Over 20 years ago, a small group of schools in East Texas banded together to support systemic change, attract industry and promote higher education partnerships.

These schools formed the SUPERNet Consortium to leverage programs and assets to improve a group of schools in East Texas.

As technology advanced, so did SUPERNet's need for a state-of-the-art fiber network.

Etex Communications was selected as the strategic partner to build and connect the 280-mile buried fiber project.

This partnership will connect 16 school campuses across parts of 6 counties in East Texas.

This partnership will give the schools access to a higher speed network with the ability for continued growth.

Etex is humbled and proud to have this opportunity to impact so many schools and surrounding communities. For Etex, East Texas is home, and they are dedicated to investing in its future.

As technology advances, we are starting to see a revolution in the way teachers teach and students learn. Schools across the nation are leveraging technology to deliver language and science courses that they couldn't otherwise provide.

Fiber Internet is an educational equalizer and a learning accelerator.

Today, 40 million of the nation's K-12 students are being left behind without the Internet access and WiFi they will need to succeed in the global economy.

The typical American school has about the same Internet access as the average American home, with 200 times as many users.

As a result, too many children are trying to learn skills for tomorrow with slow speeds from the past.

Experts agree that to enable students to take full advantage of digital learning, schools need one gigabit (Gbps) or more of Internet access.

Without these speeds, schools can't leverage the power of video to let kids learn at their own pace or provide teachers with the assessment data necessary to understand the needs of each child.

Fiber optics are the key to upgrading schools' low-speed, 20th-century copper networks to this high-speed future. Fiber is the only technology that can deliver gigabit speeds to schools and scale to meet their growing bandwidth needs for a generation.

And fiber doesn't just mean blazing-fast education speeds. By investing in fiber today, schools and libraries can dramatically lower their annual bandwidth costs.

Fiber is faster, cheaper and future proof.

Fiber optics provide the cutting edge in internet technology for today and the foreseeable future.

If you can imagine internet speeds advancing to 1000 times faster than your copper cable can handle today, you can be sure that the same fiber connection that Etex puts in the ground today will still be more than capable decades later.

Because fiber is capable of near lightspeed transmissions, it doesn't have the same limitations as the signals moving through copper wiring.

The bandwidth you sign up for is the bandwidth you get.

There is more to better internet service than simply offering faster speeds.

Fiber has been proven to open doors for East Texas communities in terms of education, economic growth, standard of living and more.

For over 65 years, schools, businesses and communities across East Texas have trusted Etex to provide quality internet services, and we'll continue to expand on those services well into the future.

Today, we have services spanning over 1,000 square miles with an efficient business office to serve our growing list of customers.

The Company's rich heritage and continued desire to bring the very best communications services and technology to subscribers is evidenced by the evolutions of the network from open wire strung along fence posts and outhouses to the underground, digital fiber optic network in place today.

Our Board of Directors and 110 employees take pride in the quality of service that is provided to our customers and look forward to continuing to meet future needs.

Our mission is to provide competitively priced, state-of-the-art communication, entertainment, and information services to our customers with enhanced network features that are generally only available in urban areas.

Already the internet provider of choice for 15 schools across East Texas, Etex has a reputation for meeting and exceeding the unique needs of educators. Plus, the 16 new schools in the SUPERNet Consortia will benefit from Etex's many student benefits programs, including scholarships, sports team funding, D.C. Trips, and other educational sponsorships and tours.

We are dedicated to hard work, honesty and vision. This is what makes us different.