reasons we don’t want to get into the
electric business, because it’s foreign
to us. We wanted a partnership in
which we share revenue, but we could
utlise the NCEMC’s fiber optic
infrastructure connected to substations,
and in return we could do fixed wireless
or fiber to the home for customers in
rural areas.” The NCEMC has roughly
1.2mn customers across North
Carolina, with about 700,000 being
within the 17 counties RiverStreet is
targeting. “First, we get customers
connected to fixed wireless; that
shows us where the interest is. Then
we could then build a permanent fiber
to the home solution to those pockets.—
Jody Call,
Chief Technology Officer,
RiverStreet Networks“ We don’t just
want to survive
in the industry,
we want to be
able to thrive”
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