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  Growing and Upgrading the MBC Network In 2010, MBC was awarded $32 million for three projects from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Broadband Stimulus Program, through the NTIA/BTOP program. $16 million was for a project to connect all of the K-12 schools in southern Virginia that did not already have a fiber connection. The second project was a $10 million grant to extend MBC’s open-access fiber-optic network through rural southeastern Virginia connecting community anchor institutions and telecom providers to the network. The third project was in partnership with the Virginia Tech Foundation for $6 million that built a new fiber route from Blacksburg, Virginia to Bedford, Virginia. Thanks to MBC’s highly capable in-house project management team and our contractors, those projects were completed on-time and under budget. These grant builds were completed in 2013 and added 700 miles of fiber to the MBC network. In 2015, the Infinera DTN-X packet optical transport ...
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  MBC – The Company Over the next few years, MBC enjoyed rapid growth in top-line revenue, employees, network reach, and most importantly helped in attracting new jobs and investments to the region. One of the key drivers of the MBC business model was to operate in a financially sustainable manner. Grants were used to pay for capital expenses, and revenue from customers (private sector telecom providers) paid for operating expenses and maintaining the network. The MBC business plan called for cash-flow break even (operating revenue exceeding operating expenses) by June of 2008. Thanks to the early embrace of the private sector telecom providers who now had a robust, open-access network to use in Southern Virginia, we experienced our cash-flow break even in December of 2007 and have never looked back. In 2012, MBC took another important step forward in our continued growth as an organization. The membership of the Mid-Atlantic Broadband Cooperative voted in July of 2012 to amend our...
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  In the late 1990s With rural economies in Southern Virginia suffering major losses in furniture manufacturing, textiles, manufacturing, and tobacco production in the late 1990s, regional business leaders realized that the only way to stabilize the regional economy was to embrace a new way of thinking. The need for broadband services in the traditional economic development model had rapidly transitioned from a “nice to have” to a “must have it and more of it,” and the region’s existing telecommunications infrastructure was woefully inadequate to meet the needs of the business community. While Southern Virginia had low tax rates, available work force, transportation infrastructure, and substantial electrical power grids, the existing broadband infrastructure and lack of competitive access was a substantial roadblock in attracting new companies to the region. Business leaders, in collaboration with telecom experts, developed a blueprint for an advanced open-access fiber-optic networ...
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  April 26, 2021 (South Boston, Virginia).   Mid-Atlantic Broadband Communities Corporation (MBC) today announced the promotion of David J. Keller to Chief Revenue Officer. With over 34 years of strategic sales and business development experience in the telecommunications industry, Mr. Keller will continue to align both internal and external resources to advance MBC’s revenue goals. As Chief Revenue Officer, Dave will continue to oversee MBC’s sales activities and lead efforts to continue building industry-leading partnerships and enhance the ability of our customers to expand their retail telecommunication service offerings throughout Virginia.
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  MBC NOC 24/7/365 If you are experiencing service difficulty, please call MBC’s Network Operations Center. Our support team is available 24/7 to assist you with any technical issues. Phone: 888-796-0579 or 434-570-1199
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