While many cities have access to high-speed DSL, broadband Internet services and cable television, there are pockets within cities and in outlying communities that are not served because of the distance from central offices or service affordability. Hundreds of towns and cities nationwide are in varying stages of developing fiber to their homes and businesses (fiber to the premise - FTTP). This is due, in part, because municipal leaders believe that their communities are underserved by incumbent carriers, but also because their governments can more cost effectively provide the service to their residents.

Municipal governments view FTTP not as competition with legacy carriers, but as an engine of economic development for their communities that can be used to attract and retain businesses of all kinds and sizes. They see municipal fiber networks as a way to enrich educational and occupational opportunities, provide affordable modern health care, become more regionally competitive, revitalize urban areas, and provide other benefits that contribute to a higher qualify of life.

Working in conjunction with broadband and telecommunications engineering firms, MasTec helps municipal utilities build their networks. We provide industry leading project management, design and installation services to plan and implement network builds. We use existing dark fiber backbones. We minimize construction impact by directional drilling beneath streets and in alleys. And we connect and splice fiber optic cable to head-ends, nodes, homes and businesses.

MasTec’s decades of experience in construction project management, and FTTP construction and maintenance services, enable municipalities to cost effectively develop and maintain leading edge high-speed Internet, broadband and telecommunications services for their residents.