South Sound Business story<\/a> last September.<\/p>\nLightcurve has been upgrading legacy copper lines in Ellensburg and Selah this year, replacing them with faster fiber-optic lines for residential and business customers, and will do the same next year in Yelm. Lightcurve\u2019s focus this year was upgrades and new service for Centralia, Chehalis, Ellensburg, and Selah, which Vadapalli called a significant investment in improved communications technology.<\/p>\n
Lightcurve offers 2 gig (gigabit per second) symmetric upload-download residential internet speeds, 2.5 gig business internet speeds, and 10-gig and higher dedicated internet or ethernet speeds for business on its fiber networks. It also does landline voice, which still has applications for businesses and others, and it provides services for businesses to help manage underlying IT infrastructure.<\/p>\n
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Lightcurve is nearing completion of extending fiber-optic lines into Centralia and Chehalis residential areas.<\/p>\n
In mapping out improvement plans for the next couple years, Lightcurve sees opportunity for expansion in towns within a one- to two-hour drive of existing company service areas, Vadapalli said, declining to elaborate beyond plans for Yelm.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have a whole short list of communities that we\u2019ve identified right now \u2014 and these are all areas where we would be going in and serving those communities for the first time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
A healthy share of Lightcurve\u2019s customers are in the Tacoma metro area, but the company also has good customer presence in Ellensburg, Yelm, and Eatonville, south of Tacoma, he noted. Lightcurve\u2019s South Sound service area stretches from Tacoma to Eatonville, Graham, Yelm, Centralia, Chehalis, and parts of Puyallup.<\/p>\n
The investment in Lightcurve\u2019s network will continue, Vadapalli said of the company\u2019s business plan.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe other thing that I am really pleased about is we (have) really dialed up the engagement that we have in all of the communities we serve,\u201d he said, from financial help to employee volunteerism. \u201cIn most of these communities, you’ll be hard-pressed to go to an event and not find us in one of those events. \u2026 So in addition to obviously investing in network, we are significantly engaging with the communities.\u201d<\/p>\n
Assistance has included a financial contribution to the Ellensburg Downtown Association and delivering 1,000 boxes of crayons to support the Lewis County Back to School Supply Give-a-Way & Resource Fair to help students.<\/p>\n
Lightcurve, which has an otter in its branding for “otterly” fast and reliable service, also partnered with Odd Otter Brewing Co. of Tacoma\u00a0to launch a new Odd\u00a0Otis strawberry kiwi hard seltzer last month.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are just trying to find ways in which we can work with local businesses to promote them,\u201d Vadapalli said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Lightcurve technician works on extending the network for fiber-optic lines to a residential area in Centralia. Photos…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3161],"tags":[142786,643,142792,142783,142784,142797,142794,142790,125631,142795,3082,142785,142798,124848,142799,142801,81492,142787,142796,142791,142800,4097,142793,53,142789,16,15,142788],"class_list":{"0":"post-416391","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-anand-vadapalli","9":"tag-broadband","10":"tag-central-washington","11":"tag-centralia","12":"tag-chehalis","13":"tag-downtown-association","14":"tag-eatonville","15":"tag-ellensburg","16":"tag-fiber-optic-network","17":"tag-graham","18":"tag-internet","19":"tag-lewis-county","20":"tag-lewis-county-back-to-school-supply-give-a-way-resource-fair","21":"tag-lightcurve","22":"tag-odd-otis","23":"tag-odd-otter-brewing-co","24":"tag-otter","25":"tag-palisade-infrastructure","26":"tag-puyallup","27":"tag-selah","28":"tag-seltzer","29":"tag-streaming","30":"tag-tacoma","31":"tag-technology","32":"tag-thurston-county","33":"tag-uk","34":"tag-united-kingdom","35":"tag-yelm"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}