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LOCAL COMMUNITY BROADBAND
Locally owned by your electric cooperative, OPALCO, Rock Island delivers true broadband service to the San Juan Islands. By means of modern fiber optic technology, we offer Gig speed Fiber Optic Internet as well as broadband Fixed Wireless service over a state-of-the-art LTE network.
BUSINESS
Home Automation
VOIP
Everything is moving to the “cloud”, why not your phone system? Rock Island VoIP is one of the leading VoIP-hosted phone system providers in San Juan.
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Find out how Rock Island can bring truly high-speed broadband to your home or business and enable you to harness the speed of light.
Customers Approve.
Not only are we award-winning, our customers like us too.
“I wanted to let you know our fiber experience in Eastsound is awesome so far: fast, reliable, and economical.”
Susan
Orcas Island
“Major rave to Rock Island today. Joel Swartz is the best. Moved the office today and within an hour and a half all computers up and running, VOIP phone system working, and Wi-Fi faster than ever! Awesome service!”
Genie
San Juan Island
“I love Rock Island and love that I am not dealing with a machine in some faraway place!”
Jacqueline
Waldron Island
“You’re doing great! Great staff! Keeping it local! The quality of your modem is superior to what we had w/ century link.”
Mike
Shaw Island
The Smart Energy Plan
The OPALCO/Rock Island Smart Energy Plan allows you to invest in two important upgrades at the same time. With this unique program, you can add both fiber optic internet (FTTP) and smart home technology to your home or business. Best of all, you can finance the cost on your OPALCO power bill at 2% interest over 10 years.
Rock Island’s Fiber Broadband Initiative
Find out how Rock Island can bring truly high-speed broadband to your home or business and enable you to harness the speed of light.
Island community members
Islands served
Miles of submarine fiber
Miles of fiber optic cable
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Find out how Rock Island can bring truly high-speed broadband to your home or business and enable you to harness the speed of light.
Our LTE Modem
Our LTE Wireless modem makes it all happen. Plug one of these devices into a standard power outlet and wait four minutes. Once the modem boots up, Internet signal is live and can be accessed via one...
LTE Quick Start Guide: BEC 6300
This Guide is for the BEC Ridgewave Modem Congratulations! You hold in your hand Rock Island‘s newest wireless Internet service designed to serve the San Juan County for years to come. Rock Island...
Radio Frequency Communications Primer
T-Mobile uses radio frequency (RF) communications for delivery of emergency responder communications, broadband and cellular phone access. They use only FCC approved transceivers and conducts...