“The build Pauline contacted you about is a 4-plus-mile build and will only pass about 50 homes,” Brickner said. ” ~Nate Brickner, General Manager, Bascom Communications “Lots of people talk about the urban-rural divide but we’re trying to do our best to make sure it’s the opposite. Money was now being directly reinvested into the company and there was no longer the worry of having to constantly increase the profit margin.īrickner, who grew up in Bascom and attended Hopewell-Loudon High School there, says that change made 50 years ago has allowed staff today to focus on meeting the unique needs and sometimes challenging requirements for rural communities. That move would make it possible to expand into new territory. Nearly 50 years later, in 1953, the company’s leadership decided to become a nonprofit mutual cooperative. I think we’re providing big-city access to rural people.”īascom Communications started out as a traditional telephone company in 1906. Lots of people talk about the urban-rural divide but we’re trying to do our best to make sure it’s the opposite. “We were one of the earliest adopters to start doing this. “In the 2003 timeframe, we started deploying fiber in the area,” said Nate Brickner, General Manager, Bascom Communications. The good news for O’Connor is that a small Ohio company has been quietly connecting rural residents in a northwestern corner of the state. Sometimes it’s a parent upset that they have to drive their kids to a fast-food restaurant to do their homework other times it is a small-business owner or agricultural producer who can’t grow without access. It’s something Connected Nation hears time and time again via email, over the phone, by letter, and out in the field: We have to go somewhere else to even get a connection. Thank you Bascom and whoever aided in any necessary funding.”
“This will enable me to communicate with my business from home and not require a 10-mile drive to my office just to look at documents or fax something. “Soon I will have high-speed internet service, never available before by any provider, at a very reasonable cost,” she continued. Employees at Bascom Communications take on many roles including digging trenches to lay fiber lines
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