**Late Breaking News**

Spring Cleaning at NBS has made us realize we have far too many radios on the shelves and not out in the field. So until the excess of radios are gone we will offer a FREE install to all new customers who sign up for an install. Also we are giving all current customers a chance to cash in on this too! We are increasing the normal $25.00 referral fee to $50.00 until all the excess radios are installed. Tell all your friends and family in the area and remind them when they sign up to give us your name so you can get the credit!

THE SKY IS GETTING FULL!!

The wireless technology is the most rapidly expanding technology, exhibited by not only our constant growth at NBS, but by industries such as the farming industry and many other markets. Farming equipment such as tractors, irrigation systems, and many grain companies all now use wireless. This can cause “contentions” amongst all the gear, to the point of poor connections. NBS is well aware of this growing problem and has been currently investing in measures to insure our signal is the best quality it can be, so we can provide Internet to rural areas that the cable and DSL cannot cost justify the expansion. We have been deploying GPS enabled devices in our towers throughout our network that synchronize our radios, creating a much stronger and continuous signal, amongst all the other radio waves out there. We have been recording dramatic improvements in the quality of our connections, which simply put boil down to better speed capabilities. We have also invested in a high tech device that allows us to track down what is causing the interference so we can solve the issue quicker than ever before!

HIGHER SPEEDS NOW AVAILABLE IN MOST MARKETS

NBS is also in the process of quadrupling our network speed in the next few months, which will allow us to provide much greater consistent speeds to YOU! Soon you can purchase much greater speeds at a lower price, available at most of our towers now! Please contact us to explore your options (309.944.8823). Don’t forget, if you have a business that has multiple locations and you need network connectivity between those locations, contact NBS on your options. We provide many “Wide Area Networks” to small and large businesses across 6 counties at a much lower cost and far greater speeds than any land based networks and just as important you only have one provider to deal with, not two or three or sometimes more.

MAJOR EXPANSION AT NBS

The NBS Data Center we annouced last month is here!

All primary servers and internet connections and services will be relocated from our main office building into this new building, providing an off-site secure, fully generated, non-burnable location. This is a long term investment in our ability to provide continuous service in the event of a fire or major storm that could damage our main office, such as the lightening strike we had last year that caused over $30k in damage. (That strike was 20 feet from our building!) It will also expand on our ability to provide co-location of servers for our business customers.
Click here for our new rates we just announced in last month's newsletter.

We have currently upgraded the following areas:
Atkinson
Buda
Bradford
Colona
Erie
Fenton
Galva
Geneseo - The Cellar Building
Geneseo - Curnyn Tower
Geneseo - Edward Tower
Geneseo - Minnaert Grain Leg
Kewanee - Pine Tree Road
Kewanee - Tower Road Tower
Speer
Tampico
Tiskilwa

Is there a question or topic you would like to see in this newsletter? Email me kari@nbson.com and watch next month to see if I chose your question!