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.
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 so even more communities can participate fully in the digital world.
When Spectrum connected Upper Sandusky, Ohio-based Dlubak Glass to its network, it involved boring 25 feet under railroad tracks.
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.
