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 are very excited to partner…
We’re less than two weeks into 2021 and two telco electric broadband partnerships already have been announced. The latest one comes from Comporium and York Electric Cooperative for a deployment in rural South Carolina. Last week, Indiana-based telco Smithville and…
Smithville Communications and SCI REMC–a rural telecom provider and an electric cooperative, respectively–are teaming to build fiber based broadband infrastructure to serve their common Indiana service areas. The telco electric cooperative fiber partnership project will serve about 3,400 residents and…
Partnerships between rural local exchange carriers and electric cooperatives can benefit both companies, according to a new report from CoBank Knowledge Exchange, the research unit of rural lender CoBank. For the telco, the partnership can be a way of offsetting…
Working together previously is what led Bay Country Communications, a cable/voice/ISP provider, and Choptank Electric Cooperative and its subsidiary Choptank Fiber LLC, to take things to the next level, said Tim McGaha, Vice President of Technical Services, Choptank Electric and…
A public-private partnership between Windstream and Lumpkin County, Georgia, will provide fiber broadband to about 8,200 addresses, according to the service provider. The cost of the project will be $20.4 million and it is expected to be completed next year….
Rock Hill, South Carolina & York, South Carolina – (BUSINESS WIRE) – After approximately 26 months of construction, Comporium and York Electric Cooperative (YEC) have completed their joint fiber expansion project in two Upstate South Carolina counties. The two utilities,…
DALLAS, June 05, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — DZS (Nasdaq: DZSI), a global leader of access, optical and cloud-controlled software defined solutions, and its strategic partner Irby Utilities (Irby) today announced deployment milestones reached by two of their rural electric cooperative broadband customers. Connect2First, a subsidiary…
Rock Hill, South Carolina & York, South Carolina – (BUSINESS WIRE) – The partnership between Comporium and YEC has proven successful, providing high-speed Internet to more than 3,800 members of the co-op for the first time. “We are pleased to…
In 2013, United Electric Cooperative of Savannah, Missouri began providing high-speed internet to unserved and underserved co-op members. United leveraged funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for this expansion to initially bring internet to over 5,000 homes and…
The National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative (NRTC) has inked a new partnership aimed at making simplified streaming TV solutions available to its members and their customers. The offering relies on a partnership with MyBundle.TV, a company that offers products aimed at…