Our inaugural True Broadband℠ service was provided to zones in the Hardwick–Greensboro–Craftsbury–Albany area.  

Craftsbury funding initiatives

The Vermont Council on Rural Development organized a process in Craftsbury that brought federal and state governmental organizations together with local citizens to prioritize and champion development projects for the town. Capitalizing on the work of the resultant Broadband and Cell Committee, the Town was awarded significant federal grants from USDA Rural Development and Northern Borders Regional Commission to build and own about 13 miles of new fiber routes. Additionally, the State of Vermont awarded Connectivity Initiative funds to Kingdom Fiber to extend the Town network by another 2 miles. 

Kingdom Fiber managed the design and construction of these networks and was named by the Town of Craftsbury as the broadband provider for its network. We have very long-term arrangements to "light" the Craftsbury-owned dark fibers as well as State-owned dark fibers in 5 NEK towns from Hardwick to Irasburg (communication union district, NEK-CV Broadband, subsequently assumed ownership of both the State network in the NEK and the Town of Craftsbury network). These grants and arrangements accelerated our launch.

regional expansion with RDOF

After we "got our feet wet" with this initial deployment, we followed with regional expansion in the NEK and central Vermont. This was enabled both by significant support from the FCC’s Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) and our collaboration with NEK-CV Broadband. You can check out the scope of our progress on the NEXT TOWNS and ROUTE MAPS pages.