(This Post is taken from an article posted on the Stop The Cap Website; Call to Action: AT&T’s Profit Protection Act Resurfaces) Draft legislation to make community Broadband more expensive and harder to get resurfaced this week in the state Senate Judiciary Committee. The legislation, H. 3508, would hamstring communities from setting up fiber networks [...]
The Focus Fiber project is nearing the end of the Phase I construction and fiber installation is in progress. Planning has already begun for Phase II and we will be publishing maps of this Phase soon. As we continue the phased construction, we will begin to place segments of the network in service. The first to see light travel across it will be segments from Walhalla . . . .
January 3, 2012 Update If you have been traveling the roads in Oconee County, you cannot help but see the JET trucks and orange conduit everywhere. We have completed almost 90 miles of fiber conduit placement and have been blowing fiber optic cable into the completed conduit. We had a slow start to the project [...]