Pioneer has announced its four Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (CLEC) community fiber-optic overbuild.

Pioneer has begun staking, designing and engineering in Cashion for a new fiber-optic internet network, a first for Cashion residents.

Pioneer will be the first internet service provider (ISP) to offer high speed internet in Cashion, one of fastest-growing communities in the area.

Pioneer and its board of trustees approved finances to invest in Cashion and its future just as it did with Fairview, Woodward and Weatherford overbuilds.

The Cashion overbuild will be multifaceted.

Phase 1 will be the town of Cashion and several key neighborhoods north of town that have new home construction or future construction.

The initial build will consist of 739 households, over 28 miles of fiber-optic cable installed on the Cimarron Electric network of electric poles.

Pioneer will offer speeds up to 5 GB, the fastest speeds available today.

This cooperation by Cimarron Electric to utilize its pole infrastructure will allow Pioneer to install fiber-optics and provide high-speed broadband to underserved residents in Cashion.

The Back Story

In 1936, Cimarron Electric Cooperative was formed under the name Consumer Rural Electric.

The electric company began serving underserved customers with electricity in western Oklahoma.

In 1937, the first meter was powered and began to expand and serve more electric customers.

The year 1939 brought big change.

Cimarron Electric Cooperative was named and hired its first general manager, Sen. Roy Boecher.

In 1953, Cimarron Electric Cooperative Board started what is now the fourth-largest telephone cooperative in the United States and, at that time, the first telephone cooperative in the state of Oklahoma.

Today, Pioneer and Cimarron are rich in history and remain local as they are headquartered in Kingfisher and employ hundreds of families that live and work in the area.

And now, 70 years after Cimarron and Pioneer began the telephone cooperative, the two cooperatives work together again.

More on Fiber

Fiber will allow customers to have full access to services like broadband speeds up to 5 GB, multiple iVideo TV streams, high-definition video, Cloud DVR, live streaming, security cameras and home automation.

Pioneer offers fiber-optic high-speed internet to both residential and business customers for the same price and the same speeds, while enhancing the users experience with symmetrical download and upload speeds.

With the increase in IoT (Internet of Things) devices, Pioneer realizes upload speeds are just as important as download speeds.

To find more information on fiber or to register your interest in fiber, visit GoPioneer.com and click Get Fiber or call the Kingfisher office at 405.375.8155.

By registering online, Pioneer will provide you with updates on fiber construction progress.