Fiber Optic Comes to Iowa Town | Daily Yonder | Keep It Rural

Fiber Optic Comes to Iowa Town | Daily Yonder | Keep It Rural.

How will high-speed internet get to small towns? One example can be found in Carroll, a city of 10,000 in west central Iowa that is being completely rewired with fiber optic cable. It’s an $11 million project that will be mostly funded with a $10 million loan from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. “It will be a total overbuild,” said Wesern Iowa Networks CEO Steve Frickenstein.

WIN officials estimate that Internet speeds will be 10 to 20 times faster with their fiber than what most businesses and homes in Carroll have now. Chuck Deisbeck, chief operating officer with WIN, says the company’s fiber lines will allow customers to receive many forms of voice and video, from television (with an unlimited potential for channels and programming) to phone service to new products that WIN plans to unveil soon. The overbuild is expected to be finished by spring 2010.