Telecommunications in Lincoln may not have had a bigger year than 2016.
Not only did Allo Communications start its new internet, TV and phone service, Windstream introduced 1-gigabit internet service and Charter Communications bought out Time Warner Cable and introduced a new brand, Spectrum, to Lincoln.
Here's a look back at 2016 for the city's three major TV, internet and phone providers and a look ahead at what's in store this year.
Allo
After months of hiring employees and building its all-fiber network, Nelnet-owned Allo started service to a few thousand customers last summer.
Allo President Brad Moline declined to provide customer numbers but said he feels the company is about 90 days behind where it planned to be at this point.
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Allo turned on service first in downtown and a swath of southeast Lincoln from roughly 40th to 98th streets and O to Van Dorn streets. It is building most of the rest of southeast Lincoln between 40th and 98th streets, as well as a small section of north Lincoln from 27th to 84th streets between O and Vine streets.
Despite being behind schedule, Moline said things are going well, and the company is "trying to get a big piece of construction done in 2017."
"We're feeling quite confident that by sometime this year ... we'll be ahead of the plan."
Moline also said that Allo now has 200 people working in Lincoln and plans to hire dozens more this year.
Windstream
Allo was the first company to announce it planned to make super-fast 1-gigabit internet service available in Lincoln, but Windstream actually was the first provider to make it available.
Windstream made the ultra-fast internet service available to about 2,300 of its customers in April and is up to about 7,000 customers now, said Brad Hedrick, Windstream's division vice president of operations.
Hedrick said Windstream also is in the process of rolling out more 1G internet service to customers in 28 older areas of the city, although he declined to say where or how many additional customers will get the service.
The 1G internet debut came almost exactly a year after Windstream debuted its Kinetic TV service to about 50,000 customers in Lincoln in April 2015. Hedrick said it has slightly expanded Kinetic availability since then, and "we definitely continue to grow that."
Charter
Charter closed its deal to buy Time Warner Cable in May and initially said Lincoln customers likely wouldn't see any changes until 2017.
But just before Thanksgiving, Charter announced the debut of its Spectrum brand of TV, internet and phone service in Lincoln.
Charter slightly increased internet speeds on low-end packages and also made some other changes, although it allowed existing Time Warner Cable customers to keep the packages they had.
Charter spokesman Wes Shirley said Lincoln customers have noticed the positive changes.