Full Engineering for a Town-Owned Fiber-to-the-Home
Network in Rhode Island
A town in Rhode Island is an island-based community of approximately 1,900 households. Prior to this project, the only options for connectivity were aging copper telephone infrastructure or satellite services. When the local electric utility upgraded its service connection to the island to include several fiber strands, the Town leveraged those strands to build a town-owned Fiber-to-the-Home network. Pike provided a full scope of engineering services, including field survey, civil permitting, pole license application management, comprehensive address verification, and final as-builts.
Delivers high-speed internet connectivity to a previously underserved, isolated community
Required navigation of unclear right-of-way and address records, a highly restrictive permitting
process driven by the island’s sensitive environment, and a lengthy as-built process tied to individual
homeowner connections
