Broadband Availability
Live, play, work and thrive in the perfect dichotomy: A world of rural beauty and serenity alongside the convenience and opportunity of fiber optic connections anywhere and everywhere. That’s the advantage of North Florida’s ongoing project of region-wide, cutting-edge digital infrastructure. Through the foresight and initiative of North Florida’s electrical co-ops, residents and businesses now move with ease in every area of life, traveling on roads that are uncongested and connecting to the internet with gigabit speed. That’s North Florida: Innovation is in our Nature.
Thousands of miles of fiber installed
The transformative effort began in 2022 with the new fiber network The Connect, powered by Tri-County Electric, a nearly 2,400-mile fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) network which represented Florida’s first electric cooperative FTTH project. By 2024, Fiber by Central Florida, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Central Florida Electric Cooperative, had constructed more than 3,353 miles of fiber construction as it passed its one-year milestone. And the work is ongoing, with commitments to blanket the region.
Collaborative partnerships. Intelligent leverage.
To achieve such rapid results, the co-ops have partnered with rural broadband leaders like Conexon, which worked with Tri-County in creating the Connect, and which has managed network design and construction for Suwannee Valley Electric broadband projects. The co-ops have also been able to leverage federal dollars including a portion of $56 million in American Rescue Plan Act funds and a portion of nearly $500 million from the Broadband Infrastructure Program, funded by the U.S. Treasury’s Capital Projects Fund.
Local broadband providers
Fiber service is now available through local providers including: