More than 200 guests and speakers from 30 states and Canada attended the Cooperative Broadband Coalition’s second annual Connected Oklahoma – Rural Broadband Summit in Oklahoma City on October 8-9, 2024. The CBC brought together rural network operators, public officials, tribal nations, speakers and vendors to discuss opportunities to better serve broadband in rural areas. […]

SLICK – Two high-speed internet expansion projects worth $4.8 million were launched Tuesday afternoon in the town of Slick in Creek County by the Oklahoma Broadband Office (OBO) and ecoLINK fiber services.  The projects, funded through $2.9 million in federal grants administered by the OBO coupled with $1.9 million in matching funds from ecoLINK, a subsidiary […]

OEC Fiber has received multiple awards from Broadbandnow.com in recent months. On August 7, the local ISP was awarded a 2024 Digital Inclusion Award for Digital Literacy. This comes two short months after being Top 10 Regional Providers 2024 for Fastest Real-World Speeds. These national recognitions cement OEC Fiber’s position as an internet service leader. […]

Pictured are Sondra White, Centranet; Sachin Gupta, Centranet; Lana Butler, Sac and Fox Nation Secretary; Jacklyn King, Sac and Fox Nation Tribal Administrator; Boyd Cummings, Sac and Fox Nation IT Director; Hunter Robinson, Centranet; Mark Prather, Centranet. AGRA, OK – Sac and Fox Nation and Centranet LLC broke ground on a $35.8 million dollar fiber […]

The Cooperative Broadband Coalition will host its second rural broadband summit, Connected Oklahoma, on October 8 and 9, 2024, in Oklahoma City at the Embassy Suites – Oklahoma City Northwest. The summit will bring together members of the CBC, summit sponsors and rural operators from across the region to discuss current trends, challenges and opportunities […]

In 2023, Indian Electric Cooperative entered into a lease agreement with Cox Communications, and the national broadband giant now is serving homes in the IEC territory.  The collaboration between the two entities has IEC leasing its infrastructure along the backbone of the system, with the cooperative operating as the middle mile and Cox supplying its […]

Life is now better for many rural residents thanks to high-speed internet and phone service as Centranet announces its availability to all Central Rural Electric Cooperative’s members. “This is an exciting time for Central and its members,” said Mark Prather, Central’s President of Fiber and Technology. “Centranet is open to all members and serving some […]

Colene Stephenson has owned and operated her own business, Everything Nice, a café, catering and floral boutique in Stilwell, OK, for nearly five decades since buying the flower shop where she worked as a young adult not long after having her first child.   “I had him not long at all after I started the shop, […]