AIKEN, S.C., Feb. 12, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- As part of
AT&T's continuing efforts to drive economic development and
investment in South Carolina,
AT&T* and representatives from Sage Mill Industrial Park and
Aiken's Economic Development
Partnership (EDP) today announced that Sage Mill Industrial Park
has been designated AT&T Fiber Ready. It is the first
business park in the county to receive AT&T's Fiber Ready
designation.
The announcement comes a month after AT&T said that more
than 23,000 business customer locations have been added to the
fiber network in the past three years.
"In an international economy, high-speed broadband can help
local businesses go head-to-head with competitors from any corner
of the globe and succeed," said Aiken County Council Chairman
Ronnie Young. "This designation can
be a tremendous asset in our ongoing efforts to attract innovative,
high-tech, high-paying jobs. We're a great area, with
world-class connections, and we're open for business."
In today's world, connectivity is vital to new employers and
businesses of every type. The AT&T Fiber Ready designation
helps economic development leaders more effectively position their
communities for site selection by emphasizing the availability of
high-speed, fiber-based services.
The AT&T fiber network provides the bandwidth needed to
support data intensive services such as video, collaboration, cloud
services and more through products such as Ethernet, Virtual
Private Networking, Managed Internet Service, AT&T
GigaPowerSM and AT&T Business Fiber. Customers can
complement their high-speed Internet with network security options
and online backup to help protect and virtualize their
business-critical information.
"The availability of fiber-optic facilities and high-speed
communications capabilities is one of the key checkpoints when a
business is considering a site for relocation or expansion," said
Will Williams, President/CEO of the
EDP. "This Fiber Ready designation will be a valuable tool as
we continue to aggressively recruit businesses that depend upon
state-of-the art communications."
In January, AT&T announced that it had added 1 million
additional business customer locations – including nearly 14,000 in
the state of South Carolina – to
its fiber network since 2012 when the company began its aggressive
fiber expansion program. The expansion helped extend the AT&T
U.S. fiber network another 76,000 route miles, bringing the total
to nearly 500,000. AT&T offers business customers
high-speed Internet products on its fiber network in every major
metro in the company's 21-state footprint.
"We are excited to recognize Sage Mill Industrial Park as one of
many places across South Carolina
where AT&T's fiber infrastructure is in place and ready to help
local businesses drive job creation," said Pam Lackey, president of AT&T South
Carolina. "Every day, AT&T's employees use our billions of
dollars of investment to deliver high-speed Internet for consumers
and businesses. Those investments are possible in large part
because of the smart, pro-investment policies championed by our
state leaders and by local leaders such as Chairman Young."
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