Life happens online every day: online education and remote work, telehealth visits, new ways of keeping in touch with friends and family, and ever-expanding entertainment options means broadband connectivity is essential for communities across the country.
Spectrum is the largest and fastest-growing rural internet provider in the country1. Our approximately $9 billion subsidized Rural Construction Initiative, which includes more than $2 billion in government funding, will add approximately 1.75 million mostly rural homes and small businesses to our network over the next few years.
Spectrum’s underground construction team bored under the Santee River using state-of-the-art directional drilling equipment to deliver reliable broadband to nearly 800 homes and small businesses in South Carolina.
Wyant Farm in rural North Carolina, which has been in the Wyant family for generations, is set to take advantage of new technologies and grow into the future, now that it is connected to Spectrum high-speed internet.
Fireside BBQ and High Lonesome Ranch are among the many rural small businesses to benefit from Spectrum’s massive expansion in East Texas. By 2025, Spectrum’s subsidized Rural Construction Initiative is expected to connect an FCC-estimated 133,000 homes and small businesses in the region.
When Spectrum connected Upper Sandusky, Ohio-based Dlubak Glass to its network, it involved boring 25 feet under railroad tracks.
Delivering high-speed broadband to the remote island of North Haven off the coast of Maineis no small task. It requires the dedication of Spectrum Field Technicians, whose work helps keep the people and businesses of the island community connected.
Spectrum recently completed a broadband expansion project in the small, rural town of Pleasant Hill, Tennessee made possible by the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund. Twenty-eight miles of newly constructed Spectrum gigabit broadband has delivered newfound educational and business opportunity, say residents, and in one case a lifeline to accurate weather data.
As a Construction Manager, Spectrum’s Mark Olejniczak oversees the buildout to small rural towns in northern Wisconsin that lack access. Recently, his team completed a major expansion to bring gigabit broadband to 1,300 families and small businesses in his rural hometown of St. Germain.
1Based on comparison of June 2022 and December 2022 FCC Broadband Data Collection locations.
