Gigapower is the joint venture between AT&T and BlackRock’s infrastructure arm, building open-access fiber in metros outside AT&T’s traditional wireline footprint — wholesale networks that AT&T anchors and other ISPs ride. New-market greenfield means fast mobilization, new permitting relationships, and primes assembling sub benches from scratch. Crews with compliant paperwork get first call. We make sure that’s you.
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What Gigapower-program subs are typically required to carry — confirm the exhibit on your specific subcontract:
$1M per occurrence / $2M aggregate with additional insured status for the contracting entity — ongoing and completed operations — primary and non-contributory, with a waiver of subrogation. Endorsements on the policy, not description-box promises.
Statutory workers’ comp in every state your crews touch, with $1M employers liability. Compliance systems verify comp per state — multi-state crews need multi-state endorsement, not assumptions.
$1M combined single limit across owned, hired, and non-owned vehicles — with fleet and radius rated for how the routes actually run.
$2M–$5M over GL, auto, and employers liability on larger scopes and programs with higher flow-down limits. Following-form, so it inherits the endorsements underneath.
Boring, trenching, and underground scopes increasingly carry pollution requirements — drilling fluid, fuel, and disturbed soil are excluded by GL. Our CPL page covers the details.
Greenfield metros mean every relationship is new — municipal ROW offices, inspection regimes, and prime compliance teams all onboarding at once. The JV structure also means certificate details matter: name the entity on your work order, not the brand on the truck wrap.
If your route sheets or work orders trace back to Gigapower, this package applies to you.
Full passings construction in brand-new markets — aerial, underground, and everything in between.
New-market underground work with fresh 811 relationships and unfamiliar soils — document locates religiously.
Backbone through drop splicing on open-access architecture.
Multi-ISP fulfillment — open access means several providers’ customers on one network.
New-market permitting means proving insurance to cities that have never seen your paperwork.
Following the JV into new metros? Multi-state comp and auto rated for the road.
Generic agents quote limits off a checklist. We build to the program — endorsements, entities, platforms, and the scope your crews actually run.
New-market primes build sub benches fast and skip crews with pending corrections. We deliver the package and the COI before the market launches — so you're on the bench for day one.
Additional insured on GL and auto, waivers where required, primary and non-contributory backed by actual endorsements — the details compliance platforms bounce certificates over.
Renewal certs issued before expiration, because program compliance systems flag lapses automatically and stopped POs cost more than premium ever will.
Boring and trenching subs get WC class codes that match the work, XCU-clean GL, and pollution liability priced up front.
What crews ask before taking Gigapower work.
The typical program floor mirrors AT&T-tier requirements: $1M/$2M GL with additional insured and waiver endorsements, primary and non-contributory wording, statutory comp with $1M employers liability, $1M CSL auto, and umbrella layers on larger scopes. Underground crews should price pollution liability up front.
The entity on your subcontract, which is typically a Gigapower JV entity or the prime contractor running the build — not AT&T. Match the paper exactly and reissue if the contracting entity changes as the JV grows.
The construction is standard FTTH; the pace isn't. New-market launches compress schedules, and wholesale economics reward primes that mobilize benches fast — which rewards subs whose insurance, licensing, and safety documentation are ready before the market opens.
Quoted and bound within a business day for most crews; entity-correct COIs same day after binding.
Based on the requirements Gigapower program subcontractors are typically asked to meet; confirm the insurance exhibit in your own subcontract — terms vary by entity, scope, and program. Company names are trademarks of their respective owners. FiberContractorInsurance.com is an independent insurance service and is not affiliated with Gigapower.
Prime-spec limits, real endorsements, and same-day COIs built for Gigapower program review.
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