Sparta Wisconsin News – Lemonweir Valley Telecom doing business as Lynxx announced today in Sparta that it will bring Gigabit Internet service (a fiber that can transfer 1000 megabits per second) to Sparta’s Industrial Park.

Jim Costello, Lemonweir Valley Telcom’s CEO & General Manager said, “LYNXX’s mission is simply to exceed the business customer’s expectations and provide an extraordinary experience. The goal to provide the industrial parks in Sparta and Tomah with gigabit Internet service is part of this mission. We are leaders in supplying the fastest Internet speeds available in the world. This will have a significant impact on businesses’ productivity, employee satisfaction and the bottom line. LYNXX gigabit Internet can seamlessly handle uploading large data files, IP video conferencing and accessing cloud based services awarding the business with the best internet experience right here in Monroe County.”

This is big news for Sparta because at this time there are only 50 cities in the Nation that have Gigabit Internet service. By bringing this fiber into Sparta’s Industrial Park we instantly become a front runner in attracting tech businesses to the area.

You do not need Gigabit service to load Google faster but just for a point of reference. You can download a 2 hour movie in 33 seconds with Gigabit service where it would take about 25 minutes in the average household.

Lets take a look at a city with Gigabit service:

Just to give you an example of what Gigabit Internet has the potential to do. In Chattanooga, Tennessee there were no venture capital companies in the city of 171.000 people in 2009. In 2014, Chattanooga had 5 venture capital companies (with 50 Million in assets) driving tech startups to their city driven by the gigabit Internet service they were providing.

Listen to what Chattanooga’s Mayor said about Gigabit service. “You don’t see many mid-sized cities that have the kind of activity that we have right now in Chattanooga,” he said. “What the Gig did was change the idea of what our city could be. Mid-sized southern cities are not generally seen as being ahead of the technological curve, the Gig changed that. We now have people coming in looking to us as a leader.”

This is the potential Sparta now has!

Its not just the Internet that will drive the business. We will need community leaders with a plan to push this type of agenda for our community. As Steve Peterson, Monroe County Economic Development Coordinator said, there are many top companies already using this service in our state and now we (Sparta) will be able to attract larger business with this announcement.

What types of business use Gigabit service?

Medical researchers can use high-speed network to build 3D models of aneurysms to allow surgeons to pre-plan operations.

Any businesses that have their businesses in the “cloud” benefit with faster speeds.

One of the biggest reasons if not the main reason is video. You may see the fighting playing out on your tv between companies like Netflix and internet companies, and the government. With the introduction of gigabit service the hope is that companies will use high end services more often.

The type of businesses I am talking about here are hospitals that video conference about diagnosis’s. We may even be able to attract Universities or trade schools that can broadcast learning around the world.

This is a Huge one for Sparta, one we can’t wait to see how it plays out!