United Telephone Company
The Leader In Tennessee, Taking Fiber To The Home

United Telephone Company – an independent, full service, seamless point-to-point public utility and local network headquartered in Chapel Hill, TN, has out run the big guys to be the first in Tennessee to deploy a newly optimized network in the area.

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1. What does fiber to the home do?
It is an advanced technology that transmits video, Internet, and telephone at a very high speed and in large volume – under a competitive bundle package that is not available in this format from larger carriers of voice and entertainment.

2. How does United Telephone offer it?
Currently, UTC is the only provider in Tennessee to offer fiber to the home via a Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) – the highest speed network available today. A few other communities are offering a similar service but through a slower network known as Broadband Passive Optical Network (BPON).

3. Is this the best network technology available – The Consumer Plus?
Technology experts agree that fiber will continue to be the most capable and secure system for delivering communications to homes and businesses. Fiber provides the advantage to attract business and residential development – ultimately enticing more jobs and greater opportunities.

• Fiber offers almost unlimited bandwidth for future networking needs.
• Fiber offers increased security because fiber is a light transmission. Tapping into “light” is much more difficult that into the traditional copper wiring.
• Fiber to the home technology adds $4,000-$7,000 to the value of a home.

Where Will Fiber To The Home Be Available?
The following is a list of developments currently slated to receive GPON, FTTP deployment. All but Overland Meadows are within the Nolensville exchange area:

• Arlington Heights
• Concord Hills
• The Villas of Concord
• Glen Allen
• Belle Chase Farms
• Woodlands at Copperstone
• Brookfield
• Bent Creek
• Ballenger Farms
• Bennington (formerly Winterset)
• Beaumont
• Overland Meadows (Chapel Hill, Marshall County)

United Telephone Establishes Technology Benchmarks In Fiber to the Home Network Development
Ten Developments Slated for Advanced Technology Services

CHAPEL HILL, TN — In what is the first of its kind in the state of Tennessee, United Telephone Company (UTC) has begun a full GPON “Fiber to the Home” network construction in several new subdivisions in Brentwood and Nolensville, fast-growing, urban portions of the independent telephone company’s largely rural service area.

Headquartered in Chapel Hill, Tennessee, United Telephone is one of more than 1,300 independent telephone companies in the United States. UTC became a true product of the community in the 1940s when local telecommunications pioneers wanted their neighbors and friends to have the same telecommunications advantages of their counterparts in Nashville — at that time a two hour drive down undeveloped roads. Now positioned in one of the fastest growing areas in the United States, with population growth rates projected as high as 61% from 1990 to 2002 in some areas, United Telephone continues to be a formidable industry leader in serving both a rural and urban market.

As one of the first in Tennessee to deploy Fiber to the Home, UTC is meeting the strong demand of today’s rural/urban customer. This highly advanced method of transmission allows customers full access to advanced technologies, including High-Speed Internet/Broadband service, as well as local and long-distance telephone service — all through one transmission tunnel less than a 10th of the size of a human hair.

In fact, home-buying studies have shown that Fiber to the Home technology adds $4,000 to $7,000 to the value of each home.

Fiber construction is now underway in Brookstone and Copperstone in Brentwood as well as Ballenger Farms and Bent Creek in Nolensville with a completion date of Spring 2005. These will be the first of many throughout the United Telephone Company service area as UTC provides state-of-the-art fiber-optic technology to every new neighborhood it serves.

“Everyone involved is excited about the opportunities that fiber technology offers in the home,” said Bill Kottas, with CK Development, whose current area developments are being outfitted with UTC’s Fiber to the Home technology. “The majority of the folks we’re selling homes to are in the age group that actively use computers in the home and see the plus and convenience of high-speed fiber options.”

Fiber to the Home is considered to be the telecommunications access infrastructure of the next century because it is provided over fiber-optic cables, which offers almost unlimited bandwidth in a dedicated mode as opposed to the limited bandwidth and shared capacity of copper and coax networks. Today’s broadband options provide a high-end transmission speed between 1.5 mbps and 100 mbps. This, in addition to the wiring specifications United recommends, installs, and even provides installation guidance for, will provide amazing speed and opportunity for customers.

Whether United Telephone is providing broadband/DSL connections to a barn for a local farmer to keep up with the latest commodities, bringing advanced television programming to a Bed and Breakfast where customers from other states can enjoy the freedom of a non-restrained rural landscape without sacrificing urban amenities, or connecting a local Rhodes scholar in England to his parents in Chapel Hill, customers in United Telephone’s service area enjoy the pastoral landscape of rural Middle Tennessee while staying on the cutting edge of technology —just the way they like it.