Cyber Broadband has provided rural broadband since its
launch in 2004. With our new LTE partnership, we are able to
offer blazing fast unlimited
service in most rural areas across our state.
Cyber Broadband began as an innovative start-up company that
provides wireless broadband Internet service to outlying areas
that have few viable options for fast broadband Internet
access. Using cutting-edge radio technology, Cyber Broadband
is now able to serve rural areas with broadband Internet
service.
The idea started in June 2004 when Mr. Jay Fuller, owner of
Advanced Computer Solutions, began evaluating ways to deliver
broadband internet to rural areas. Advanced Computer had
several clients in which telephone and cable companies seemed
to have no interest in providing service.
Mr. Fuller approached several personnel at an internet cafe he
performed network services for, Cyber Domain, as well as
several of his long time friends about the idea and the group
worked together to form Cyber Broadband, Inc.
In July 2004, Raymond Pierce completed extensive research into
the concept which grew out of "WIMAX" hype in magazines and
press at the time - and recommended technology. The first
pieces of equipment for Cyber Broadband were ordered July 21,
2004.
Extensive testing took place with this equipment during the
following month as Jay Fuller and Kevin McDowell spent a
considerable amount of personal time verifying the performance
of the equipment and actually completed an eleven mile radio
link off Hanceville Alabama's "Stouts Mountain".
Over the weekend of September 4th and 5th, Cyber Broadband
located equipment on it's first POP, or Point of Presence, and
officially launched with it's first install on September 8,
2004.
Additional extensive testing continued nearly immediately as
weakened Hurricane Frances and Hurricane Ivan blew through our
area with winds of 30-40 MPH and heavy rains. Our test
customers reported few problems, so we continued forward.
During October, work began to prepare a POP near Lewis Smith
Lake. This POP went online October 27, and our first customers
in the Lewis Smith Lake area received broadband internet
access!
During November and December, Cyber Broadband worked towards
getting a good sample of customers installed in our existing
coverage areas and worked to troubleshoot any problems which
arose during those months. We also worked towards upgrading
our "test" equipment for production equipment to increase our
existing coverage area.
These upgrades were completed New Years weekend, 2005. Since
the first year in 2005, Cyber Broadband has mastered the use
of it's equipment, continued to expand coverage across Smith
Lake, and began serving customers in even more areas across
Cullman County. Some of these areas include Battleground, Good
Hope, Dodge City, Smith Lake, Brushy Pond, Gold Ridge, Welti,
Holly Pond and more.
In 2007, Cyber Broadband bid on a project to install a network
for several buildings on behalf of the City of Cullman as well
as several hotspots available for public use. Cyber Broadband
was able to win this bid - in part because of it's wireless
backbone already in place.
In early 2009, Cyber Broadband began working to expand it's
coverage in east Cullman County - launching a site to cover
parts of Eva, Fairview, and Baileyton. This site was built out
during the weekend of March 22-23 and provides broadband for
the first time to parts of Baileyton. Cyber donated service to
the Baileyton Town Hall for a period of one year.
Growth continued in 2010 as Cyber purchased its first existing
wireless network located at the Village at Blount Springs in
Blount Springs, Al. Cyber worked with its former owners (Teklinks
of Birmingham) to perform a seamless transition for existing
Village customers.
That growth was slammed to a sudden halt on April 27, 2011,
when Cullman Alabama (and many other towns in Alabama) were
severely damaged by tornadoes. The transmission tower Cyber
used at its core network was completely destroyed. (See this
picture)
Cyber was fortunate enough to have access to other members of
the Wireless Internet industry via WISPA - who worked together
to get us back online in record time (See this article.)
Following the April 2011 EF-4 tornado, Cyber continued to
expand its network, adding coverage east of Baileyton into
Joppa AL and over into Holly Pond and Garden City.
Beginning in 2012, Cyber Broadband worked extensively with the
State of Alabama "Connecting Alabama" broadband office (See
www.connectingalabama.gov ) to identify other rural areas
surrounding our county which may have a need for broadband.
While continuing to fill coverage gaps in our network in
Cullman County, we have expanded to provide service in other
markets as need and demand warrant.
In 2013, demand for our service continued to increase and we
began to deploy service in Lawrence County at the request of
their County Commission
Also in 2013, Cyber purchased its second existing wireless
network, formerly called Smith Lake Broadband, which provides
service across Lewis Smith Lake, starting nearly where Cyber's
existing wireless network left off, making Cyber's wireless
network nearly the size of the Cullman Electric Coop's service
area.
In 2014 extensive network upgrades were performed to prepare
for future expansion and additional future projects.
In 2016, Cyber purchased its third existing wireless network,
Total Solution Guys (aka NorthAlabama Wireless Associates)
based in Haleyville and continued expanding west towards the
state line.
In 2018, Cyber continued to expand its product offerings and
to refine its customer service processes in response to
increasing customer demand.
We have plenty of satisfied customers who are happy to make
references.
We've worked very hard to provide this service starting in our
hometown of Cullman and expanding to surrounding areas and
we'd love to have you as our customer.
