Silo (telecommunications company)
Silo is a Canadian telecommunications company that has been providing wireless Internet to rural and urban communities in Southwestern Ontario since 2007.[1] They also provide fibre Internet, television and phone services. [2]
History
Owners Andreas and Cynthia Wiatowski could not find reliable Internet service and so they built infrastructure to connect their home to the Internet 2007.[2] The same year, they created a business plan, found investors and met with local farmers who agreed to allow them to install transmission equipment on their silos. They branded themselves Silo Wireless and began servicing people in the community. [2]
In Oct 2009 Silo won the Brantford Chamber of Commerce’s Business Excellence Bell Technology Award.[3]
The company moved to their current location at 19 Sage Crt in Brantford in March 2014.[4] That year they were ranked #82 on the PROFIT 500’s list of Canada’s fastest growing companies. [5]
The next year Andreas Wiatowski won the Brantford Chamber of Commerce’s Entrepreneur of the Year award[6] and Silo was listed again in the PROFIT 500 at #124. [7] In 2016 they were ranked #158. [8]
In 2017, their 10th year of business, Silo reported that they had connected over 5500 homes and businesses and[9]and created 90 transmission sites in Brant County, Norfolk County and Oxford County. [2]
Silo appeared in the Burford Advance in November 2017 in a piece detailing their personal history.[2]
In October 2017 the Brantford Expositor published an article regarding a fundraiser and volunteer trip that Andreas Wiatowski, and technicians made to Puerto Rico to repair Internet equipment as part of the post-hurricane relief aid.[10]
In December of 2016 an article in the Simcoe Reformer reported on their Wilsonville, Ontario fibre Internet, television and phone service project.[11]
During their first few years of business Silo also appeared in Maclean's, [12] Harrowsmith Country Life [13] and Better Farming [14] magazines in articles about rural Internet.
References[edit]
- ↑ Johnston, Emma. "Ten Years of Connecting Rural Ontario," The Burford Advance, Burford, 9 November 2017.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Johnston, Emma. "Ten Years of Connecting Rural Ontario," The Burford Advance, Burford, 9 November 2017.
- ↑ Gamble, Susan. "Silo Wireless Celebrates its big new digs", Brantford Expositor, Brantford, 4 April 2014. Retrieved on 13 August 2018.
- ↑ Gamble, Susan. "Silo Wireless Celebrates its big new digs", Brantford Expositor, Brantford, 4 April 2014. Retrieved on 13 August 2018.
- ↑ "2014 - #82 - Silo Wireless", Canadian Business, Brantford, 1 January 2016. Retrieved on 13 August 2018.
- ↑ "Chamber recognizes business excellence", Brantford Expositor, Brantford, April 2015.
- ↑ "2015 - #124 - Silo Wireless", Canadian Business, Brantford, 1 January 2015. Retrieved on 13 August 2018.
- ↑ "2016 - #158 - Silo Wireless", Canadian Business, Brantford, 1 January 2016. Retrieved on 13 August 2018.
- ↑ Sonnenberg, Monte. "Hamlet gets ready for reliable, high-speed Internet, TV", Simcoe Reformer, Wilsonville, 7 December 2016. Retrieved on 13 August 2018.
- ↑ Gamble, Susan. "Silo CEO, staff head to Puerto Rico" Brantford Expositor, Brantford, 20 October 2017. Retrieved on 13 August 2018.
- ↑ Sonnenberg, Monte. "Hamlet gets ready for reliable, high-speed Internet, TV", Simcoe Reformer, Wilsonville, 7 December 2016. Retrieved on 13 August 2018.
- ↑ Kirby, Jason. "Bringing the Internet to farm country," Maclean's, Brant, 1 October 2007.
- ↑ "High-Speed in Cow Country," Harrowsmith Country Life, Brant, April 2008. No. 199.
- ↑ Irwin, Robert. Stoneman, Don. "Rural Connections. A broadband boost or 'corporate welfare'?" Better Farming, Brant, January 2009.
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