Spectrum launches internet, TV, other services in parts of Franklin County – WRBI Radio - Country 103.9 WRBI

Franklin County, IN — Spectrum has announced the motorboat of Spectrum Internet, Mobile, TV, and Voice services to antecedently underserved areas of Franklin County.

When operation is complete, much than 725 Franklin County residents and tiny businesses volition person entree to Spectrum services for the archetypal time.

Spectrum’s recently constructed fiber-optic web buildout is portion of the company’s astir $5 cardinal concern successful unserved agrarian communities, which includes much than $1 cardinal won successful the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) RDOF auction.

The company’s RDOF enlargement volition supply broadband entree to astir 1 cardinal lawsuit locations arsenic estimated by the FCC crossed 24 states successful the coming years.

Charter Communications besides presented the Franklin County Community Foundation with a $2,500 donation to motorboat the Spectrum Digital Literacy Scholarship Fund successful enactment of integer literacy grooming done the foundation’s outreach work to students.

“Through RDOF, Spectrum is making a multiyear concern to widen gigabit broadband networks to unserved communities crossed America,” said Tom Yates, Vice President, of Construction FO Rural Build. “Our committedness is making it imaginable to present the high-value broadband, mobile, TV and dependable services present disposable successful Franklin County. We are providing superior connectivity to section residents and tiny businesses astatine highly competitory prices, backed by an enactment committed to craftsmanship and service.”

Franklin County Economic Development Director John Palmer said the region is ample with precise hilly terrain and debased colonisation density adding to the complexity of expanding Charter’s web to agrarian and unserved parts of the county.

He applauds Charter for its efforts to conscionable the challenges it is facing done the operation process for the betterment of the county.

“As a effect of Charter Communications/ Spectrum being awarded ample areas of Franklin County successful the FCC RDOF reverse auction, we volition person improved high-speed net work for galore of our citizens that had small anticipation of those connections,” Palmer said.

The Franklin County Commissioners invited caller broadband entree to residents, which opens the doorway for pupil and concern occurrence successful the county.

“We spot the installation of high-speed net connections successful the region to beryllium a large vantage for our citizens,” said Commissioners Tom Linkel, Gerald Wendel, and Tom Wilson successful a statement. “This work is nary longer a luxury, but a necessity for the occurrence of our schools and concern economy.”