WOW! The Fiber Flex data service on the Internet, Cable & Phone is aimed at small and medium-sized businesses that were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Fiber Flex is available in Alabama, Tennessee, Indiana, Georgia, Ohio, South Carolina and Florida. The company said that Fiber Flex has reduced costs for enterprise-class asymmetric speed levels. Customers can combine the fiber-based offering with commercial voice and Wi-Fi services for the entire company.
“Fiber Flex is the perfect solution for our business customers to meet their operational objectives at a price considerably lower than what they are used to paying”, WOW! CTO Henry Hryckiewicz said in a press release. “The cost of accessing the Internet should never be a barrier when it comes to operating a business, especially in the dire conditions we witnessed during the pandemic. We hope that this new product will give small and medium business owners a little relief, knowing that they do not have to sacrifice this component of their business operations to stay afloat. “
WOW! Fiber Flex
Like WOW! notes in the statement, many companies have run out of government funding and have closed or are awaiting a new round of financing. WOW! cites a survey by MetLife and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce that says half of small businesses feel they can survive a year or less under current conditions.
The implication is that despite the arrival of vaccines and a cautious sense of optimism, the crisis is not over – and in some ways has worsened – for many small and medium-sized businesses.
WOW! provides Internet services, cable television, telephone, corporate data, voice and cloud services that serve 3 million residential, commercial and wholesale consumers in 19 markets, mainly in the Midwest and Southeast.
The pandemic illustrated the value of small local businesses. A June study by Cox Business found that more than 68% of respondents support small businesses in their communities and 70% plan to do so as the pandemic subsides.