Monthly Report – July 2013

SandyNet

WiFi – WiFi Service continues to grow at a steady pace. We are continuing to make enhancements to the network as necessary to stay on top of performance issues. The demand that is being placed on this network is remarkable.

Rural Wireless – We are continuing to see decent growth in the rural area. This is a sector that requires much more “effort” to gain customers primarily because people are not aware that they can get service. We are launching some strategic efforts to bring more customers online in these areas.

Fiber to the Home – A lot of progress is occurring in the FTTH project. We have been very busy exploring several options and will hopefully be coming to council with a recommendation on proceeding in early September. The good news is this project looks to have a very viable future, connecting all the homes and business in Sandy is achievable within the next 9 to 12 months.

Business Fiber – We are currently exploring 3 additional opportunities to bring business customers online. It looks very promising that we will be able to provide a price point for our service that is attractive to these businesses and gives them a much better service than would be available by any other means.

IT Department

Remote Access – We have rolled out the new remote access system that was previously in testing and it is working very well. We are in the process of implementing some additional upgrades to the IT infrastructure specifically in the virtual environment that looks promising for performance and feature enhancements.