McDonough Telephone Cooperative Bill Buchanan, President/CEO
McDonough Telephone Incorporated in 1951 Rural Cooperative serving rural communities in a six county area. Western Illinois - Colchester 4000 active members 11 Board of Directors 30 Employees
McDonough Telephone Digital Switching installed in the mid 1980’s Internet Service Provider in % Broadband Availability in 2002 IPTV Service introduced in 2004 FTTH Deployment in 2007
FTTH Non-Traditional Approach (farms first) Density of approx. 2 homes per mile GPON Technology Connecting to additional carriers for backhaul purposes and additional redundancy
Why FTTH for us? We believe the future of our revenues will be application driven Cooperative principles (#7 concern for community) Competitive positioning Bandwidth Demand on existing services Economics ?
Installation of Duct
Fiber Blower
Fiber Drop Installation