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 multi-year rural construction initiative is driven by more than $7 billion in private investment from Charter and will ultimately add an additional 100,000+ miles of fiber-optic network infrastructure and deliver symmetrical and multi-gigabit speed internet access to more than 1.7 million new locations across the country.
GoldMark Farm in Ocala, Florida is among 35,000 rural connections across the state that are part of Spectrum’s Rural Construction Initiative.
Tucker Farm thrives with Spectrum's expansion of high-speed internet to Warren County, Kentucky. Farmers now efficiently pull data off their tractors and use other agriculture technology methods to optimize production of their corn, wheat and soybean crops.
At Mighty Grand Dairy Farm in rural Wisconsin, the cows wear fitness trackers that monitor their health - an advancement in cow health monitoring that is enhanced by Spectrum’s high-speed internet service, which was recently expanded into the area.
When Spectrum connected Upper Sandusky, Ohio-based Dlubak Glass to its network, it involved boring 25 feet under railroad tracks.
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.
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.
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