RTC had to beef up its infrastructure to bring gigabit service to its customers.Ringgold, Ga., has gotten on the gigabit bandwagon.
Ringgold Telephone Co. now offers one gigabit per second Internet speeds in its fiber-optic service area, which serves about 3,000 people.
“At 10 times faster than our previous fastest offering, fiber optic Internet is more reliable and more consistent than [competitors’] services,” said Todd Harless, spokesman for RTC, a privately held, local telecommunications company founded in 1912 with eight telephones.
The one gigabit service, which starts at $89.99 a month, will let users stream more video and music on more connected devices with better speeds for the whole family, Harless said.
“Everyone can be streaming, downloading, uploading, gaming – anything – without experiencing any slowdown,” he said.