Federal Communications Commissioner Brendan Carr (right) visited one of Open Broadband’s WISP deployment stations in Cedar Grove Township. He is pictured with Orange County Chief Information Officer Jim Northrup and Open Broadband’s Kent Winrich and Alan Fitzpatrick.
FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr Visits Orange County
In February, Open Broadband and Orange County IT hosted a visit from FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr, to address broadband in rural North Carolina.
WRAL Techwire also attended and posted this story.
https://www.wraltechwire.com/2020/02/21/bringing-broadband-to-thousands-of-underserved-in-orange-county-one-home-at-a-time/.
Commissioner Carr posted this video shortly after his visit.
We are expanding our Team
We added a new Area Manager to our team for Orange County in January. Alan Helias will be the focal point for all installations, surveys and customer service issues in Orange County as well as other counties in the North-Central part of the state.
Alan can be reached at 919-435-4194 or ahelias@openbb.net.
As we continue to expand, we are looking to interview candidates for Part Time positions of surveyors and installers.
Interested candidates can view our job postings and apply via our website careers page: https://careers.openbb.net/
Recent Customer Activations
In January and February, we have been installing new broadband service in the Cedar Grove and Efland areas and are now concentrating efforts in the Lake Orange area, Governor Hunt area, Dawn Drive and Birdsong Lane areas as well.
You will be contacted once service is available
Once service is available at your address, we will contact you to schedule a signal test to ensure sufficient wireless signal for broadband.
Once the signal level is confirmed we’ll set up an in-home installation appointment. A team of installers will set up the system, attaching an antenna to the exterior of your house in addition to an interior gateway device.
If we have not contacted you that means service is not available yet. Please be patient and we will contact you when we can schedule your address. We will provide as much advance notice as possible.
If your neighbors have not joined the signup list, encourage them to do so.
In-process Tower sites in Red
Current Neighborhood focus in green
Hubs and Towers:
Tower work: UPDATE
We are proceeding with our installation on the Crown Castle tower in Schley. They have given us a Spring estimate on readiness.
– We are getting ready to deploy in the area of the Schley Tower and are awaiting the final steps in the tower company process.
Once this site is up we’ll begin testing and installing those in this area. We thank you for your patience in the meantime.
We are also going to place additional antennas on the Hillsborough Sports Complex tower with additional coverage planned for Jan/Feb.
-COMPLETED
The Hillsborough North Water Tank is going through a formal review and approval process before we can install antennas. We are working with the town and county to file appropriate paperwork to get this approved. We’ve spoken to several of you who are waiting for this water tower to be implemented, and all we can ask of you is your patience as we go through the process. You will be contacted once service is available.North Water Tank .
– We are getting ready to deploy in the area of the North Water Tower and expect to be mounting antennas before the end of March.
Once this site is up we’ll begin testing and installing those in this area. We thank you for your patience in the meantime.
A big Thank You to all of our customers in Orange County! This is a long journey to build a new network from scratch, using fixed-wireless technology in a challenging terrain. We believe everyone deserves access to broadband speeds and our small company is doing our part to fill in gaps where the 50-100 year old large companies have not implemented.
Thank you for your patience and support, while we continue to develop solutions to provide High Speed Broadband to your area and we look forward to serving many more of you in 2020.
