Astound Broadband (Astound), the sixth-largest US 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-w****** 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
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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-w****** services that customers need to stay connected.”
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“Astound has a collective commitment to serving customers with innovative technologies and award-w****** 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-w****** internet service, customers will have access to savings and competitive offerings.Astound offers two “pay by the gig” plans and two u******** talk and text plans. Customers can choose a plan whereby they only pay for the data they need or they can expand to an u******** 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.
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