CASE STUDY: Northern Alabama Electric Coop Speeds to Broadband Success
Summary
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- In 2020, Cullman Electric Co-op in Northern Alabama launched Sprout Fiber Internet to bring much-needed broadband service to their customers.
- To Sprout Fiber, long-term success meant managing the service on their own, without consultants or hired guns.
- Sprout Fiber chose GLDS’ customer management system for its provisioning and scheduling features, saving thousands of hours through its built-in automation.
- The combined solution of GLDS’s SuperController™ with components of Adtran’s Mosaic One empowered Sprout Fiber to offer a superior customer experience.
- The result was a successful Phase-1 rollout, with Sprout Fiber securing over 2000 residential and commercial customers, including the regional medical center.


GLDS’ best-of-suite approaches combined pre-integrated customer management, customer self-care, e-commerce, workforce management and subscriber billing with fully-automated service delivery for Calix’s Intelligent Access EDGE customer premise fiber solutions, and Revenue EDGE.

