Fiber Optic Strategies
for rural communities to connect and compete with the world.
Fiber Optic Broadband Eliminates the Digital Divide
Large cities and major metropolitan areas have a huge digital advantage over rural towns, municipalities, and county governments who are regularly ignored by national Internet providers. Smaller populations, higher implementation costs, and lower profitability put rural communities at a competitive disadvantage in bringing desirable businesses, workers, and families to their locale.
Fiber optic broadband delivers the fastest, most reliable connectivity available in America to rural areas at a lower cost than cable, DSL, or satellite. This gives local communities the same networking and Internet capabilities found in larger cities. This narrows the digital divide and levels the technological playing field.
Upgrade Critical Infrastructure
As critical infrastructure, fiber broadband bring many advantages to any market regardless of size or demographics:
Economic Development
Large cities and major metropolitan areas have a huge digital advantage over rural towns, municipalities, and county governments who are regularly ignored by national Internet providers. Smaller populations, higher implementation costs, and lower profitability put rural communities at a competitive disadvantage in bringing desirable businesses, workers, and families to their locale.
Government Services
Local governments are able to provide enhanced services to their constituents with video access to public meetings for remote citizens, secure online access to communicate and conduct business with local agencies, alert the public to ozone action days, or mobilize emergency services in a crisis.
Education
Fiber’s increased bandwidth creates better, more immersive educational opportunities for rural school students with access to media-rich digital learning tools that are more relatable and interesting. Students can collaborate with other students, educators, tutors, and institutions around the world — and they can participate in national and global online learning and cultural events.
Teleworking
Fiber provides the security and capacity needed to video conference, conduct business, and work from home. Fiber optic broadband networks provide teleworkers with faster speeds, virtually 100% uptime, enhanced security that is virtually impossible to hack, and are impervious to weather conditions.
Telehealth
Telemedicine is critical in rural areas where people must travel long distances to get to their doctor or hospital. Fiber optics makes telemedicine more cost effective and saves money while providing better patient quality of care. Patients gain access to previously inaccessible medical experts and specialists with expertise treating their specific illness or condition.
Smart Grid Modernization
Rural electric cooperatives are implementing fiber optic networks because they are more effective and efficient. Built-in symmetrical communication allows two-way flow of electricity and information with the potential of monitoring everything from power plants to customer preferences to individual appliances. Another major advantage is that power outages are reduced by an estimated 40+%.
To help facilitate this the federal government has allocated billions of dollars for fiber broadband initiatives.
To learn how fiber optic broadband can put your community on equal competitive footing with your larger big city counterparts contact DeepFiber today.