“And we plan to launch 2 x 1 service in additional markets later this year.”

In context

“st the one-time ACP-related impacts to our customer base. Beyond ACP and hurricane impacts, we were generally pleased with our fourth quarter customer results, and core Internet results, which exclude ACP and storm-related losses, were better than last year. We continue to compete well across our footprint. As Chris discussed, we continue to pursue initiatives that are intended to drive customer and financial growth, including network evolution, new pricing and packaging, converged connectivity product development, and footprint expansion, including our subsidized rural initiative. As of year-end, we had launched symmetrical 1-gigabit speeds in all eight of our Step 1 markets. Earlier this year, we launched 2 x 1 gigabit service in two of these markets, Lexington, Kentucky and Cincinnati. And we plan to launch 2 x 1 service in additional markets later this year. Demand for faster Internet speeds continues to grow as data usage grows. In the fourth quarter, monthly data usage by our residential Internet customers, who don't have our traditional video product, reached over 800 gigabytes. Our WiFi also continues to improve, driven by our advanced WiFi product and our new WiFi 7 router. Our WiFi supports our converged connectivity product including Spectrum Mobile, which is only in about 8% of passings, but remains the fastest-growing mobile service in the United States and offers the fastest overall speeds. Turning to rural, we ended the quarter with a total of 813,000 subsidized rural passings. We grew those passings by 117,000 in the fourth quarter and by nearly 400,000 over the last 12 months, and we generated 41,000 net customer additions in our”