JULY 2019 | VOL 17 ISSUE 7

Friday, October 4 | 7:00 p.m.Odell Williamson Auditorium

Brunswick Community College

ATMC Presents the Town of Oak Island withSmart Rural Community Signs

ATMC’s 62nd Annual Meeting

The Town of Oak Island is the newest recipient of the Smart Rural Community designation presented by ATMC. The Smart Rural Community designation, given by the NTCA – The Rural Broadband Association, highlights member projects which make rural communities vibrant places to live and do business through the implementation of innovative broadband-enabled solutions. Oak Island received this recognition because of ATMC’s $12.5 million dollar investmentwhich provided more than 7,000 homes and businesses with access to Gigabit broadband speeds over a fiber optic connection.

“The Town of Oak Island is thrilled that ATMC has made this investment in our community,” commented

Mayor Cin Brochure. “We know thatour residents and businesses willbenefit greatly from the high speed internet provided by ATMC.” In addition to Oak Island, ATMCrecognized Ocean Isle Beach and Shallotte with the Smart Rural Community designation and will soon do the same for Holden Beach, Calabash and Seaside. For more information about what

ATMC is doing to increase access tobroadband in Brunswick County, visit atmc.com or call 910-754-4311.

ATMC’s Victoria Bellamy presents Mayor Cin Brochure with a Smart Rural Community sign

FOCUS Fiber Optic Service Now Available to Many on Holden Beach

Only five phases of construction remain before work to replace the aging copper telephone lines on Holden Beach with more reliable fiber optic lines is complete. Residents and businesses between Serenity Lane on the east end of the island and Sand Dollar Drive on the west end of the island now have access to FOCUS fiber optics with speeds of up to 1Gig. Work on the island is scheduled to be completed by early fall and existing

customers are encouraged to convert their ATMC services over to fiber optics as soon as it becomes

available at their address. ATMC also recently completed the fiber optic upgrade on Ocean Isle Beach and is encouraging residents and businesses there to convert over to the network. For more information or to check the construction progress on the island, visit www.iwantatmc.com.

ATMC CONNECTING YOU

Faster Speeds Available in Town Creek and Winnabow As part of Project 2019, faster internet with speeds of up to 300Mbps is now available to residents in Town Creek and Winnabow. Areas in the nearby communities of Mill Creek and Funston will have access to faster speeds in the coming weeks and work is already underway to upgrade the communities of Exum, Kingtown, Thomasboro and Hickman’s Crossroads. “Most customers living within the Project 2019 upgraded areas have already moved away from the older copper network that had been used to provide phone and internet service. They wanted to take advantage of faster internet speeds,” said ATMC CEO Keith Holden.

“Copper is not capable of delivering the type of service that today’s customers demand, that’s why ATMC has begun the process of converting customers to newer technology where it is available and retiring the dated copper network,” added Holden. To find out if faster internet service is already available at your location, visit www.atmc.com/project2019 or call customer care at 910-754-4311.

Connect to the ATMC Telephone Directory Anytime, Anywhere Take the ATMC Telephone Directory with you by using the ATMC Search mobile app wherever you go. It’s the easiest way to access the ATMC Telephone Directory anytime, anywhere. Conduct a quick search using popular categories like restaurants, banks, real estate, pizza and more. Map every listing with distance from your current location and get driving directions. Best of all it is free! Download it today from the Apple App Store or Google Play Store.

New Directories are Here

Recycle Your Old Directory at Any of Our Convenient Locations

ATMC’s new telephone directories are being delivered to our customers in Brunswick and Columbus counties. We want to remind everyone to recycle your old directories by bringing them into any ATMC retail location. Our annual telephone directory recycling drive will be held through August 16th.

Shallotte640 Whiteville Road

Retail stores are open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Sunset BeachThe Village at Sunset Beach1780-9 Chandlers Lane

Leland The Villages at Brunswick Forest1201 Dickinson Drive

Fiber Optics Coming for Seaside Businesses Seaside businesses located along Beach Drive between Ocean Isle Beach and Sunset Beach will soon be able to benefit from ATMC’s fiber optic network with speeds of up to 1Gig. Business customers in this area will benefit from fiber optics low latency streaming that makes online collaboration and data services fast and reliable. Because fiber optics allow for quicker upload and download speeds it is ideal for cloud based applications and point of sale transactions. ATMC crews are expected to complete construction of the fiber optic network by the end of this year. Other businesses along the Ocean Isle Beach Causeway also recently received access to ATMC’s fiber optic network. As ATMC completes the upgrades in these areas, businesses will be asked to convert over to the new network. For more information, or to find out when fiber optic speeds will be available for your business, visit www.iwantatmc.com.