Tombigbee Fiber Revolutionizes the Friday Night Football Experience, Enabling 9 School Football Fields With Cutting-Edge Calix SmartTown Technology - Seite 2

“Everyone should have secure and reliable access to the internet regardless of where they live,” said Scott Hendrix, chief executive officer at Tombigbee Fiber and Tombigbee Electric Power Association (TEPA). “Our partnership with Calix continues to enable us to deliver greater value to our subscribers and members in new and exciting ways. We started by creating exceptional broadband experiences at home, and now we are on our way to extending those experiences to reach every corner and side street in our region of Mississippi. Continued innovation on the Calix platform has empowered us to redefine our legacy of ensuring the future of the communities we serve with the latest technology. We’re excited to continue this mission with Calix by our side.”

Tombigbee leveraged Calix Professional Services to advance their technical readiness while preparing to deploy SmartTown. This enablement includes onsite immersive training sessions, field survey-based Wi-Fi design, and SmartTown managed service validation to ensure brand integrity. To help align every business function to the deployment and management of SmartTown, Tombigbee works with Calix Customer Success Services.

“Tombigbee’s ability to leverage SmartTown on the Calix platform to cover nine football fields with almost no incremental investment or operational cost is exactly what we envisioned for BSPs—to be the innovation leaders in their community,” said Michael Weening, president and chief executive officer at Calix. “Calix platform innovation enabled Tombigbee to become cash-flow positive in only two years and immensely profitable for their members in three. Under Scott’s leadership, Tombigbee has created truly exceptional experiences that go way beyond broadband for their members, subscribers, and the communities they serve. The result is an incredible NPS of 91—record-setting in our industry.

“Tombigbee first built a truly exceptional managed broadband experience for families, students, businesses, and the community by leveraging the end-to-end Calix platform—including Intelligent Access EDGE, Revenue EDGE, and Calix Cloud. Now they are rapidly expanding those experiences through new business offerings such as Bark to help protect children—launched in only 14 days—and this recent expansion with SmartTown to cover community spaces, starting with the football fields. We are thrilled to see our platform enabling the Tombigbee vision of transforming the communities they serve at a rapidly accelerating pace.”