Fast Forward Canton: Showing our thanks to this Gig-Ready community

By Maria Kammetler, Field Marketing Associate

From marquees to stadium lights, Canton, GA, was shining bright all week with celebrations marking a major milestone.

Canton is officially Gig-Ready, with more than 75% of homes now able to get Kinetic fiber and more than 30,000 fiber locations built across town. So, we did what you do when something good happens in a small town. We invited everybody out to celebrate.

And in honor of this milestone, we said a huge thank you to Canton with Fast Forward. It’s our way of giving back to a community that’s given so much to us.

On Wednesday morning, we set up at the Canton Senior Center for a free Kinetic Digital Literacy Program session. We spent time discussing the topics that so many people are curious about but may be hesitant to explore, like getting more out of your internet, spotting scams, how to use ‘that internet tv,' and making the technology work for you instead of the other way around.

These are some of our favorite events. The questions are always thoughtful, and the people who come have usually been waiting a while to ask somebody in person. It was like a game of stump the expert! Thank you to the staff at the Senior Center for hosting us and getting the word out. We thoroughly enjoyed this very lively group.

Thursday night belonged to the Canton Theatre, and we couldn't have picked a better venue. The doors opened at 5:30 p.m. so families could walk the red carpet, get free photos taken, go for a spin in front of the 360 camera, and grab popcorn and soda on us before Inside Out 2 started at 7. Our very special character guest connected with our youngest guests via hugs and high fives, making core memories.

The Canton Theatre team was so generous and helped us make this a memorable experience for everyone.

Friday evening, we joined First Friday downtown from 6–9 p.m. with a booth featuring free coloring activities for kids, free balloons, and other free giveaways. We enjoyed all the Kinetic customers who stopped by to say hi and dance with us to the great grooves the band was playing on the grandstand, right next to our booth.

Downtown Canton does First Friday right, and we were glad to be a small part of it. We'll be back in October for the season finale!

From there, we headed to our final stop: Sequoyah High School for the Chiefs game. Our booth opened at 6:30 p.m. with free T-shirts and giveaways, and we stuck around until the lights went down. The team spirit and sense of community were inspiring, and that’s really the whole point of these celebrations, so it was an honor to be there cheering alongside the rest of the community.

Gig-Ready means that more of our Canton friends and neighbors can work from home, see a doctor virtually, run a business off a connection they can count on, and get through a Sunday evening with four people streaming four different things. Fiber is built for all of it.

We're not finished in Canton either. We'll keep building fiber locations here for years to come. But weeks like this one are a reminder of why we do the job at all. Canton is home for a lot of the people who work here, and we're grateful you let us throw a party in it.

Thank you, Canton, and we'll see you again soon!

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