Good Wednesday morning, Alexandria!
🌤 Today’s weather: Clear throughout the day. High of 47 and low of 33.
🌤 Tomorrow: Clear throughout the day. High of 58 and low of 32. Sunrise at 7:19 am and sunset at 7:16 pm.
🚨 You need to know
Ting Internet announced this week that its fiber internet is now available in some Alexandria neighborhoods.
Last year, Alexandria’s City Council voted to allow Lumos and Ting to piggyback off broadband internet service cables the city was laying down alongside a new municipal network, breaking Comcast’s monopoly as Alexandria’s sole internet provider.
“Ting’s fiber Internet is currently available in select neighborhoods and is steadily expanding across all of Alexandria,” the company said in a release, “with full municipal access expected by 2025.”
Residents can put in their addresses on Ting’s website to see if they qualify. There’s no indication of which neighborhoods Ting is now operating in, but a few addresses in Arlandria showed that service was ready to go.
“Customers in Alexandria will be able to sign up for symmetrical residential Internet for $89 per month, which provides Ting’s gigabit fiber Internet with upload and download speeds of up to 1,000 megabits per second (Mbps),” the release said. “Plans for businesses enterprises and bulk services are fully customizable and can be created with the Ting Internet enterprise team.”
📈 Tuesday’s most read
The following are the most-read ALXnow articles for Mar 14, 2023.
- A look back at the ‘urban renewal’ project that reshaped Old Town (1446 views)
- No arrest after gunfire near North Ridge neighborhood on Sunday (580 views)
- Alexandria’s City Council and School Board clash in intense budget battle (492 views)
- Wind Advisory now in effect for Alexandria (214 views)
🗞 Other local coverage
- Spring Garden Market Set for April 14-15 at River Farm
Alexandria Living (Tuesday @ 7:14 pm)
- City of Alexandria Resumes Spring Mulch Program and Street Sweeping
Zebra (Tuesday @ 5:06 pm)
- Victorian House In Old Town Alexandria Speaks For Itself
Patch (Tuesday @ 4:15 pm)
- Cappies Review: ‘Mamma Mia!’ At St. Stephen’s And St. Agnes School
Patch (Tuesday @ 12:55 pm)
- Ting Launches Internet Service in Alexandria
Alexandria Living (Tuesday @ 12:28 pm)
- Metal Detector Proposal Receives Support In Alexandria Schools Survey
Patch (Tuesday @ 10:36 am)
- Outfoxing Mange
Alexandria Living (Tuesday @ 8:10 am)
- Alexandria Film ‘There is a Monster’ to Debut
Alexandria Living (Tuesday @ 7:57 am)
- Incandescent Cast Shines at Signature Theatre in Selling Kabul
Zebra (Tuesday @ 12:07 am)
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