LocalTel Fiber Update

Here is the first of two important updates on the fiber system. The first is from Mark Sullivan of LocalTel with some advice to all potential subscribers on confirming your service order and the second from Chelan PUD Commissioner Werner Janssen: 

From Local Tel:

We currently have about 119 fully completed orders from Lake Wenatchee/Plain area and about over 100 more leads through the PUD Portal.  To be efficient and thorough, we could use some help getting additional information out.  Below is a list of the fiber zones and preliminary turn on schedule.

All zones will be lit in September, the snow usually flies in Late October, there is a small window of opportunity to get as many customers turned up as possible.  Customers with overhead power will be installed first, followed by customers with underground communication conduit, and then customers with power conduit if there is still time before the snow flies.  Customers with direct bury power or that need trenching or boaring may have to wait until spring to get Fiber.

What do you need to do?

1. If residents have completed an on-line Sign-up through the LocalTel Web-site or have filled out LocalTel Paperwork and sent it back to or dropped it off at LocalTel, everything should be ready to go.

2. If residents have only competed a Preliminary Sign-up through LocalTel or the PUD we will need more information so please complete this form: https://www.localtelonline.com/signups

Upon completing the sign up you will receive a confirmation number.

If you aren’t sure what you need to please email: Tracey Yednek 

The sooner the order has been verified and placed the more likely you can get service before the snow flies.

3. If a resident hasn’t signed up at all yet, please use this link to sign up as soon as possible. https://www.localtelonline.com/signups

4. Because the of the Small Window of time between September 1 and the first snowfall, we need to get as many people signed up as soon as possible.  If we call you, please call back right away and give us as many ways to contact you as possible. The PUD is willing to add additional Installers if they can be efficient with the installations.  That would mean being able to do a whole neighborhood at the same time. So neighborhoods with the densest number of sign-ups with scheduled installations will most likely be prioritized by the PUD. Also, customers being flexible and readily available at their home for the installation will help a great deal as well.

Mark Sullivan
LocalTel Communications
341 Grant Road
East Wenatchee, WA 98802
Office 509-888-9163
email: marks@localtel.net

Fiber Turn Up Schedule:

The PUD is planning to light 5 towers (zones) in your area beginning the September 1.
They are in order of the turn-up dates: (some of these premises may be empty lots)

1st: FDT 148 Sugart Flats Area (268 Premises)
Major Roads: Alder Ln., Allen Rd., Cedar Crest, Cottonwood Ln., Kinnikinnick Dr., Larch Dr., Sugart Flats Road, Sumac Lane., Wenatchee Pines

2nd:FDT 166 Lake Wenatchee – North Shore (223 Premises)
Major Roads: Brown Road, Fir Drive, Lake View Drive, Maple Drive, N Shore Drive, Telemark Lane

3rd: FDT 169 Lake Wenatchee – South Shore (269 Premises)
Major Roads: Cedar Brae Road, N Shore Dr., S Shore Road

4th: FDT 149 Chiwawa River Estates (290 Premises)
Major Roads: Aspen Ct., Chiwawa Ct., Chiwawa Loop Road, Chiwawa River Raod, Kinnkinick Dr., Lower Chiwawa River Road, Meadow Dr., Pine Ct., Pine Tree Road, Riffle Dr., Salal Dr., Tomarack Crest Dr., Wending Ln.

5th: FDT 181 Lake Wenatchee – Happy Clown (197 Premises)
Major Roads: Braeburn, Lake View Drive