Rural Oconee County SC, population 75,000, took it upon themselves to bring high-speed connectivity to residents and businesses, despite obstruction by a telecommunications giant.  Oconee FOCUS applied for funding through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) to obtain funds for the project, oversaw implementation, customer connectivity, and transition to OneTone.  Oconee FOCUS installed a 240-mile fiber optic network that has grown to over 350 miles. 

In 2016 Oconee County Focus signed an agreement with OneTone Telecom for a 20 year fiber network lease to buy.  OneTone provides a number of communication services (voice, broadband, internet, and LD) to assist business and residential customers in Oconee County along with the security of providing secure connections to local, state, and federal governments.  Providing high speed effective broadband services was the goal of Oconee County and with the help of OneTone Telecom they are seeing this goal achieved. 

OneTone serves Oconee County and the surrounding areas through both fixed wireless and fiber deployments.

Contact Mike Powell (864-247-5813 mpowell@1tone.net) or Scott Loggins (864-985-3906 sloggins@1tone.net) for more information concerning their network and services.