Alma Telephone Company Broadband (ATC) is bringing high-speed fiber optic internet to Pierce County with work slated to begin sometime within the next 60 days.
ATC’s Director of Marketing, Briana Taylor says the plan is to “overbuild” the entire existing coverage area. Part of a larger regional strategy, ATC has already received this upgrade and work is currently ongoing in Baxley, which puts Blackshear and anywhere else in Pierce served by the company next on the list.
ATC’s plans requires an easement through, or more properly beneath, Blackshear City Park, which means the required ordinances have been a topic of discussion at the city council’s work session and regular meeting (this edition went to press prior to the February 10 regular meeting of the city council), but more than just Blackshear’s downtown will be receiving the proposed improvements.
