Fiber Groundbreaking

Fiber Groundbreaking In Defeated/Pleasant Shade

Access to high speed Internet connections grows more important every day. For businesses in Rural America it can make the difference between success and layoffs and loss of rural population.

To answer the call for advanced services, North Central Telephone Cooperative (NCTC) is partnering with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Rural Development (RD) and The Rural Utilities Services (RUS) to expand upon its high speed Internet network.  Via a new fiber to the home network, NCTC will bring very high speed Internet and more to approximately 15,000 households and 1000 businesses in Macon, Smith and Sumner Counties, Tennessee.

Groundbreaking for the initial construction was held on October 18th at NCTC’s Maple Grove central office in Lafayette. Our second major groundbreaking took place in February at NCTC’s Defeated/Pleasant Shade central office. And the third groundbreaking is scheduled for Westmoreland on March 18th.

Pat Bush, one of our first IPTV customers in the Defeated/Pleasant Shade area, joined us for the February groundbreaking. Not only does Pat enjoy today’s NCTC technology, she has a direct connection to our history. Her family, the Martins and the Kittrells, owned the original home-telephone company in Defeated Creek, which goes back to the 1930s. North Central purchased it in 1953.

“We don’t have an interstate highway system today that brings the traffic direct to our service area. The best way I can see how to imagine building a sustainable foundation for our economy here is through broadband,” said White. “This funding allows North Central to provide something even better — an infrastructure that will make this area very attractive to business and industry,” said White.

NCTC will continue to move throughout its service area, breaking ground on new fiber construction projects. Stay tuned for more news.

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