Building the future
Rock Island Communications provides modern, scalable, and reliable broadband services to homes and businesses in San Juan County. We are a wholly-owned subsidiary of Orcas Power & Light Cooperative. Started in 1996, Rock Island has been serving the interests of our local community for over 20 years.
Our latest mission involves deploying fiber-optic broadband to homes and businesses, lighting up a T-Mobile LTE network countywide, and enabling our county’s first responders to communicate in hard-to-reach-places. No small feat indeed. Five years into this project we are still connecting our community to our fiber network at a record pace.
Contact us today to get connected.
Island community Members
Combined miles of fiber optic cable installed
islands served
Dedicated full time employees
Startup Highlights
October 2014
Established Island Network, LLC, and formally separated from wholly-owned parent OPALCO
February 2015
Purchased 100% Equity in local ISP Rock Island
May 2015
Signed a joint venture agreement with T-Mobile to deploy fixed wireless and improve cell coverage throughout San Juan County
December 2015
First customers deployed LTE Fixed Wireless
May 2016
Complete repayment of initial $7.5M loan from OPALCO
December 2016
Annual Revenue of $2.3M
January 2017
Over $1.9M invested directly by customers to cover construction costs
Today
37 LTE sites online now, 38 sites online by YE2021