Fiber-To-The-Home Solutions St. Lawrence & Franklin Counties.

In 2011, Slic Network Solutions began a 3-year endeavor to construct over 800 miles of fiber-optic cable throughout rural parts of St. Lawrence and Franklin Counties. This fiber-to-the-home offering will provide High-Speed Internet, Phone Service and Cable Television throughout the following services areas:

Current Available Areas:

• Brasher
• Dickinson Center
• Knapps Station
• Newton Falls
• Flackville (serving parts of Lisbon and Heuvelton)

The next area to become available is :

• Slab City (ready approx. mid May 2012)

Areas that will be available in the future :

• Bangor
• Brandon
• Chase Mills (ready approx. February 2013)
• Cranberry Lake (ready approx. mid November 2012)
• Crary Mills (ready approx. mid May 2012)
• Dickinson
• East Dickinson
• Lime Hallow (ready approx. late May 2013)
• Limekiln
• Pine Grove (read approx. mid June 2013)
• Piercefield
• Plains Road (ready approx. mid July 2012)
• Southville (serving parts of Parishville - ready approx. August 2013)
• Wanakena (ready approx. November 2012)
• Star Lake (ready approx. mid October 2012)
• Madrid (ready approx. March 2013)

With the exception of the Brasher and Newton Falls service areas, these projects were made possible by a $33,161,409 grant and loan funding package from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Broadband Initiatives Program to bring broadband access to sparsely populated rural areas of the country.

Slic, a wholly owned subsidiary of Nicholville Telephone Company, was awarded the grant through the USDA Rural Development’s Rural Utilities Service.