Our goal is to get fiber service to you as quickly as possible, but the construction process takes time. Before inviting you to sign up for HomeTel Fiber, we spent a lot of time engineering the construction plan.  Once the project is approved, there will be even more design, engineering and staking work to be done.

Before we can start construction, we have to determine where the existing underground utilities are – cables, pipes, water lines, drainage, electric, etc.  We following the Illinois JULIE guidelines for marking the locations where each utility is supposed to be.  You will likely see orange, blue, red or yellow paint and flags on sidewalks, streets and in your yard.  Those are the locating marks indicating what services are below.  Before construction is done on your property, you will be asked to complete a drop permit letting us know where any private underground services not located through the JULIE process are located.

Before construction can start, we will need to secure permission to build in public rights-of-ways and may need to secure private easements. 

The weather has to cooperate.  Rainy conditions can cause to much disturbance to the surface of the ground and construction will stop until the ground has dried out.

Sometimes there can be equipment and material delays.  Once we know we are moving forward with the project, we will order the materials and equipment we need for the project. Because so many companies are working to build fiber throughout the world, there can be delays in getting the supplies.