Year End 2021

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We’ve had a busy year: we’ve expanded our service coverage to be able to provide high speed internet to customers in the northern Brown road area of Inyokern, we’ve more than doubled the number of customers, and we’ve implemented a secondary upstream line so in the case of a fiber cut on our main line we can fail over to our backup line. We are very proud of these updates and would like to share our plans for the future.

Ridgecrest is a very important area for us, we all live here. We wanted more choices for quality internet, which is why we started this company in the first place. Our next expansion will be to cover greater Ridgecrest. We have plans for the infrastructure and are currently in talks with our potential sites. Unfortunately there is a global chip shortage which will delay the delivering of the equipment we need, but we are committed to expanding in Ridgecrest as soon as we can.

Many of you have signed up for our waitlist many months back and are put on our backlog because we haven’t been able to serve your area, and we realize that we haven’t reached out to you to even tell you that. We are sorry for the lack of communication. We are working on implementing a system to communicate more clearly to our waitlisters so they have a better idea of when to expect service. In the meantime we are going to send an email out to all our remaining waitlisters to see if you would still like to sign up for our internet service and to see if we still have the most current address and phone number for you. If we don’t hear back from you we will assume you no longer want service and will remove you from the list. 

The Need for Speed

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Most businesses comes out of basic need that are lacking in a given demographic; a good Italian restaurant, an RV parts store, a gourmet coffee shop (not really, the market is flooded), and a good internet service provider.  This last one stuck with us as we were becoming more dependent on fast reliable internet. I mean, let's be real, how many of us are actually happy with our ISP? I would say a small minority.

That's how it was for me. My bills kept getting larger the longer I was a customer (so much for customer loyalty); random, regular outages that I would have to reset my modem to fix; blocky image quality on Netflix during the evenings. And what choice did I have? They were the only game in town, unless you wanted to go with DSL (ugh). The memes were so bad that even South Park poked fun at it.

Well, we got tired of complaining and started putting together a plan to build us the ISP that we always wanted. That's truly what it started out as, we wanted better internet for ourselves. Yeah we were selfish like that. But then we thought that maybe other like minded people wanted the same thing and would be happy to invest in us. And so starts our journey to the great unknown. We don't know what the future holds, but at least it will have more bandwidth.

-Mike