Griswold Cooperative Telephone Company
is proud to be a locally owned company. We also enjoy being a part of
the community and showcasing community events.
Broadband Network Evolution Project
"Fiber To The Home"
After many months of planning, the Board of Directors
and Staff are pleased to announce our Broadband Network Evolution
Project.
The end of December, Griswold Cooperative started the
engineering and installation process of an advanced Broadband Network,
that will result in what is generally referred to as Fiber-To-The-Home
(FTTH). This system will provide a platform for enhanced
communications and entertainment services long into the future.
Our customers receiving telephone service from the
Cooperative today, including all of our rural customers, will have
fiber optics connected right to your homes or businesses. The project
will replace the existing copper network cabling this is currently
used to provide telephone, Internet and cable television service. The
Broadband Network will bring all services to customers over fiber
optic cable, individually to each location. The fiber "pipe" opens
nearly endless opportunities for communications and entertainment
services because of the sheer volume of space, or bandwidth, which is
available to every customer.
The entire project should be completed by 2015, but
different portions or areas will be completed incrementally, at
different times. As these steps are completed, those customers will be
converted to the new fiber optic system and service offerings. For our
customers in Elliott and Grant, the initial phase of the project, you
are seeing our engineering firm, RVW, Inc., in your neighborhoods and
talking with each of you about the design parameters for each
individual location we are serving.
We have a committed Board and Staff that make a great
team at the Cooperative and our primary responsibility is to assure
that our customers have the services they will want and need, when
they want and need them. We believe is is our responsibility to have
the technology in place to meet the needs of our customers now, and in
the future.
Again if you will, the new fiber Broadband Network
will be capable of increased bandwidth per customer and will allow for
higher quality TV channels, and the continued expansion of Internet
speeds, data services and applications. The project covers the entire
Cooperative service area with FTTH installations. Rural customers will
be able to get TV services, which before have only been available to
city residents.
There will be more communication with you about
additional specifics of the construction and installation of all
phases of the project. We thank you for your continued consideration
and cooperation as we implement this major undertaking.
Learn more about The Great Disconnect campaign!!
The Great Disconnect public relations campaign is a joint effort between
Iowa Network Services, Iowa Telecommunications Association, and Rural
Iowa Independent Telephone Association members. An advocacy campaign
for Iowa telecommunications companies and the customers they serve.
Proposed legislation could damage rural telephone companies and their
ability to continue to provide quality Internet service to you. Learn more about The Great Disconnect
and what it means to you by checking out
www.thegreatdisconnect.org.
Griswold Telephone is proud to be part of a unified plan to promote
rural telecom for Iowa's future.
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The Griswold Community School District offers a
text notification service sponsored by Griswold Telephone.
This service will allow you to receive text messages to your cellular
phone from the school in regards to any emergency weather and activity
notifications.
The text service is free to sign up for, however
your cellular phone service may charge for receiving text messages.
Please contact your cellular carrier if you wish to inquire about
charges or to add a text message plan to your cellular service.
The text notification service is now available. Click on the
link above to sign up.
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