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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\u00a0We continue to make great progress connecting homes and businesses to fiber in our territory.\u00a0 As of last month, we have connected over1,000 homes\u00a0which are now\u00a0experiencing the benefits of fiber internet speeds that are capable of up to 1Gbps.\u00a0 With over 7,000 more homes to convert, we still have a lot of work ahead.\u00a0 We are currently converting 30-50 homes per week.\u00a0 Fiber fed facilities are now in every part of Chesterfield County and every day we are extending our network further.\u00a0 Our goal continues to be to reach every home in our service area and we are working hard towards that goal.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Because we are a cooperative, we do not focus on profits like other companies.\u00a0 100 percent of your dollars is reinvested back into our community through adding more fiber, additional services and of course, returning some as capital credits to help boost the local economy.\u00a0\u00a0 No other providers of telecom services in our area can say that.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Secondly, we are building a network that will ultimately be better than what you would get in Charlotte or other large areas.\u00a0 We have added multiple points of redundancy so that when we do experience problems or outages fewer homes are affected.\u00a0\u00a0 Even during power outages, our battery backup systems will keep your phone service up and running up to 8 hours or more.\u00a0\u00a0 Our fiber optic cable is buried in the ground and not hung on poles, keeping you connected during ice storms and hurricanes.<\/span><\/p>\n Lastly, we\u2019ve added extra capacity to our system to ensure that you have a good experience no matter how many customers may be online at any given time.\u00a0 With the increase in the use of streaming services, we\u2019ve teamed up with Netflix and installed two dedicated Netflix streaming servers onto our network to improve your experience.\u00a0 When our members stream Netflix they are streaming locally instead of from a server far away.\u00a0 All of these improvements are designed so that as your needs grow, we will already be prepared.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Coming up in 2020, we are working on new Whole Home Wi-Fi service offerings allowing customers to manage devices on their home network.\u00a0 While broadband and Wi-Fi are different, Wi-Fi service has become just as important now as your hardwired broadband connection.\u00a0 Some of our customers already have Wi-Fi extenders in their homes to extend the reach and strength of the Wi-Fi as more devices are being connected in homes.\u00a0 The need for additional devices is growing and we\u2019re ready for it.\u00a0\u00a0 If you are in need of Wi-Fi extenders due to the size of your home, or the number of connected devices, please contact us at 843-658-3434.\u00a0 We\u2019re here to help!<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span>Lee Chambers <\/strong>CEO \/ General Manager<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.22″ _i=”0″ _address=”0″ custom_padding=”0px|||||” min_height=”1088px”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.25″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” _i=”0″ _address=”0.0″ custom_padding=”0px|||||”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” _i=”0″ _address=”0.0.0″ custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.29.3″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” hover_enabled=”0″ _i=”0″ _address=”0.0.0.0″ custom_padding=”0px|||||”] \u00a0We continue to make great progress connecting homes and businesses to fiber in our territory.\u00a0 As of last month, we have connected over1,000 homes\u00a0which are now\u00a0experiencing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"\n Typically at the first of each month I like to provide an update on what we have done for our Members or some new information on a service that we offer. However, this month I would like to focus on our community involvement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As a company whose employees live, work and shop with our Members, it is important to Sandhill that we give back to the community as much as we can. Each year we participate in and organize several events to have a chance to serve our Members. This month, we began our second annual toy and food drive, with Blessings Resource Center, to benefit local families in need of some extra help during this holiday season. We are also hosting our third annual Veterans Breakfast in Jefferson to honor those who have fought for our country and allow us the privilege of living in a free society. This year will be particularly important for the employees at Sandhill as we plan to honor our friend, coworker, and Veteran Buck White who passed away after last year\u2019s event. On December 4, we will host our annual Santa@Sandhill event. We look forward to all the children in the area coming to tell old St. Nick what they want for Christmas while they enjoy cookies and a movie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On top of things like this, we also contribute to our local schools and community organizations that help make our county a great place to live. I had the honor of speaking last month at the Pageland Lion\u2019s club and provided information on what Sandhill is doing each and every day for our community. A lot of good questions come out of meetings like these and we are happy to help whenever we can.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As we approach Thanksgiving, we here at Sandhill continue to be thankful that we are able to support our local communities and look forward to more opportunities in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n P.S. Be on the lookout for some exciting news concerning FREE residential long distance and Gigabit fiber speeds coming soon!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lee Chambers <\/strong>CEO \/ General Manager<\/strong><\/p>\n","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shtc.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4719"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shtc.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shtc.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shtc.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shtc.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shtc.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shtc.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shtc.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shtc.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/shtc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Lee-Signature-300x100.jpg\")
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