Meet Some of the Companies that are Taking Fiber All the Way to the Home

 

Community is Key to success for Morristown Utility's FiberNET System

For more than a century, Morristown Utility Systems (MUS) has provided water and electricity to residents of Morristown, TN. In 2002, the state legislated a call for pilot projects to develop broadband communications across the state. MUS was awarded a project and began outside plant construction for its FiberNET FTTH network. By 2006, the first customers began receiving triple-play services, and MUS FiberNET has grown to more than 5100 active customers today.  Read more...



ATMC HeadquartersATMC Educates Brunswick County on the Value of Next-Gen Broadband

In the early 1950s, the residents of Brunswick County, NC, cried out to the large telecom providers for telephone service - and were largely ignored. So a determined group of people got together to form their own telephone company that would take a special interest in their rural community. More than 50 years later, Atlantic Telephone Membership Corporation (ATMC) is the largest telecom cooperative in North Carolina and one of the largest in the country.  Read more...


 

 North Dakota Co-op Focuses on FTTH for Network Longevity 

 If you're going to take the time to do something, take the time to do it well.  This has been the mantra for one of North Dakota's original cooperatives, BEK Communications. Being owned by your customers creates the perfect incentive to provide top-notch telecommunication services - even in one of the least densely populated areas of the country.  Read more...


 

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Nine Employees Seeking Every Fiber Opportunity Spell Success for Gervais Telephone Company
 
Since establishing its first phone lines between rural farm families in 1914, Gervais Telephone Company has continued to deliver communication services to a portion of rural Oregon. This small cooperative, located at a transportation junction between Salem and Portland, may even boast the first FTTH installation west of the Rockies. But that's not what motivates its nine employees. Rather, they are focused on any opportunity to plant fiber in any nook and cranny that will allow future expansion of their existing 32 square mile territory. Read more...

Broadband Stimulus Puts a Rural Telephone Company Back in the Game

When federal agencies set out to expand broadband deeper into the nation’s rural areas as part of the economic stimulus program, the Northeast Louisiana Telephone Company (NELTC) was probably what they had in mind.  Located in the rural town of Collinston – with 800 telephone voice customers, along with some cable TV and DSL/Internet subscribers, scattered over a 260 square mile area – NELTC has been a small company facing some big decisions.  Read more...