By BRENT MARTIN
St. Joseph Post
Another internet provider has come to St. Joseph.
Metronet began recently to serve residences and businesses in the northeastern section of the city. St. Joseph is part of a $350 million national expansion for Metronet that includes cities in Iowa, Ohio, North Carolina, and Florida.
Whitney White with Metronet says the company can provide broadband with speeds from 50 megabytes to 10 gigabytes.
“Fifty meg would probably be used for maybe your small mom and pop shop that’s going need internet for credit cards and email, and such,” White tells KFEQ/St. Joseph Post. “Places that do a little more, work with multiple people online at the same time, bigger offices, they’re going to need more bandwidth.”
White says the company offers a wide range of services, designed to cover the needs of the typical small business to a large corporation.
“We have the capability to handle just about anything,” according to White. “And it’s all fiber optics all the way into the premises to. Some other fiber optics companies will go to the edge of your property or to the edge of your building.”
White says the company began by offering broadband in the northeastern section of St. Joseph.
“So that’s already opened up,” White says. “We have additional areas around there spreading from that location on. Those will be opening up in the next few months.”
White estimates it will take another year-and-a-half to bring the service to the entire city.
Metronet is based in Evansville, Indiana.
United Fiber, a subsidiary of United Electric Cooperatives of Savannah, expanded into St. Joseph in November.