ImOn COMMUNICATIONS

ImOn COMMUNICATIONS. ImOn Communications CEO Patrice Carroll gave a presentation to the Dubuque City Council members in early December 2021, outlining plans for the company’s $18 million investment to bring fiber broadband internet services to all city residents by 2024.

The company originally announced plans to expand fiber internet to all Dubuque residents in 2019, estimating at the time that the project would take at least four years to complete. In 2021 the company already had begun some expansion of fiber internet in the community. In December, 2021 570 business addresses and 482 residential addresses have access to ImOn’s fiber network. ImOn intended to connect one-third of Dubuque residents to fiber internet services by the end of 2022, primarily along South Grandview Avenue. By 2023, the build-out was to expand to include Dubuque’s downtown and West End neighborhoods. By 2024, the remaining residents in the northern part of the city were to have access to fiber internet. When the project is completed, all Dubuque residents will be able to purchase fiber internet services, with speeds ranging from 100 megabits per second to 1 gigabit per second. Landline telephone and television services would also will be available.

Carroll indicated that the city and ImOn were applying for a $5.1 million federal grant that would accelerate the build-out to the city’s two lowest-income census tracts, connecting 493 businesses and 4,185 residential addresses in the BEE BRANCH area one year earlier than currently scheduled. If the grant was secured, ImOn would invest another $1.7 million in the project. ImOn’s employment numbers in Dubuque also will expand by an additional seven employees — two sales representatives, four internet technicians and one warehouse technician. Those staff were to be hired by the end of 2022. ImOn purchased a property at 3185 Hughes Court in 2021 to serve as the company’s warehouse.

ImOn also acquired the naming rights to the former Majestic Casino Ice Arena.

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Source:

1. Kruse, John, "Company Details Plans for Fiber Internet Expansion in Dubuque," Online: https://www.telegraphherald.com/news/tri-state/article_573ce86a-ce47-51b0-9536-041cafaa062f.html, December 10, 2021