Home Telephone Company, Inc employees perform directional drilling to insert underground fiberoptic cables, part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture USDA Rural Development RD ReConnect 50/50 grant of $8,184,531 to extend broadband services to several areas of Berkeley County and Charleston County in South Carolina on August 8, 2022.

Home Telephone Company, Inc, provided matching funds for the $16,369,062 project. The internet and video services will be provided over fiber optic cable and Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) technology. The Network design includes 219 miles of fiber and drop fibers to 3,585 premises. These rural communities do not have access to broadband services for today's needs. For more information, please go to usda.gov/reconnect. USDA media by Lance Cheung.