What do your usual errands include? Dropping your kids off at school…returning a library book…visiting your local health clinic…renewing your vehicle tag? All of these have one thing in common—OneNet.

A National Science Foundation (NSF) grant is helping connect four new institutions into Oklahoma’s current dedicated research network. Providing regional universities with connections to Oklahoma’s Friction Free Network (OFFN) will increase research opportunities for more rural students and researchers across the state.

Last year, OneNet and BTC Broadband explored the possibility of connecting the communities that OneNet serves to BTC Broadband’s buried fiber optic infrastructure.  A mutually beneficial partnership was developed and now the school system, the library and businesses throughout Okmulgee, OK have access to fiber-fast speeds and capacity at affordable rates.