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Innovative Community Support: Nuvera and Clearfield Partnership Drives Efficient Technology Deployment

Navigating through the ever-changing landscape of technology, Nuvera has remained a beacon of connectivity and community support in the telecommunications sector. This local company has been more than a mere service provider; it represents a vital link for residences, businesses, and particularly rural communities in Southern Minnesota and Iowa, integrating them with the global…

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By Industrial Iot · Glen ZerbeHutchinsonIowaKathy Lund
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Navigating through the ever-changing landscape of technology, Nuvera has remained a beacon of connectivity and community support in the telecommunications sector.

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This local company has been more than a mere service provider; it represents a vital link for residences, businesses, and particularly rural communities in Southern Minnesota and Iowa, integrating them with the global…

Navigating through the ever-changing landscape of technology, Nuvera has remained a beacon of connectivity and community support in the telecommunications sector. This local company has been more than a mere service provider; it represents a vital link for residences, businesses, and particularly rural communities in Southern Minnesota and Iowa, integrating them with the global network. Their partnership with Clearfield has notably enhanced their capability to deploy fiber-optic technology, furthering their commitment to serving underserved areas.

But how does a local company like Nuvera maintain its relevance and efficiency in an industry often dominated by large-scale players? Glen Zerbe, the President and CEO and Kathy Lund, Senior Director of Regulatory and Customer Operations, as well as Larry Shepard, Manager of Network Operations, and Toby Hermel, Senior Network Manager at Nuvera, shed light on the delicate balance between embracing technological advancements and staying true to community-centric services.

“We’re a local company ruthlessly local in our support of our local people, people who answer phones, but we also work with local businesses, and we try and put the investment back into communities so that we have a thriving ecosystem,” they said.

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Nuevera is a we think of ourselves as a connections company. We've helped residences and businesses and communities make connections to the outside world, and then we enrich those connections. We enrich them with security or content or connections to the internet, management capabilities and and the like. That's their core, our our business, and the things that, we've been doing for a hundred and seventeen years for our customers. Our customer base ranges from residential. Customers to enterprise customers and everything in between. We have small businesses, mid sized businesses, and we take care of all of their communication solutions to make them more efficient. We do serve smaller, more modest communities, rural communities around Southern Minnesota and in Iowa. Those communities tend to be, locations that are areas of the, of the state that sometimes are left behind by a larger cable or telephony companies. We've been doing that successfully for for many, many decades. Clearfield enables us to deliver of the latest technology to our company over fiber. They're willing to listen to us. You know, if we have, a problem, they are willing to work with us and come up with a solution that we can use deploy, especially right now, we can use it to deploy our fiber to the home in a more cost effective, efficient, a process than what we have done in the past. It's been a two sided relationship, you know. Obviously, we buy a lot of product from, Clearfield, but it also has helped us to They move our fiber to home projects forward and, provide efficiencies in our operations. We work with, with rural communities, you know, and we're a modest company ourselves, and we think we do big things. And we do big things because we have an amazing ecosystem on our So I think that's that's an important part of the story. We're a local company ruthlessly local in our support of our or local people, people who answer phones, but we also work with local businesses, and we try and put the investment back into communities so that we have a thriving ecosystem of of capable companies and the towns that we serve are the communities that we serve

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