Dumont Telephone continues to expand its fiber optic network to provide broadband service to hundreds of locations.
Dumont Telephone General Manager Roger Kregel tells Radio on the Go News what has taken place on the project up to this point.
“About 800 rural locations. So we started in 2022 and plowed some fiber connecting Dumont to Hansell and down to Geneva. And then in 2023, we connected from our Parkersburg office over to New Hartford and then Parkersburg to Aplington, Ackley and up to Geneva. So we’ve got everything connected now, all of our communities with mainline fiber as of the end of last year. And now this year is set on filling in the holes, the areas off the mainline, the rural areas of eastern Franklin County and southern Butler County. So we did about 200 miles of fiber last year, and we have about 200 miles of fiber this year to fill in those holes.”
Kregel describes what’s next in the process.
“We’re using Highway 65 in Franklin County as the west border, what we’re expanding to. We’ve started north of Hampton, but he knows it as Skinny Patton’s Road, and it’ll be eastern Franklin County from Skinny Patton’s Road down to Highway 57, and then working through going east through Butler County, the southern half of Butler County, all the way over to New Hartford. Eastern Franklin County, everything east of Highway 65, and then southern Butler County where we don’t have services today.”
For more information go to dumonttelephone.com.
