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Local company provides high-speed internet service
CLAY TODAY – A Jacksonville company aims to make a move to provide fiber for thousands of people in four counties, including Clay.
Internet access and speed is no longer a luxury, IQ Fiber CEO Ted Schremp said, but a necessity. He said the internet is viewed as a utility like water and electricity.
IQ Fiber Selects Space for Northeast Florida Headquarters
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., December 20, 2021 – IQ Fiber, Northeast Florida’s only local residential fiber-optic internet service provider, announces it has selected a home for its Jacksonville headquarters. The company has leased the former iMethods office space at 8787 Perimeter Park Blvd. CHINT Properties owns the location which includes 6,600 square feet of space which will house IQ Fiber’s management, engineering, and customer contact divisions. The company will move to the space in early 2022.
IQ Fiber Partners with Vetro Fibermap
IQ Fiber selected Vetro FiberMap to provide fiber management, GIS mapping, and asset management.
Jacksonville Business Journal Q&A with CEO Ted Schremp
What is IQ Fiber and how did you start the company?
I’ve been in the telecommunications industry my entire career. I just turned 50, so about 30 years now. I’ve worked for AT&T. I worked for one of the large cable operators, Charter Communications, which is kind of the Comcast equivalent. And then I deployed Wi-Fi and broadband services in Jakarta, Indonesia. No matter where you are on the planet, you want Wi-Fi connectivity.
Jax-based IQ Fiber announces funding, next phase
Newly created Jacksonville-based IQ Fiber recently announced the completion of a major round of funding and its intent to move to the next phase of its business cycle.
Former cable exec to take on AT&T and Comcast in Jacksonville | Light Reading
Ted Schremp’s background may be in cable, but the industry vet has definitely found truth in fiber.
Schremp, a former top marketing exec at Charter Communications who also helped the cable op scale up its phone business, is now at the helm of IQ Fiber, a startup that is planning to bring broadband services over fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) networks to an initial 60,000 homes in Jacksonville, Florida. There, IQ Fiber will tangle with telco and cable incumbents AT&T and Comcast.
SDC Capital Partners Closes Investment in IQ Fiber
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (Sept. 15, 2021) – SDC Capital Partners, LLC (“SDC”) announced today that funds managed by SDC have acquired a majority interest in IQ Fiber, LLC, a new residential fiber-optic internet provider headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida. The transaction provides IQ Fiber with significant equity funding to complete the first phase of its all-fiber network build, passing more than 60,000 homes in the Jacksonville area