by Pivot
Tag: Electric Cooperatives
Broadband Innovator Series: Modernizing the Grid with Fiber
In Telecompetitor’s latest Broadband Industry Innovator series, we talk with ADTRAN’s Strategic Sales Development Manager, Doug Payauys about modernizing the grid. In part I of this three part series, Doug outlines grid modernization and the…
Conexon Connect Wins $90M Project with Electric Company in Georgia
Flint Energies, an electric membership corporation in Georgia, has selected Conexon Connect to provide a FTTH-based broadband network in its middle Georgia service area. Conexon Connect is the internet service provider (ISP) arm of rural…
Nextlink Partners with Rural Electric Cooperative on Fiber and Fixed Wireless Build
Rural-focused service provider Nextlink announced plans yesterday to deploy fiber and fixed wireless broadband in 10 counties in east central Illinois in cooperation with Eastern Illini Electric Cooperative (EIEC). An EIEC spokesperson said the cooperative…
ADTRAN and Cookson Hills Electric Cooperative Collaborate on RDOF-Funded Fiber Broadband Network
February 02, 2022 — HUNTSVILLE, Ala.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–ADTRAN®, Inc., (NASDAQ:ADTN), the leading provider of next-generation multigigabit fiber access and fiber extension solutions, today announced it is helping Cookson Hills Electric Cooperative (CHEC) build its own fiber…
Why Utility Companies Should Offer Broadband and What They Need to Know
Broadband is an essential aspect of everyday life and has become a crucial service offering for many local utility companies. ISPN’s new guide, “5 Things Utility Companies Should Know About Getting into Broadband“, provides key…
RDOF Funds Headed to Midco, Rural Electric Cooperatives, Among Others
The FCC said today that it is ready to authorize over $709 million in Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) funding for 50 broadband providers. As a commission press release notes, the “bulk” of the RDOF…
Windstream Inks Another Public-Private Partnership with an Electric Cooperative
Windstream’s Kinetic business unit has reached a public-private partnership agreement with Georgia electric membership cooperative Sumter EMC to bring fiber broadband to 16,000 homes and businesses in rural southwest Georgia. Windstream has become increasingly interested…
ATMC Plans $100 Million North Carolina Fiber Broadband Project
In January 2022, The Atlantic Telephone Membership Cooperative (ATMC) will begin a multi-year, $100 million fiber broadband project that will replace copper and coaxial cable in Brunswick County, North Carolina with fiber. All cooperative members…
Michigan Power Cooperative to Launch Broadband Soon
ANN ARBOR, Mich., Sept. 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Gigabit speed internet service will soon be available in Northeastern Michigan, thanks to an ambitious community broadband expansion effort by Presque Isle Electric & Gas Co-op (PIE&G).…
CORE Electric Cooperative Selects Comcast Business for Ethernet Services
SEDALIA, COLO. Sept. 8, 2021 Comcast Business today announced that CORE Electric Cooperative — a nonprofit electric distribution cooperative that serves more than 170,000 customers along Colorado’s Front Range region — has selected Comcast Business…
PalmettoLink Partnership Brings Telco and Electric Cooperatives Together for Broadband
Palmetto Electric Cooperative is partnering with Walterboro, S.C.,-based Palmetto Rural Telephone Cooperative (PRTC) for PalmettoLink, which aims to bring high-speed internet to rural residents in the South Carolina counties of Allendale, Hampton and Jasper. “We…
Comporium and York Electric Cooperative Project Turns Up Customers
Regional broadband provider Comporium and the York Electric Cooperative (YEC) last week connected the first of 5,000 unserved people they will bring service to in western York and parts of Cherokee counties, S.C. The two…
