300+
across the country
200,000
for client partners
1.1 million
connected to world-class fiber broadband
Conexon Success Stories
Each electric cooperative finds its own way.
From the smallest, serving economically distressed communities or areas with just one to two meters per mile, to the largest, serving affluent, high-density communities rich in consumers and business members – there is a story to be told and valuable lessons to learn from the co-ops who have blazed the trail before you.
Conexon partners with electric cooperatives and community organizations at all stages of their fiber broadband journey. From helping to secure funding, to designing and building networks, to providing technical support and more, Conexon fosters the success of its partners. Together, we are working to transform rural America with mile after mile of fiber broadband.
Your success is our success. These are our stories.
When Remote Learning was Too Remote, Suwannee Valley Electric Cooperative Stepped Up
Pandemic Demonstrates Critical Need for High-Speed Internet Access in co-op’s rural Florida communities
Co-op Aims to ‘Bring the World’ to Northeast Louisiana with Fiber Broadband
Northeast Louisiana Power Cooperative recognizes need to improve connectivity in its seven-parish territory and 11,000 members for agricultural advances and quality of rural life
Cumberland Connect Reaches Major Milestones in FTTH Project
Tennessee cooperative’s fiber network build demonstrates super-charged growth and strategically scaled operations for broadband success
“SPARCs” are about to fly in Northeast Mississippi.
After reviewing the feasibility of constructing an FTTH network, the NEMEPA board voted in Fall of 2019 to move forward and selected Conxeon as its broadband partner, helping with design and managing labor.
Marketing from the Ground Up in Rural Mississippi
Collaborating with Conexon helps Natchez Trace EPA build social presence and local education, powers take rates.
Coast Connect has been working relentlessly!
Coast Electric was one of 15 EPAs awarded CARES Act funding in 2020, seven of which partnered with Conexon to meet the aggressive deployment schedule to deliver broadband to unserved and underserved Mississippi communities.
Connecting rural Texas in under three years.
MidSouth’s accelerated fiber-to-the-home project helps close the digital divide, enabling rural areas to flourish as other co-ops take note.
“Fiber fixes everything.” Pierce Pepin Cooperative Services prepares to transform western Wisconsin with broadband buildout
In additional to the feasibility study and business planning, the co-op has engaged Conexon for network design, project management, and construction services.
Petit Jean Electric Cooperative’s fiber-to-the-home project poised to reach profitability in 2 years instead of 20 with RDOF funding
Petit Jean Electric Cooperative’s fiber-to-the-home project poised to reach profitability in 2 years instead of 20 with RDOF funding.
Coos-Curry Electric Cooperative in southern Oregon a beacon for communities with introduction of broadband that ‘fits the co-op spirit’
The mountainous terrain along the Pacific Ocean wasn’t going to make it easy to build the 1,400 miles of fiber needed to bring broadband service to these coastal towns. But the electric co-op’s leadership knew it was time.
‘Lightbulb moments’ power Tri-County EMC’s decision to build 1,600-mile FTTH network
The initial response revealed 98% of members were interested either in signing up automatically or considering a switch because current service wasn’t doing enough, or priced too high.
Oklahoma’s Central Rural Electric Cooperative answers the need with fiber-to-the-home internet
Making a difference in the lives of its members is something Central Rural Electric Cooperative seeks to accomplish every day.
In less than one year, Pearl River Valley Electric Power Association shifted from no plans for broadband to establishing fiber entity for Gigabit-capable FTTH network in south central Mississippi
Pearl River Valley Electric Power Association in south central Mississippi wasn’t even considering entering the fiber broadband market one year ago. Its membership had been polled without much interest, and a past feasibility study was not positive.
Presque Isle Electric & Gas Co-op expands role as trusted community partner in northeast Michigan with construction of a 3,220-mile high-speed fiber broadband network
“I view access to high-speed internet as the last, best highway that we can build into our region that promotes economic growth and sustains the economies that we have.”
Delta Electric Power Association to bring world-class FTTH service to the rural Mississippi delta region.
In the Mississippi delta region that Delta Electric Power Association (EPA) serves, the challenges of constructing a fiber-to the-home (FTTH) network start with the environment: rural, hilly, and dotted with irrigation wells.
Kosciusko Rural Electric Membership Corporation is transforming residential and commercial economic development in northern Indiana with construction of Gigabit-capable FTTH network
Kurt Carver, President and CEO of Kosciusko Rural Electric Membership Corporation (KREMC), knows the power his cooperative’s fiber broadband project holds to transform the communities they serve.
Rewriting the story of rural Oklahoma
Cookson Hills Electric Cooperative is rewriting the story in rural Oklahoma with a fiber-to-the-home broadband revolution that leadership hopes members will be talking about for decades to come.
Our Members Have Spoken – Bringing Fiber to the Home for Rural East Mississippi
The Facebook page captured it all: Rural east Mississippians are desperate for high-speed broadband internet services.
In distance, Columbia, South Carolina and the communities served by Tri-County Electric Cooperative are just a few miles apart. In internet quality, however, they are worlds apart.
From the superfast, big pipe service of a major city to the spotty reliability, long outages and poky speeds of underserved rural communities, a 10-minute drive clearly illustrates the Digital Divide.
When Mississippi law changed in 2019, allowing electric power associations to deliver broadband services, Monroe County Electric Power Association (EPA) quickly initiated a study to determine the feasibility of offering service.
The initial take rate projections, however, weren’t encouraging – under 30%. Knowing that need was great in their area, General Manager Barry Rowland and his team took the additional step of asking members directly about their interest.