![]() ![]() With Conexon’s innovative technique, however, crops and the farmland were left unharmed while closing the digital divide. In 2021, the EMC partnered with Conexon Connect to launch the journey that will result in a nearly $40 million, 1,500-mile FTTH network to provide high-speed internet to all 4,800 members.Įxcitement around the MGEMC project buzzed as construction started, but laying fiber on farmland while crops were growing wasn’t an easy task. Given the cooperative’s distinctive agricultural membership make-up, it sought out a partner that could understand the unique challenges the EMC was facing and could help every step of the way. They decided to move forward with the project, while searching for a partner to help with a project of the magnitude needed to serve 100% of EMC members. “There’s such an apparent need in our community and we’ve seen it.”Īfter research, Crenshaw and the EMC team quickly decided it was going to bring broadband to its members even if the funding wasn’t secured. “One of the big issues we have in our territory is unreliable service,” said Sylandi Brown, MGEMC Marketing and Communications Specialist. Middle Georgia EMC (MGEMC) serves extremely rural, residential farming communities in central Georgia and faces several challenges when it comes to internet in its communities. This moment was just one of many Crenshaw recalled that sparked the EMC to begin exploring how to bring broadband to its members. “It wasn’t a year later we were introducing our fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) project.” “I was at a restaurant and one of our customers mentioned to me ‘Why don’t you all do broadband internet? You all brought electricity to us in the 1930s, you all could be the answer,’” Randy Crenshaw, President and CEO of Middle Georgia EMC, recounted about the EMC’s member need for high-speed internet. Middle Georgia EMC partners with Conexon Connect to bring fiber to the home to rural residential farming communities across central Georgia. ![]()
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