Local ISP seeks space on Mabton water tower to save 17 customersservice
Advanced High Speed Internet asked the council to allow colocated radios on a city water tower after the railroad and landowner moved to remove a silo site that serves about 17 customers; the company offered in-kind services or a reduced lease and staff said any lease and engineering would follow permitting and building-code review.
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Austin Tumble, representing Advanced High Speed Internet, told the council the company acquired a wireless site on a BNSF-leased silo that the railroad and the landowner now consider redundant and may remove, putting local service at risk. "We serve 17 customers off of that site," Tumble said, describing the population as hard to reach by other providers and potentially without reliable alternatives such as cellular or Starlink.
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