Jared Mauch had been working from home for approximately 20 years before the epidemic forced many office workers to rely on their home internet.

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His work set him up with a fantastic home internet connection when he moved to Scio Township in 2002, a rural Michigan community close to Ann Arbor..

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At the time, many of his neighbours were still using slow dial-up. But eventually, his bandwidth ran out trying to support his tech work.

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AT&T's internet speeds were extremely slow. To extend service to his home, Comcast wanted to charge him a $50,000 up-front fee.

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The 46-year-old made the decision to start his own fibre ISP rather than spend that much money and be at the mercy of an internet service provider.

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He founded the company in 2017, and in 2019 he obtained the necessary licences to begin to construction in 2020

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He also connected his neighbours to his high-speed fibre cables along the way. His company has expanded to 71 customers.

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He has already installed 14 miles of cable around the area with the aid of workers. Mauch is currently receiving $2.6 million in federal funding to carry out his work.

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