through strategic relationship
Princeton, N.J. –July 12 / 26, 2023– Astound Broadband (Astound), the sixth-largest U.S. cable provider, powered by leading regional providers RCN, Grande Communications (Grande), Wave Broadband (Wave) and enTouch Systems (enTouch), is expanding its new Astound Mobile service, powered by T-Mobile, America’s 5G leader, to additional Astound markets. Known for its award-winning customer service, Astound is making its mobile offering available to customers in approximately 4 million homes currently passed by the company across 12 states.
This month, the service will now be exclusively available to Astound home internet customers who are eligible residents in:
- New York City and surrounding markets
- Pennsylvania markets of Lehigh Valley, Luzerne and Delaware County
- Chicago IL, Evansville IN and surrounding markets
- Washington DC, Maryland, Virginia and surrounding markets
- Texas areas of Austin, San Antonio, San Marcos, Houston, Dallas and Brownwood
- California, Oregon, and Washington markets
In June, Astound Mobile had announced its availability to customers in Massachusetts and Corpus Christi, Midland-Odessa, Temple, and Waco Texas. The company plans to launch Astound Mobile Business later this year.
“Astound’s ongoing journey into the wireless market comes at a time when it is more critical than ever for our customers to have fast, reliable, and high-value broadband and mobile services,” said Jim Holanda, Astound CEO. “Through our relationship with T-Mobile, we are continuing to bring exceptional choice, value, and competitive, award-winning services that customers need to stay connected.”
“Astound has a collective commitment to serving customers with innovative technologies and award-winning customer service in the regional broadband marketplace. By choosing the T-Mobile nationwide network, Astound will further their commitment by creating custom applications that benefit their customers beyond their home or business on T-Mobile’s nationwide 5G network,” said Dan Thygesen, Senior Vice President of T-Mobile Wholesale and head of T-Mobile’s growing wholesale business.
Astound’s mobile product leverages the nation’s largest, fastest and most awarded 5G network through T-Mobile and offers a variety of plans that when bundled with Astound’s ultra-fast, award-winning internet service, customers will have access to savings and competitive offerings. Astound offers two “pay by the gig” plans and two unlimited talk and text plans. Customers can choose a plan whereby they only pay for the data they need or they can expand to an unlimited plan with data allotted to each user. Customers can stream, browse, talk and text with confidence knowing Astound Mobile runs on T-Mobile’s powerful network with 5G service in all 50 states.
For more information, visit astound.com/mobile.
About Astound Broadband
Astound Broadband (astound.com) is the sixth largest cable operator in the U.S., providing award-winning high-speed internet, broadband communications solutions, TV, phone services, and fiber optic solutions for residential and business customers across the United States. Astound Broadband is comprised of organizations formerly known as RCN, Grande Communications, Wave Broadband, and enTouch. The company services Chicago, Indiana, Eastern Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, New York City, Maryland, Washington, D.C., Texas, and regions throughout California, Oregon, and Washington.
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