Alta, IA 51002
(712) 200-1122
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Alta Municipal Telecommunication Utility On July 8, 1997, an election was held so the citizens of Alta could determine the fate of a municipal telecommunication utility. The vote was in support of a municipal utility with an 89 percent approval rate. At the same time, the citizens voted to have the telecommunication utility placed under the governing control of the Board of Trustees. The Board of Trustees was the governing body for the electric and water utilities prior to the election. The Board of Trustees consisted of Chairman-Dennis Weber, Trustee-Alan Wadsley, and Trustee-Darell DePrez. The Utility Superintendent was Ronald Deiber. Construction of an underground distribution system was completed in 2000. The underground system was constructed using a highbred coaxial and fiber optic cable. The system provides a connection to every house in Alta. It is capable of carrying cable television, high speed Internet, and telephone all on one wire, at the same time. A new building was constructed to house the electronic equipment needed to provide these services. Alta Municipal Utilities (Altatec) began offering cable television service in the fall of 2000. Channel lineup consist of 12 channels for basic service, 66 channels for expanded basic service and the option of 4 premium channel packages. Premium movie channels are offered for an additional monthly fee, with a special package price if 2 or more packages are received. Alta Municipal Utilities serves cable television to 525 customers with that number growing daily. Alta Municipal Utilities added telephone to its list of local services in the spring of 2001. Customers have the option to take both local and long distance telephone service through the municipal utility or can choose a different long distance service provider. Local service is provided through the municipal utility regardless of whom the customer chooses as a long distance service provider. Alta Municipal Utilities continues to provide telephone service to new customers on a daily basis. The current customer line count is 859 and is continually growing as residents realize the advantages of a locally owned, locally controlled municipal utility. With the advent of telephone service, Alta Municipal Utilities added dial-up and high-speed cable modem Internet to its services. The dial-up Internet connects at 56K and uses the telephone line to provide service. Cable modem offers the customers a choice of Internet service. High-speed cable modem is much faster than dial-up and the municipal utility offers its customers the choice of 256K or 512K. Both services have been received well by the Alta citizens with 103 customers choosing dial-up service and 212 using the high-speed cable modem service. Alta Municipal Utilities and its customers look forward to the future as electronic technology continues to evolve. The distribution system was installed with the latest technology to provide for the incorporation of new technology as it becomes available. Alta takes pride in the fact, that through the voice of their citizens, they have the availability of advanced telecommunication services while many cities in Iowa lag behind in modern telecommunication services. © 2003 Altatec All rights
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