Keeping Telluride Connected
Telluride, Colorado, is a remote mountain town popular with skiers and snowboarders. Learn how Spectrum technicians keep residents and businesses connected year-round in rugged conditions.
In addition to our ongoing network expansion, Charter’s multi-year, multi-billion-dollar rural construction initiative will add over 100,000 miles of fiber-optic network infrastructure to deliver gigabit-speed internet access to more than 1 million currently-unserved, mostly rural homes and small businesses across the country.
We are driven to provide new services, reach new customers, and accommodate higher traffic volume – as now more than ever our customers rely on the internet to work, learn and stay connected.
Telluride, Colorado, is a remote mountain town popular with skiers and snowboarders. Learn how Spectrum technicians keep residents and businesses connected year-round in rugged conditions.
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.
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.
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.
Charter has created an in-house Underground Construction team to help expedite unprecedented rural broadband expansion to rural homes and small businesses.
Charter recently completed a rural broadband expansion project that brought high-speed internet to more than 200 underserved rural homes in the Menominee Indian Reservation in Wisconsin. Crews worked through heavily forested areas, rocky terrain, and numerous water crossings to expand the network under an aggressive timeline.
Charter’s initiative will focus on delivering gigabit high-speed broadband access to more than 1 million unserved customer locations identified by the FCC and awarded to Charter in the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) Phase I auction.
Less than a year after Spectrum expanded its high-speed broadband network into the rural McKenzie River Valley in Oregon, wildfires destroyed 30-miles of infrastructure in a matter of hours, disrupting connectivity to residents and businesses in the area. Spectrum crews - many of them also under evacuation orders - worked quickly to repair the network and restore broadband access to customers.