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Youth Tour

Each year, Central sponsors two local high school juniors to participate in Youth Tour, an all-expense paid trip to Washington, D.C. through an essay competition. In 2022, Isaac Ochsner and Bailey Ramsey visited members of Congress, national monuments, historic sights and Smithsonian museums with Youth Tour winners from cooperatives across the nation.

During the essay, ve students were chosen for interviews with two selected to attend Youth Tour and the remaining three received $1,000 scholarships.

Energy Camp

Central’s second essay competition is for two eighth-grade students to attend Energy Camp hosted by the Oklahoma Association of Electric Cooperatives at a summer camp near Hinton, Okla.

Central also attends with Pepper the robot to teach students about electrical safety. The camp allows students to step inside a set of linemen’s hooks and climb a utility pole, ride in a bucket truck and learn how electricity is generated.

Be Safety Smart

Central linemen gave electrical safety presentations to elementary students through Be Safety Smart. During the presentations, children donned linemen gear and tried to complete a task.

CO-OP KIDS

Three hundred children and grandchildren of members participated in the rst year of Co-op Kids. The program was designed to introduce children to the world of electric cooperatives and electrical safety.

The rst Co-op Kids Day welcomed 63 children to the cooperative where they met linemen and the electric cooperative mascot, Willie Wiredhand!

2022 IN NUMBERS

1,740 MILES BUILT

NEW SUBSCRIBERS

2,761

11,266 THREATS, VIRUSES AND INTRUSIONS BLOCKED PER MONTH

70 BUSINESS SUBSCRIBERS

1,495.65

1 TB = TERABYTE

TERABYTES OF DATA WERE USED BY SUBSCRIBERS IN DECEMBER

HOW MUCH DATA IS THAT?

250 2 HOUR MOVIES

17,000 HOURS OF MUSIC OR

Shortly after receiving Centranet, one of our employees noticed her son was nishing his homework much more quickly. When asked about it, he simply told her that it’s harder to procrastinate without all the buffering.

For Centranet, 2022 felt similar to how I think her son felt: lots of work, full speed and no buffering time. Our mission is to connect people with the speed of light, and we are working as fast as we can to do that. In July, Centranet reached the two-year milestone of providing high-speed ber internet to subscribers. A few months later in December, we hit our highly-anticipated goal of serving 5,000 subscribers by the end of the year.

The subscriber experience continues to be our top priority and by listening to you, we continue to cross hurdles in stride to provide fast and reliable service, while expanding our offerings. In June 2022, we added home phone service to our portfolio and now provide home phone service through Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) to more than 150 subscribers.

Our growth was obtainable by utilizing Central’s existing infrastructure and allowing Centranet to be available to 66% of Central’s membership by the end of 2022. Reliability and subscriber experience are at the forefront of everything we do. Similar to our speeds, we will continue to work as hard and as fast as we can to create the best experience possible for you. We’re on a journey to the rurals of internet, helping transform the way people live in rural Oklahoma.

Mark Prather, President of Fiber & Technology