Business View Magazine | July 2022

96 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 9, ISSUE 7 its fiber network. It allows communities to avoid having to open up to a multitude of different providers. “Lit Communities has a great model,” Kyle says. “They’ve absolutely exploded and I would attribute a lot of our success to being associated with companies like Lit.” To continue its success, Millennium has ambitions to expand further, eventually serving at least 90% of the U.S. within one day. “We’re investing in technology improvement that makes it easier to work with Millennium,” Kyle says. “In a high-tech world, this is still a pretty archaic industry. We want to become the provider that people think of when they want to build a local, original network by making it easier and faster to do business with us.” PREFERRED VENDORS/PARTNERS n ADP TotalSource® www.adptotalsource.com n Esri www.esri.com/telecom Esri applies The Science of Where to unlock data’s full potential in every organization. We continue to pioneer real-world problem solving using geographic information systems (GIS).  Using this powerful platform to reveal deeper insights in their data, Esri users are creating the maps that run the world. n Lit Communities LitCommunities.net | info@litcommunities.net Lit Communities partners with municipalities to bridge the digital divide. Their unique approach makes otherwise prohibitively expensive fiber networks feasible to build in communities of all sizes. Lit Communities offers actionable community assessments, builds and funds fiber networks, and even launches local internet service provider brands in communities they serve.