Business Connect - March 2023, Public Sector issue

Public Sector: March 2023

Introducing the Brightspeed Business Connect e-newsletter.

The Brightspeed Public Sector team has enjoyed hearing from our customers on ways that we can continue to build on our relationships and better deliver the telecom services you require. We work every day to earn your trust and to handle the most important details that affect your business. The following newsletter content is a way of providing new details and helping to keeping you informed. We hope you find this valuable and would welcome your feedback for future editions.

Keeping your communities connected.

A proper network foundation can better prepare state and local governments for a smarter, data-driven future that helps exceed their constituents’ expectations. Brightspeed combines a team of experts with enterprise-grade technologies to deliver next-gen experiences for your communities.

Technology solutions for Government
• An experienced team focused on delivering solutions
• Extensive local reach with significant local presence
• Reliable connections when, where and how you need them
• An expanded portfolio of collaboration technology solutions
• Financial strength providing more resources for our customers
• A relentless focus on the customer experience

Product update:
 

Scalable, high-speed internet service.

We know that staying connected to your customers is what good business is all about. That’s why we’re dedicated to bringing better internet to more rural and suburban areas like yours. Our brilliant Brightspeed business products are ready and waiting – and we’re not stopping there, over the next few years we’ll be expanding our ultrafast fiber network to even more communities.

Features and Benefits:
• Dedicated fiber connections with guaranteed bandwidth
• Symmetrical speeds available up to 10Gbps
• 24/7 Dedicated local business support

Brightspeed Celebrates Completion of its New Corporate Headquarters

Modern Offices in Charlotte’s South End Can Accommodate Approximately 300 Workers Brightspeed, the nation’s fifth-largest incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC), celebrated the completion of its more than 27,000-square-foot corporate headquarters in Charlotte with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The recently launched telecom company’s headquarters on the seventh floor of Vantage South End east tower at 1120 South Tryon Street is in the heart of the Queen City’s vibrant South End neighborhood. Brightspeed’s planned investment of more than $2 billion to build a faster, more reliable fiber network includes increasing its workforce. The company has already created about a hundred jobs in Charlotte and plans to continue to grow in the coming years.

Delivering the Brightest of Futures

Brenda Rapp, VP of Supply Chain, and Tom Maguire, Chief Operations Officer, recently shared the story of the Brightspeed fiber build and the partnership required of our supply chain partners to get it done with CHAIN magazine. In the article, Tom shares more about how Brightspeed began and how early in the process we began sourcing materials for the build. Brenda offers insight into the complex purchasing process, and the innovative approach she and her team have taken to try to stay ahead of global supply chain issues.

Brightspeed Awarded GREAT Grants for 29 Counties in North Carolina

Brightspeed announced that it has been awarded more than $90 million in grants covering 38,000 locations across 29 counties in North Carolina as part of the state's recent round of the Growing Rural Economies with Access to Technology (GREAT) grant process. Brightspeed was the top recipient of the GREAT grant awards round announced by the N.C. Department of Information Technology.

The GREAT program is designed to fund the deployment of broadband by providing matching grants to internet service providers working to expand high-speed internet access to unserved and underserved areas of North Carolina. In a highly competitive process that drew more than 300 applicants, service providers were evaluated based on the number of households and businesses they propose to serve, the average cost to serve those locations, and the speeds offered.

The Brightspeed SLED team will be attending the NASCIO23 Midyear Conference

NASCIO is the premier network and resource for state CIOs and a leading advocate for technology policy at all levels of government. NASCIO represents state chief information officers and information technology executives from the states, territories, and the District of Columbia. The primary state government members are senior officials who have executive level and statewide responsibility for information technology leadership. State officials who are involved in agency level information technology management may participate as state members.

April 30 – May 3, 2023
National Harbor, MD

Brightspeed supports the State of Wisconsin

Brightspeed recently finalized an IDIQ contract with the State of Wisconsin that will allow all government agencies, municipalities, K-12 schools, and libraries to order services from Brightspeed Business for 3 years. This contract allows Brightspeed to provide DIA and HSI services in 241 Wisconsin markets at predetermined rates allowing entities to bypass the RFP process by utilizing the State contract.

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