PRTC wants to empower our customers with the fastest and most reliable network, Fiber-to-the-home will do this.
Benefits of Fiber
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When will FTTH be in your area? Check out the map here!
Fiber-to-the-Home is Coming to Your Area Fiber-to-the-Home contractors are in your area now and are beginning construction of the new Fiber-to-the-Home network. Our goal is to keep you in touch, logged on, entertained and communicating without complications. As a locally owned and operated telecommunication cooperative, PRTC has been on the cutting edge of technology serving you and your neighbors for nearly 60 years. We are proud to make our communities the most advanced telecommunication systems in Kentucky. We are committed to providing the most advanced products and services as well as the best customer care possible. Our knowledgeable and experienced professionals are also members of your community and take pride in serving you. We value your business and look forward to serving all your telecommunications needs in the months and years to come. We ask for your patience during this upgrading period and believe you will find the benefits of the fiber network will far outweigh any short-term inconvenience you may experience. This is an investment in the future that we feel will bring value to our customers and our communities. When will FTTH be in your area? Check out the map here!
When installing telephone cable in rural areas, Peoples Rural Telephone Cooperative (PRTC) sometimes has to be resourceful. Such was the case recently as PRTC began the first phase of fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) cable installation in Jackson County. As you know, part of Jackson County’s beauty is its landscape. With sometimes rugged terrain, steep hills, narrow valleys and forest land, maneuverability can be difficult when using everyday cable installation equipment. Howard Price, outside operations manager at PRTC, is responsible for all of PRTC’s construction and outside plant, and has several times seen the need for doing things the old fashioned way in areas where trucks can’t easily maneuver. PRTC has utilized R.C. Hibbitts’ crew and mules through contractors for the construction of aerial cable many times. On several of these occasions Hibbitts’ has found an unconventional, however nostalgic, solution to aerial cable installation in our modern times. One such method is that of using a mule to pull fiber optic cable up and along the steep hillsides and narrow roads. Price says, "In cases where pulling cable using trucks and ATVs isn’t a feasible solution, it is either man or mule. Manpower is often needed for traffic control and that takes away from hands needed in the pulling of aerial cable in tough areas." Challenges such as this call for a little reinforcement. Requiring only one man for operation, Hibbitts’ mules provide a unique pulling unit in aerial cable construction, not to mention an interesting site for passersby along local highways. There is always concern for the safety of construction crews in outside temperatures such as we have been experiencing lately and with Hibbitts’ mules on the job, other crew members do not complain and are quite happy to stand back to the mule’s strength. Hibbitts said that his mule, Old Bub, can pull as much as 8 or 10 men, obeys voice commands and stands quietly while not on the job. PRTC’s FTTH project is underway to meet the growing demand for high speed DSL service, video capabilities and the latest voice services. PRTC plans to deploy fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) throughout its coverage area. This significant investment in technology lays the foundation for an upgrade that will enable PRTC to rapidly activate HDTV video, data, and voice services over their new FTTH network. June 8, 2010PRTC'S FIBER-TO-THE-HOME CONSTRUCTION IN PREPARATION TO CONNECT HOMES IN Jackson county TO NEXT-GENERATION BROADBANDA growing demand for high speed DSL service, video capabilities and the latest voice services drives Peoples Rural Telephone Cooperative to enable its customers to have access to the latest in technology. PRTC plans to deploy fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) throughout its coverage area. This significant investment in technology lays the foundation for an upgrade that will enable PRTC to rapidly activate video, data, and voice services over their new FTTH network. The Jackson County deployment of FTTH has begun. PRTC has already invested over 4 million dollars in the beginning phase of this Jackson County FTTH project that will reach into the Gray Hawk, McKee, and Waneta communities. PRTC plans to begin offering FTTH to customers in those areas in late 2011. Immediately customers can expect to see contractors from Triple D Construction working closely with PRTC engineers. There will be installation of new aerial and buried fiber optic cable. Questions or concerns regarding this can be directed to the PRTC office at 287-7101. Fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) is the delivery of a communications signal over optical fiber from the operator’s switching equipment all the way to a home or business, thereby replacing existing copper infrastructure such as telephone wires and coaxial cable. Fiber-to-the-home is a relatively new and fast-growing method of providing higher bandwidth to customers. Connecting homes directly to fiber optic cable provides enormous improvements in the bandwidth that can be provided to customers. DSL modems rely on copper wire to deliver signals to your home – and copper can deliver high bandwidth only over short distances. Optical fiber does not have this limitation and thus is able to carry high bandwidth signals over great distances to homes and businesses. Only fiber-to-the-home can deliver the immense bandwidth that the online and video applications of the future will require. With online options of feature length movies for download, online gaming, watching your favorite television programs and news online, as well as the option to upload your own movies to email and the internet for viewing by others, there is a higher demand for more bandwidth than ever before. PRTC's FTTH will also bring expansion to the Peoples Telecom Digital Cable lineup, including HDTV and other features such as Video On Demand. PRTC wants to empower our customers with the fastest and most reliable network, Fiber-to-the-home will do this. |
