Consolidated Communications will do fiber, if you want to pay for a business connection and sign a contract. I'm told they are getting aggressive with pricing too vs the competition like Spectrum or Firstlight. That's really all CCI wants to do. Around these parts CCI has for the most part given up on their copper plant. Here or there a small project but most pole or attachment transfers aren't done, even when a car cracks a pole, they'll just bolt crossarms onto the new pole to hold it up, not bother to do the attachment transfer, and call it good for years. Aerial drops hanging down from poles, wrapped up around the base or in the grass. Even old guy-wires electrical taped to poles. Most of the I&R workers have checked out, just there for a paycheck, do the minimal amount of work so mgmt doesn't harass them, and that's it. No initiative, no thinking outside the box. And the ones that haven't are few and far between, are overloaded with work, dealing with unmaintained copper plant making do with what they can. This has been going on for at least 20 years, only in the last 10 really bad. Sad situation really.
