Everyone’s heard about it, everyone’s talking about it: Cambria Connected.
What is Cambria Connected?
Cambria Connected is the high speed data system that delivers internet to homes, business, schools, and government buildings around the county. Primarily, Cambria Connected is a public safety network, keeping you safe.
Who is Cambria Connected?
Cambria Connected is the network itself. Maintained by dedicated employees and with the help of Conxx, this cutting edge system is ready to help you 24/7/365.
Why was Cambria Connected created?
Cambria Connected was formed out of necessity. The public safety system in Cambria County required replacement. By adding data services to the public safety system, Cambria Connected was born. Not only can the system support police, fire, and EMS departments in Cambria County, but county government is seeing a significant cost savings in their telecommunication costs.
What is the Economic Impact of Cambria Connected?
New employers considering Cambria County as a business location see many advantages, including natural resource availability, good roads, a first-rate labor market, excellent schools and a low crime rate. Over the past decade, another resource has become essential: high-speed, high capacity data transmission. Traditionally, this capability has been the domain of the telephone companies who have invested heavily in the urban areas where most of their customers are located and where a reasonable return on investment is assured. Building capacity in more sparsely populated rural areas is expensive and the cost to subscribers must therefore be higher to recoup the investment. Until Cambria County, Cambria County, as a rural area, therefore could not provide the capacity required by the employers and businesses we would most like to attract.
Realizing the impact of this disadvantage on our local economy, Cambria Connected planners designed a data network and internet conduit that is both technologically and economically superior to its counterparts in the urban markets. It is technically superior in that it is purpose-built from the ground up to provide speed, redundancy, capacity and security to its users, as opposed to being comprised of older networks that are merely adapted to such use. It is economically superior because it is a non-profit utility whose income is dedicated to maintenance and improvement of the system on behalf of its subscribers, as opposed to generating pure profit. The bottom line is that high technology can now be added to all the other reasons a business would locate here.
Where Can I learn More?
Visit www.cambriaconnected.net for additional information.
