Xfone (News - Alert), a provider of high speed broadband services, including Internet access, digital cable TV programming and local and long distance telephone service to residential and business customers, announced that it connected its first triple play customer in Littlefield, Texas.

The triple play service is part of the company’s new PRIDE fiber-to-the-premise network project.

The process for the current build started in October 2010. The project will cover 19 new communities bringing total FTTP passings to approximately 50,000 when construction is completed.

The company is funding the expansion of the fiber network using approximately $100 million in federal stimulus funding.

Xfone has set up its FTTP network in Lubbock, Levelland, Smyer, and Wolfforth, Texas, offering customers in those communities access to voice, video and Internet services using high speed broadband.

“Our fiber network provides some of the highest speed bandwith available and has gained great acceptance from customers in Lubbock, Levelland and Smyer,” said Guy Nissenson, president and CEO of Xfone.

“We’re very pleased to have the opportunity to establish our state of the art fiber network to bring voice, video, and Internet services to new communities like Littlefield that did not previously have access to high speed broadband,” Nissenson added. “Construction of the PRIDE Network is progressing and we look forward to bringing advanced broadband to more customers in the coming weeks.”

The project is significant for both residential and business applications as there is an increasing reliance on the Internet. Speed and accessibility are important for Internet users.

Xfone currently has operations in Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana and also serves customers in Arizona, Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico and Oklahoma.

In its first quarter financial results, Xfone announced the revenue from the company's Fiber-To-The-Premise (FTTP) business grew 33 percent to $2.9 million in the quarter ended March 31, 2011, as compared to approximately $2.2 million in the first quarter of 2010.