Nex-Tech Blog

For many families across our service footprint, the summer season means a time to travel, unwind, relax, and make lasting memories. The high plains region of northwest Kansas remains a hidden gem that offers many enjoyable natural beauties. The good news is you wouldn’t even miss out on your reliable Nex-Tech Wireless mobile connection when you visit these. Check them out!

When people think about cyberattacks, it’s easy to imagine headlines involving big-name corporations with massive IT budgets. But here’s the truth: cybercriminals aren’t just going after the giants, they’re going after businesses like yours. In fact, small and mid-sized businesses are some of the most frequent targets. Why? Because they’re often the most vulnerable.

Workforce recruitment and retention challenges are not isolated to any single community in Kansas; they are a widespread concern across Western Kansas. Employers in every economic sector are struggling to attract qualified applicants, and even more critically, to retain the talent they already have.

In 2023, Nex-Tech was awarded over $2.2 million through the Kansas Capital Project Funds (CPF) Broadband Infrastructure Program to bring broadband access to one of the most underserved regions in Kansas: a 99% unserved area in rural Saline County. Nex-Tech matched this amount, contributing an additional $2,293,000 to the project. Thanks to this vital funding, Nex-Tech was able to construct the necessary infrastructure to deliver high-speed fiber broadband to this rural community, a transformative step forward for both residents and businesses.

The need for high-speed broadband in rural northwest Kansas has never been greater, and our mission of connecting families, businesses, and communities has never been clearer. These all came to life recently in the towns of Oberlin, KS, and Herndon, KS. We had customer sign-up events in both towns, where we invited residents to dinner, answered their questions, and signed them up to our fiber network.

Ella Burrows recently joined our community economic development team as a summer Intern through the Nex-Generation Round Up for Youth program. Ella embodies the energy, optimism, vision, and drive typical of our western Kansas youth, and we are proud to introduce her to you.

Interconnectivity, interoperability, networking, or whatever you call it. People have to listen to people. Institutions have to listen to institutions. Leaders have to listen to leaders.

Nex-Tech continues to connect more communities to fiber optic broadband. Recently, I had a great time with our customer acquisition team as we had two customer sign-up events in Clayton and Kirwin, KS. Nex-Tech will be connecting these communities with high-speed, fiber-optic Internet.