FAIRFIELD —
When FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski recently called for at least one gigabit broadband community in all 50 states by 2015, Fairfield sent notice to the FCC that LISCO already met the Gigabit Challenge for Iowa! Today, only about 42 communities in 14 states are served by ultra-high-speed fiber Internet providers. Because of our efforts, I believe other communities in southeast Iowa are gaining on this challenge as well.
Our company completely overbuilt Fairfield, a town of 10,000, with a fiber optic network starting in 1998, where every one of our customers now is wired for a one gig connection. Most Fairfield customers are happy to use their standard 100 mbps connections, but any LISCO customer can get one gig service — that’s 1,000 megabits per second — if they need it. Speeds of one gigabit per second are 2,500 times faster than the average fixed broadband Internet connections up 4 mbps, and that is in both directions.
Building on its success in Fairfield, we have already connected hundreds of fiber optic customers in Ottumwa, Burlington, Mount Pleasant and other southeast Iowa communities. We are already working with customers and community leaders throughout southeast Iowa to provide better broadband services — the kind that will meet the FCC’s Gigabit Challenge.
We welcome the opportunity to serve the city of Ottumwa with the same high standards for broadband delivery.
Linda Stallone
vice president
of sales and marketing
LISCO
Fairfield
Letters to the Editor
February 13, 2013
Fairfield meets Gigabit challenge for Iowa
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- Pay attention to safety concerns Time to make Ottumwa a quiet zone for trains, it would make for safer crossings that cannot be driven around when the arms are down. Then they can also concentrate on that instead of changing all of the traffic flow at Evans Middle School, opening cl
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- One giant mud hole to China Once upon a time, long, long ago, the neighbor kids and I used to like to dig in the ditch after a nice rain and make mud pies. We’d squat beside our hole in the ground with our long-handled spoons and take turns digging and filling our muffin pans
- Superintendent says 'thank you' May is School Board Appreciation Month. Today, the district held its Staff Appreciation and Teacher of the Year Breakfast, and last week was the Faculty Follies program organized by the Education Foundation for Fairfield Public Schools. I am full of
- Address mental health concerns for veterans Memorial Day will soon be here and we will pay tribute to our deceased loved ones. This Memorial Day, let's pay special tribute to our deceased veterans — like my dad — Don Butts, who served in World War II (Battle of the Bulge — one of the worst bat
- It's the death of a republic It's the death of a republic Our first president -- and founding father -- once said during his administration that "at best, government is a fearful master; at worst, it is a consuming fire." During the later 20th century, the number of defenseles
- Judicial system is out of whack
- LWV responds to letter The League of Women Voters — Ottumwa would like to respond to a recent letter to the editor. We will explain more about our forums that we co-host with the Chamber of Commerce every spring, specifically regarding the issue of asking Curt Hanson to
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