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Customer Maintenance Notification
We’ll be performing some brief maintenance on our systems throughout next week between the hours of 2:00 AM – 6:00 AM EDT. This maintenance is expected to last approximately 10 minutes while the system reboots. During this time, you may experience a short interruption in service if you are a NEK Broadband customer. We apologize…
Peacham Cafe Celebrates Becoming NEK Broadband’s 500th Customer
DANVILLE – A dream has come true for the little Cafe in the center of the village of Peacham. The new WiFi provided through NEK Broadband provides access to high-speed internet for customers and for those who don’t yet have it available at their home. According to Cafe board member, Betsy McKay, “This Cafe exists…
Customer Restoration Update (PM edition)
We want to provide an update after this morning’s fiber outage. With conduit repaired and new fiber placed, connectivity is expected to be restored this evening to customers connected to our Lyndon and Sutton cabinets. Throughout the day, we also learned that customers connected to the Waterford cabinet would be impacted due to this emergency…
NEK Broadband Customer Outage Notification
Town excavators hit our fiber this morning while trying to repair the damage on Shadow Lake Road in Waterford. As a result, the fiber connection was severed to the Lyndon and Sutton cabinets. Repair crews are being coordinated. We will update as soon as we have more information. Sincerely, The NEK Broadband Team
NEK Broadband and CVFiber Merge
Effective August 16, 2024, NEK Broadband & CVFiber have united resources, expertise, and a shared commitment to deliver exceptional high-speed internet services to our 71 communities. Working together, we will be better able to support economic growth, community development, and digital equity across the Northeast Kingdom and Central Vermont. Read the announcement here. Final Merger…
Customer Scheduled Outage Notification 8.15.24
A collapsing barn located at 1691 West Barnet Rd. in Barnet, is posing an immediate risk to our backbone fiber. Our crews are taking immediate action to reroute the fiber because of trees nearby. This will require a hot cut, a process to safely disconnect and reconnect the new route across the street. Customers across…
Request for Proposal: RFP NEK 2024-08
Environmental Review Please contact us at . for bid sheets, maps, etc. Maps are available to those who have returned a signed confidentiality agreement. RFP: NEKB Environmental Review Deadlines: Questions Due: 8/15/24 Answers Due by 8/19/24 Proposal Submission Deadline: 8/22/24
Customer Restoration Update 8.1.24
We wanted to provide an update on the storm damage in your area. Good news is that our Sutton and Lyndon cabinets are back in service with connectivity now restored for the majority of our customers. Please note that these temporary lines will be replaced in the future causing minor outages at that time. Fiber replacement…
NEK Broadband Customer Outage Notification (PM edition)
With some utility poles set, we are in the process of putting in temporary connections through a stretch on Severance Hill Road in Lyndonville. This will help bring light back to the Lyndon and Sutton cabinets to bring service back to the majority of impacted customers. With the immediate weather condition changing to heavy rain…
NEK Broadband Customer Outage Notification
We have an outage affecting approximately 125 customers in the Lyndon, Sutton, Wheelock, Kirby, St. J, and Danville areas, as well as small parts of Walden, Burke and Concord that began at 9 am today. Yesterday’s torrential rains devastated the area with homes and roads being washed away and literally into the backbone of our…
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RFP Announcements
Request for Proposal: RFP NEK 2024-08
Environmental Review Please contact us at . for bid sheets, maps, etc. Maps are available to those who have returned a signed confidentiality agreement. RFP: NEKB Environmental Review Deadlines: Questions Due: 8/15/24 Answers Due by 8/19/24 Proposal Submission Deadline: 8/22/24
Request for Proposal:
BEAD Grant Proposal Support Please contact us at . for bid sheets, maps, etc. Maps are available to those who have returned a signed confidentiality agreement. RFP: Bead Grant Proposal Support Deadlines: Questions Due: 1/21/2024 Intent to Respond is 1/20/2024 – optional – but helpful Proposal Submission Deadline: 1/24/2024
Request for Proposal: RFP NEK 2023-06
Fiber Distribution Construction Please contact us at . for bid sheets, maps, etc. Maps are available to those who have returned a signed confidentiality agreement. RFP: Fiber Distribution Construction Deadlines: Questions Due: 8/28/23 Intent to Respond is REQUIRED and is due by 8/28/23 Proposal Submission Deadline: 8/30/23
Request for Proposal: Contracted IT Support Services
The purpose of this Request for Proposal (RFP) is to solicit proposals from qualified vendors to provide contracted IT support services for NEK Broadband.
Request for Proposal: RFP NEK2023-01
Underground Services for Customer Drop Extensions The purpose of this RFP is to compile a list of approved contractors that NEK Broadband can provide to customers who require underground work performed in order to complete their broadband installation. Approved vendors will be working directly with the customer for scheduling and billing. RFP: Underground Services Deadlines:…
Request for Proposal: RFP NEK2023-2
Permitting Services This RFP shall be for a project or series of broadband network projects on behalf of NEK Broadband. Chosen provider will be supplying NEK Broadband with permitting services needed over the next 12 – 24 months with potential renewals. RFP: Permitting Services Deadlines: Questions are due by 2/15/23 Intent to Respond is REQUIRED…
Press Releases
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Peacham Cafe Celebrates Becoming NEK Broadband’s 500th Customer
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Community-based Broadband Providers Propose Merger to Expand Access to High-speed Internet
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NEK Broadband and North Country Career Center Launch New Job Training Program
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200th Customer Connected at the Alden Balch Memorial Library in Lunenburg, VT
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NEK Broadband Joined Senator Welch as He Unveiled a Bill to Extend the Affordable Connectivity Program for Internet Service
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NEK Broadband Is Expanding Service to Over 700 Addresses in Parts of Seven Towns
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NEK Broadband Offers Fiber-Based High-Speed Internet to Waterford Area Addresses
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VERMONT COMMUNITY BROADBAND BOARD GRANTEES TO TESTIFY BEFORE U.S. SENATE SUBCOMMITTEE
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NOVEMBER 9, 2022 NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
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NEK Broadband Awarded Nearly $16M Construction Grant
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RFP Posting: Fiber Construction (2022-13)
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RFP Posting: Fiber Construction (NEK2022-12)
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Media Release: NEK Broadband Lights up First Customer
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Media Release: NEK Broadband Begins Fiber-Optic Network Construction in Concord
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