2024 Rural Fiber-Optic Expansion

Responses Due: July 15th, 2024

2024 Rural Fiber-Optic Expansion

Responses Due:   July 15th, 2024

June 28th, 2024

Dear Future Skywave Customer,

Great news! Skywave is bringing the world’s fastest Internet technology – pure fiber Internet – to your rural neighborhood.

To complete this Fiber Build with a FREE Fiber Drop to your property at Location_Address, our technicians and partners will need contact information and permission to access your property.
A Fiber Drop is installation of the underground cable from the access vault near the road to the side of your house. This FREE Fiber Drop will replace your current Skywave Fixed-Wireless Internet with the fastest, most affordable, and reliable high-speed internet available. It also ensures that you and future homeowners have access to the latest in fiber technology.

The work will be completed at no cost to you, and you don’t need to be home while it’s happening, but we do need permission by July 15th, 2024, to ensure this work can be finished before we leave your area.

Expected Construction Process

Step 1: DESIGN
Right now, we are
acquiring public & private permissions and designing the fiber-optic network and routes to provide
fiber-to-the-premises
in your new fiber neighborhood.

Step 2: BUILD
We schedule
Site Surveys of each property and the fiber-optic line is installed underground in public right of ways, as well as to authorized individual properties FREE as part of this new rural fiber build.

Step 3: TEST
Our technicians
access each fiber vault
or pedestal to splice
the fiber lines and
then test the connections
to ensure fast, accurate, & symmetrical speeds.

Step 4: CONNECT
For current & new
customers with Skywave internet and/or phone service, we connect and test the fiber line to your property.

Step 5: INSTALL
We will call you to schedule in-home installation.

Giving permission for this FREE Fiber Drop simply ensures you and future homeowners can access fiber technology if ever desired. There is no requirement to sign up for this work or any services now or in the future. However, we would appreciate you contacting us about your property, even with a refusal, so we are sure we don’t miss anyone.

Learn more and confirm your property & contact information via the enclosed form, by visiting skywaveconnect.com/rural-fiber, or scanning the QR code in this letter. Please contact our office at 402-372-1975 with any questions.

The information we are collecting is property address, owner and tenant name, phone number, email. Please provide any other notes you feel are important.

Contact our office for more information on assistance available to help lower the cost of phone or internet services.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Ryan Kuester, General Manager

This project is being administered through the Nebraska Broadband Bridge Program, supported in whole or part by the American Rescue Plan Act Coronavirus Capital Projects Fund, award number CPFFN0183, a federal award granted to the State of Nebraska by the U.S. Department of the Treasury.