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Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012
Duane "Barney" Voss, Cambridge Telephone Co.'s general office manager, left, explains the technology behind the company's new state-of-the-art copper-to-fiber optic infrastructure upgrade to Tom Baker of Trenton, candidate for the Legislative District 44 seat in the Nebraska Unicameral, right, and Brad Houlden of Cambridge, co-owner with his wife, Shirley, of Houlden Contracting Inc. The Fiber to the Home project is funded with an $8.23 million loan from USDA Rural Development/Rural Utilities Service, represented at a celebration in Cambridge Tuesday by its director, Maxine Moul of Lincoln. Other dignitaries Moul visited with included Jerry Vap, chairman of the Nebraska Public Services Commission, Dick Shoemaker and Tom Shoemaker of Cambridge Telephone Co. and Pinpoint Communications.