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Scottsboro Reports Increased Interest in Fiber Network
Our Cable employees have also had a busy summer. We are experiencing a good bit of growth in business phone line installations and fiber optic data installations. Our phone partner Knology (based in West Point, Georgia) is doing a great job for us. Knology provides the telephone switching and long distance connections so we can concentrate on customer connections and customer service.Knology seems to have partnered with a number of muni networks to offer telecom services.
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