Twin Valley Management, an Overland Park, Kansas-based holding company for Twin Valley and ISG Technology, is announcing its plan to improve the technological capabilities of organizations in underserved areas of North Central Kansas. Twin Valley Communications is among the largest privately-held telecommunications companies in Kansas and ISG Technology is a leader in IT cloud & managed services in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Missouri.
This comes on the heels of Twin Valley being awarded $1.3 million of CARES Act and Connectivity Emergency Response grant dollars. Additional investment by Twin Valley of almost $900,000 has been committed to deploy a combination of fiber to the premise & fixed wireless broadband services. Twin Valley Communications will also utilize the CBRS spectrum that it won at auction.
President and CEO of ISG and Twin Valley, Ben Foster stated, “There are so many businesses, schools, hospitals and local governments in these areas that simply don’t have access to the broadband needed to enable things like remote work, virtual healthcare and distance learning. We’re trying to fix that.”
Foster continued to talk about their strategy to combine Twin Valley’s broadband services with ISG’s suite of managed IT services and its data center offering to provide a complete technology solution for organizations in rural areas. “Unfortunately, many businesses spend countless hours stuck in the middle of a blame game when issues arise. The ISP points the finger at the IT provider and vice versa. When we deliver bundled connectivity and IT, the client knows who to call. We see a massive opportunity to create new value in the fiber-optic broadband, managed IT & cloud services space.”
The companies are focused on helping businesses in these areas adapt to the changing work environment the pandemic has created. Bringing together broadband and managed IT services allows companies to stay connected and focus on their core business.
In addition to providing Gigabit service to businesses and households in cities that are covered by the 15-mile fiber optic cable build-out – hundreds of households will have fixed wireless broadband speeds up to 100 megabits/second. This infrastructure will pass through multiple cities and will provide the foundation for future investment and even faster connections.