Will you need to pay to connect to Fidium Fiber internet? We need to hear from you!
There are two steps needed to bring fiber internet to your home or business:
- Bringing fiber from the road to your building, i.e., “installing the drop.”
- Activating internet service inside the home — connecting the drop to the Gateway modem for services.
How the drop is installed from the network to the house (Step 1) depends on whether you have underground or aerial facilities. Aerial drops are typically very straightforward, however new underground drops may require you to pay to install internet service.
In most cases, the “drop” in Step 1 — the cost for bringing Fidium Fiber from the roadway to your home or business — will be covered in full under Lamoille FiberNet’s contract with CCI throughout our service area. However, there are addresses that require “non-standard drops,” which will not be covered. Seven Lamoille FiberNet towns allocated some of their American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding to help with these non-standard expenses. We are trying to identify the need in each town so that we may develop a policy and program that fairly allocates available funds.
Non-Standard Installations
NON-standard installations are needed in these situations:
- no existing telephone poles or conduit and premises are more than 500 feet from the roadway pole or pedestal, OR
- there is a copper phone line or DSL line that is direct buried (not in a conduit) for more than 500 feet, OR
- the telephone poles or existing conduit extend for more than 500 feet but are heavily damaged and unusable.
These situations require that you install conduit for fiber or reach out to a contractor to install conduit for fiber (please see conduit specifications at Installation & Underground Service – Lamoille FiberNet).
If your installation situation is NON-standard, and your address is in the Lamoille FiberNet’s Phase I
region of one of these towns: Belvidere, Cambridge, Eden, Hyde Park, Johnson, Waterville, and Wolcott, then please fill in the form at https://forms.office.com/g/LVNtYN2qBp to be eligible for funding that will offset some of the drop cost. Paper copies of the survey will be available at town offices for towns listed above, or you can use the QR code at the right.
Note: Towns listed above allocated a portion of their ARPA (American Rescue Plan Act) grant funds to enhance broadband internet access. Elmore, Morristown, and Stowe had already directed their ARPA funds toward other expenses.)
OUR LAMOILLE FIBERNET VISION:
Every home and business in our territory will be connected to fast, reliable internet service.
OUR LAMOILLE FIBERNET MISSION:
To prioritize access of unserved and underserved addresses to symmetrical, high-speed, and affordable internet service – as soon as possible.
For more info about Lamoille FiberNet, go to http://www.LamoilleFiber.net.
