Verizon Upgrade Sets Stage for Expanded Broadband Service Availability in New Martinsville, W.Va., Area

Verizon Upgrade Sets Stage for Expanded Broadband Service Availability in New Martinsville, W.Va., Area

Residents in the Proctors Ridge area will notice an increase in construction activity by Verizon as the company invests more than $650,000 to improve service and provide additional broadband capability in the future.

Verizon is installing more than 11 miles of fiber-optic cable between the company’s New Martinsville central switching office and two communications facilities along Proctors Ridge. This fiber-optic cable upgrade will improve service reliability for customers served by the two facilities. The company expects to complete this phase of the project by the end of this year.

In 2008, the company plans to install equipment that will extend the availability of Verizon High Speed Internet service to the majority of customers served by the Proctors Ridge facilities.

“This project is another example of Verizon’s commitment to deliver a state-of-the-art communications network to our customers throughout West Virginia,” said H. Stan Cavendish, president of Verizon West Virginia. “When this job is complete next year, more customers will have high-speed Internet access and will be able to take advantage of the network for things like work-at-home capabilities, as well as other innovative advanced services.”

Verizon, West Virginia’s leading provider of broadband service, has upgraded all of its 142 central switching offices with high-speed DSL (digital subscriber line) technology. In addition, the company expects to have equipped 270 facilities, predominantly in rural areas, with DSL technology by the end of 2007.

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