Project Updates

Another very busy day of connecting more customers to high-speed fiber internet service from Volt Broadband! If you haven’t already pre-registered, make sure you do so today to get on the list here. Follow us on social media for more updates. You can also call our...

Today was a HUGE DAY for Volt Broadband — and for rural Northeast Louisiana! While we have already had live test sites running, we hooked up our very first customer today! Damien and Crystal Edwards of Log Cabin were the excited first couple to be connected to the...

Yesterday, on August 25th, 2022, we surfed the web at our hut in Log Cabin. This was a huge accomplishment as we are now connected to the worldwide web and can now connect NELPCO members to the web. We will continue to test and make sure the reliability is perfect...

Mainline fiber construction for Bonita Road is near completion and work has begun on the Crossett Road feeder north of Log Cabin. We plan to have a few test sites “lit up” by the first week of September. Make ready construction has been completed for both Baskin...

Contractors continue make ready construction out of the Baskin substation and north of the Log Cabin substation. Make ready construction consists of clearing brush and trees growing into the lines, setting taller poles and/or moving the current power lines to new...

Fiber, fiber everywhere! Crews are actively hanging fiber in the Baskin area and readying the internet network for broadband service to all NELPCO members. If you live in the Baskin area (or Liddieville, Fort Necessity, Crowville or Mangham) and are a NELPCO member,...

Our Volt Broadband Fiber To The Home project has reached several milestones. First, the fiber is hung and all road crossing for mainline fiber have been completed. Splicing will begin Monday, July 18th and testing will begin to determine that the quality of light...

So much fiber going up! We’re still on track to begin “lighting up” our first customers in a couple of weeks. It’s coming, folks!

MANY, La. (KTVE/KARD) — According to Joe Shyne with the District five Louisiana Public Service Commissioner Foster Campbell, on Wednesday, April 27, 2022, the Louisiana Public Service Commission announced that the first Louisiana rural electric cooperative to enter...

WE’RE COMING TO BASKIN! Volt Broadband will soon cover all of the NELPCO member area, but based on initial pre-signup interest, one of our first areas to serve will be the Baskin community in Franklin Parish. Here are recent photos of construction happening in the...

WE’RE COMING TO BASTROP! Volt Broadband will soon cover all of the NELPCO member area, but based on initial pre-signup interest, one of our first areas to serve will be the Log Cabin community in Bastrop. Here are recent photos of construction happening in the Log...

We’re getting closer! Crews are preparing electricity poles for fiber network construction in the Bastrop, LA area. We cannot wait to finally bring high speed fiber internet to the too long underserved areas of rural Northeast Louisiana.