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Fiber to the Premises Network Ownership and Consulting

Join the Revolution

Since its inception in 2007, OHIvey has been the vanguard of the telecommunications revolution bringing consumers true broadband choice through fiber to the premise on open service provider networks and by developing new products and services for its clients.

Brief History

During World War II, Oscar Ivey worked in a shipyard installing electronics equipment.  At the end of the war, Mr. Ivey bought three railroad boxcars of “surplus Army electronics equipment” sight unseen.   When he opened the boxcars, he found they contained “modern” telephone equipment.  He then purchased a telephone company and converted it from operator assisted dialing to direct dialing.  Mr. Ivey was a soldier in the telecommunications revolution of the mid-20th Century.

Today, Mr. Ivey’s namesake company – OHIvey, LLC is poised to become the leader in the telecommunications revolution of the 21st Century, represented by municipal and other multiple provider models of deploying state of the art fiber optics to the premise networks in an open service provider model.  The future of telecommunications stems from the groundswell of fiber optics to homes and businesses, built with public/private partnerships between municipalities and private enterprise.  Public/private partnership open service provider fiber to the premise is a disruptive business model poised to break the monopoly a few incumbents hold on telecommunications today.  It is a scenario very similar to the introduction of the personal computer into the consumer market shattering IBM’s strangle hold on the computer industry.

The Telecommunications Revolution

For more than 40 years, IBM dominated the computing business.  IBM maintained their dominance in part by tying application software to hardware and individual hardware components together in tightly controlled proprietary packages.  In the mid-1970’s, IBM misread the growing demand for smaller, more accessible computing services.  A grass roots revolution to create “personal” computers with interchangeable components and application software that could run on multiple vendors hardware platforms grew in basements and garages across the country.  This “open” model was a disruptive force in the computing world and ultimately led to the marginalization of mainframe computers and of IBM as a computer manufacturer.

Today, a similar revolution is fermenting in the telecommunications industry.  For decades, Bell Telephone, the “Baby Bells” and a handful of cable providers have maintained monopolistic control of telecommunications networks throughout the country.  While the components to build a telecommunications network cannot easily be stored in one’s garage, many municipalities, cooperatives and other organizations are recognizing the growing grass roots demand for true
consumer choice on true broadband networks.  The disruptive business model represented by public/private partnership open service provider fiber to the premise networks stands as the best model to answer this grass roots demand and to revolutionize the delivery of telecommunications services.

To lead the telecommunications revolution that brings consumers true broadband choice through fiber to the premise on open service provider networks:

1. OHIvey provides markedly distinct applications and services designed to differentiate fiber networks from traditional copper networks and to provide consumers on fiber networks a truly distinct experience.  To this end, OHIvey incorporates iV Services – a subsidiary that functions as a service provider, establishes partnerships with innovative application providers and develops new applications for delivery over true broadband.
2. OHIvey provides one-time cost financing to subscribers, service providers, network owners, or all three.  This is done to prorate the cost of entry onto the fiber network for the subscriber.
3. OHIvey supports the broader deployment of open service provider networks.  This is done by providing consulting services to network owners and service providers on open service provider networks.  Also, OHIvey identifies and evaluates opportunities to build new networks both in new construction areas and in overbuild areas.  Finally, OHIvey identifies distressed network assets and evaluates opportunities for acquisition or management partnerships.

In order to lead in this market, which is critical to the future of broadband deployment and services convergence, OHIvey has built core competencies around acquiring and managing the resources needed to design, implement, deploy, operate, maintain, market and provide service on open service provider networks.  Whether the customer municipality, cooperative or other organization is looking for an independent review of a feasibility study, network implementation and management or resources to provide full services from conducting the initial feasibility study all the way through providing services on the network, OHIvey has the technical and practical resources to provide those services.