CFW Intelos first entered the Harrisonburg market as CFW Communications Company with cellular phone service in 1988. They quickly showed their commitment to Harrisonburg with the installation of a fiber optic network around the city and surrounding areas to the north and south. Now known as CFW Intelos, the company recently introduced competitive local telephone service, high-speed data service and long distance telephone service, reshaping the face of communications in Harrisonburg.
People now can receive a full range of technologies from one company.
This integrated services approach in Harrisonburg is the model for what we plan to provide to all of our markets. Choice in local telephone service was made possible by the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Using traditional telephone lines DSL makes Internet and LAN connections significantly faster and more efficient than conventional dial-up services. Speeds up to 25 times faster than conventional dial-up can be expected. A file which regularly takes more than 45 minutes to download with 28.8 kilobits per second running at full speed can be downloaded in about two minutes using DSL technology.