Utilities / Electric Cooperatives
Bridge the digital divide for your members
Rural electric cooperatives can provide essential broadband services community-wide for co-op members to work, learn, and thrive in this digital age.
Electric co-ops are uniquely positioned to provide sustainable and equitable internet services, ensuring that everyone has access to affordable, high-quality broadband, regardless of their income or location.
Challenges
Electric co-ops face challenges bringing broadband access to rural areas
Trouble gaining clarity on various funding options at the state, federal, and private levels, and receiving guidance on making prudent investments.
Maximizing the potential of a small electric co-op team without experienced outside guidance and support
Struggling to discover specific solutions that perfectly align with your members' needs based on your serving area, population density, terrain, and competitive landscape
Essential Service
Rural broadband is as essential as electricity
Since 2005, the number of work-at-home employees has witnessed a staggering 103 percent growth. This means that more and more people rely on fast, reliable, and secure internet services to perform their jobs, communicate with their teams, and access their data. Service providers can capitalize on this opportunity and become the essential choice for this growing demographic.
Broadband is a vital tool for remote educators and students, as it enables them to connect with each other and access a variety of online learning resources. With broadband, students can easily complete their homework assignments on digital platforms, participate in interactive lessons, and explore new topics of interest.
Educators can also benefit from broadband, as they can design engaging and personalized curricula, communicate with their students and colleagues, and access professional development opportunities. Broadband for remote educators and students can enhance the quality and accessibility of education, regardless of their location.
Rural broadband is a vital service that enables many people to access quality health care from their homes. Electric cooperatives are often the only providers of reliable and affordable broadband in rural areas.
By delivering high-speed internet, electric cooperatives empower providers to monitor (especially with at-home devices), diagnose, and treat patients remotely. This reduces the need for costly and time-consuming travel, improves health outcomes, and enhances the quality of life for members.
Access to fiber-optic broadband is a valuable asset for homeowners and homebuyers alike. Fiber-optic broadband offers faster, more reliable, and more secure internet service than other types of connections. Homebuyers are willing to pay a premium for homes that have fiber-optic broadband, as it enhances their quality of life, work productivity, and entertainment options.
Technology is transforming the world in unprecedented ways, but not everyone in all locations has equal access to its benefits. Whether it is a small business that needs to streamline its operations, a farm that wants to increase its productivity and sustainability, or a school that aims to enhance its learning outcomes and opportunities, everyone can leverage the most advanced and innovative technologies available in the market today, and empower them to create a better future for themselves and their communities.
The impossible is now possible
Pushing the extremes of outdoor Wi-Fi
Deliver extraordinary 1 mile Wi-Fi coverage—and everything in between. With long-range outdoor Wi-Fi, broadband service providers can extend the ultimate Wi-Fi subscriber experience to untapped markets such as large acreage rural communities, farms, camp sites, marinas, golf courses, and so much more.
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Rural electric co-ops have partnered with Calix to bridge the digital divide
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