If you live in the towns of Charleston and South Charleston, West Virginia you may be getting faster high speed Internet in your neighborhood soon.
Alpha Technologies will be upgrading parts of Charleston and South Charleston WV and residents should see higher speeds in their internet service and data services as soon as November. For some it might take until next year.
Hurricane-based Alpha Technologies, a West Virginia business technology company, is installing 35-mile of fiber-optic cable to increase Internet speed up 1 GBps in the two cities.
“Some folks are going to be turned on before Thanksgiving,” said Alpha Technologies, director of special project, Charlie Dennie. “We’re probably about six months away from completing the project.”
It won't only be Internet traffic that travels through the new fiber optic installation although internet service providers will be leasing some of the network capacity. As a matter of fact, Alpha doesn't deal in retail Internet to homes. They provide business fiber connections.
For the installation of the fiber, Alpha Tech opted to dig small trenches to bury the cable. Trying to get permission to use the utility poles already in existence can be troublesome and take months or even a year or two because some pole owners try to slow down competition. The trenches are generally a foot to a foot and a half deep using what they call microtrenching. Horizontal directional drilling will also be used. They plan to complete the project by early next year.
Some of the business customers have already requested a 10 gigabyte connection.
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