Highline Recognizes Eleven Townships in Michigan’s Menominee County for being Designated as Smart Rural Communities
24 Abril 2024 - 4:47PM
Business Wire
Highline celebrates eleven Menominee County townships—Spalding,
Holmes, Cedarville, Stephenson, Daggett, Menominee, Lake, Nadeau,
Meyer, Mellen, and Waucedah Townships—for being named Smart Rural
Communities. These townships represent areas in the Upper Peninsula
where Highline has connected customers to its gigabit-speed fiber
internet.
In early 2022, Highline was named a Smart Rural CommunitySM
(SRC) provider by NTCA–The Rural Broadband Association. SRC is a
national network of communities powered by innovative rural
broadband providers that are building a brighter future for
small-town America. The program promotes rural broadband and its
role in supporting innovative economic development, effective
education, efficient energy distribution and use, state-of-the-art
health care, and other important issues for rural America.
Highline delivers its subscribers 100% broadband, at 1000/1000
Mbps. As a result of Highline’s national recognition, all of the
communities it has connected to real high-speed internet will now
be celebrated as Smart Rural Communities1 in program materials and
online at ntca.org/smart-rural-community, joining a national
network of similarly innovative communities.
“Our fiber-based gigabit internet – that is, 1,000 Mbps –
provides fast and the most reliable internet available, which
Michigan residents deserve,” said Bruce Moore, Highline President
& General Manager Midwest.
NTCA Chief Executive Officer Shirley Bloomfield also recognized
Highline for this achievement, noting, “We are so excited that as a
Smart Rural Community provider, Highline keeps increasing the
number of SRCs in their area that are delivering the fastest speeds
in some of the most remote and rural communities of our country. I
applaud Highline and all of the SRCs for their commitment to
enabling cutting-edge technologies that drive innovation and
promote economic development in their region and nationwide.”
About Highline
Highline’s mission – to provide an exception al internet
experience empowering our customer to work, plan and thrive in a
connected world. We believe everyone should have access to the
most reliable, fastest internet service at a fair price, regardless
of where you live and work. Highline’s heritage companies have been
in the telecommunications business for more than 126 years and have
built, owned, and operated fiber networks for more than 27 years.
Highline currently serves the communication and internet needs of
residents and businesses in Michigan, Colorado, Georgia, Kansas,
Nebraska and Texas. Highline is building 10G state of the art
Fiber-to-the-Premise, lightning-fast networks to provide Gigabit
internet service to tens of thousands of homes and businesses
across the country that are currently unserved, underserved and
unhappily served.
About NTCA–The Rural Broadband Association
NTCA—The Rural Broadband Association is the premier association
representing nearly 850 independent, community-based
telecommunications companies that are leading innovation in rural
and small-town America. NTCA members are leading the technological
evolution for rural consumers, delivering robust and high-quality
services over future-proof networks that make rural communities
vibrant places in which to live and do business. ntca.org
About Menominee County, Michigan
Menominee is the southernmost county in the Upper Peninsula of
Michigan. It includes a land area of 1,044 square miles or about
668,000 acres. Nearly 80% of the county is forested with another
10% in agricultural use. The economy is anchored by a large
manufacturing base in the city of Menominee and agribusiness - most
notably dairying and forest products. It leads the Upper Peninsula
in dairy production and agriculture overall.
1 To receive recognition as an SRC provider, Highline was
required to affirm that it offers a minimum of 25/3 Mbps broadband
to at least 50% of its service area, that it has broadband
subscription rates of at least 50%, and that it is committed to
program principles of collaboration and innovation.
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