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LightStream recognized as a 2020 Smart Rural Community Showcase Award Winner by NTCA-The Rural Broadband Association.
2020 SRC Showcase Award Winners Video
What is a Smart Rural Community?
The Smart Rural Community (SRC):
- Is an initiative of NTCA–The Rural Broadband Association
- Comprises programming relating to and promoting rural broadband networks and their broadband-enabled applications that communities can leverage to:
- Commerce
- Education
- Health care
- Government services
- Public safety and security
- Efficient energy distribution and use
- Foster innovative economic development
- Hosts educational events for:
- Communications
- Non-communications professionals
- Government policy-makers
- Administers an award program that invites and reviews applications of rural broadband providers for:
- Certification
- Recognition
- Provides resources to rural broadband providers to:
- `Assist their achievement of goals promoted by SRC
- Publishes original research and white papers that investigate issues relating to rural broadband:
- Deployment
- Adoption
- Use
Broadband powers smart rural communities accross the USA. And now – you live in one!
$10,000 Per Customer
Our investment
It costs about $10,000 to connect each customer to our network. Serving:
- Very rural areas
- Small populations
- Spread out houses
1 Gig! That’s 1,000 Mbps!
Northern Indiana’s Fastest Network
When it comes to the internet, no one beats our fiber-to-the-home network:
- Speed
- Bandwidth
- Reliability
Connecting Hospitals IU Health While Memorial and Pulaski
Our very first fiber miles reached 2 hospitals at opposite ends of our service areas in:
- Monticello, IN
- Winamac, IN
First Responders White County Sheriff’s Department
Enhancing Protection, the Sheriff’s Department:
- Has used LightStream’s fiber service for some time
- Recently increased their speed to enable their use of body cams