IQ Fiber Selects Space for Northeast Florida Headquarters

Image of iMethods building that will be the new IQ Fiber headquarters.

Growing fiber-optic start-up will move to space in April 2022

JACKSONVILLE, Fla., December 20, 2021 – IQ Fiber, Northeast Florida’s only local residential fiber-optic internet service provider, announces it has selected a home for its Jacksonville headquarters. The company has leased the former iMethods office space at 8787 Perimeter Park Blvd. CHINT Properties owns the location which includes 6,600 square feet of space which will house IQ Fiber’s management, engineering, and customer contact divisions. The company will move to the space in early 2022.

IQ Fiber, officially launched in September 2021 with the closing of its initial private equity funding, is a new residential fiber-optic internet provider with a target of serving over 60,000 homes across Northeast Florida in the first phase of its infrastructure deployment.

“We have been ramping up quickly, growing our team and completing our network design,” said IQ Fiber CEO Ted Schremp. “Selecting and securing adequate office space for our rapidly growing operations was paramount to building our company foundation as we focus on serving customers in early 2022.”

IQ Fiber is currently finalizing its network plans and will soon launch infrastructure projects across several neighborhoods in Jacksonville. IQ Fiber seeks to bring high-speed, state-of-the-art 100% fiber-optic network internet to areas of Northeast Florida that do not currently have access to modern, symmetrical broadband services. In addition, IQ Fiber is hiring local management, field and support staff.

Fiber to the home represents the state-of-the-art for the delivery of broadband services, yet it is accessible to only 36% of the U.S. population. Compounding the consumer challenge approximately 83 million Americans can access broadband only through a single provider. IQ Fiber will be a high-quality choice for many Northeast Florida residents with simple, no-hassle plans supported by local experts.

IQ Fiber will offer simple month-to-month rates with no hidden fees, surcharges or surprise price increases. IQ Fiber’s three service plans will deliver symmetrical internet speeds between 250 and 1,000 Mbps, uploads and downloads at gigabyte speed and whole-home Wi-Fi service.

About IQ Fiber

IQ Fiber is Northeast Florida’s only local fiber-optic internet service provider. Headquartered in Jacksonville, IQ Fiber is transforming the residential broadband market by offering a 100% fiber-optic network with a stress-free guarantee: no contracts, hidden fees, or data caps. Its network is supported by live, local customer service. IQ Fiber is backed by strong capital funding partners focused on rapidly expanding its residential fiber network across Clay, Duval, Nassau and St. Johns Counties. For more information, visit www.iqfiber.com.

Frequently Asked Questions

The internet is the heartbeat of the modern home. We’ve come to rely on it for work, education, entertainment, and shopping. Fiber is the best solution to provide internet because it is:

FAST — 1000 mbps (1G) of speed with fiber internet is about 20 times faster than standard cable. Your time is valuable, so don’t waste it waiting for your internet to load!
RELIABLE — IQ Fiber provides dedicated bandwidth directly to your home, so your speeds don’t dip during peak traffic hours or as more neighbors join the Fiberhood.
SYMMETRICAL — Only fiber has symmetrical upload and download speeds so no matter what you’re doing, you can get it done quickly.
FUTURE-PROOF — Fiber cables are more lightweight, durable, and resilient than copper. Its bandwidth capacity far exceeds what any home requires, so we’ll grow with you as technology changes in the future.
SUSTAINABLE — Traditional cable uses about 12 times more energy than fiber. It generates less heat and is made from more sustainable materials.

Symmetrical speeds are when upload and download speeds are equal. Older mediums like cable and DSL are asymmetrical, meaning you aren’t able to upload data as quickly as you can download it. When your speeds are symmetrical it means video calls work better, video games play faster, and your photos upload in an instant.

Fiber-optic networks are built to transmit data through a thin fiber glass strand using pulses of light. Because each strand is dedicated to each home, there is no sharing of bandwidth between neighbors. In addition, fiber-optic networks need very little electrical power to operate. The data is transmitted at the same speed to the home as it is away from the home with very little lag. Fiber-optic networks are the fastest and most reliable home internet technology available today.

5G is a form of wireless broadband delivered using nearby cell towers while fiber-optic internet is connected directly to your home. FTTH (fiber to the home) connections provide dedicated bandwidth while a 5G shares bandwidth with your neighbors. Though 5G wireless is great for mobile devices when you aren’t home, fiber-optic is much faster and more reliable to use for the many connected devices within your home.

Yes. In most cases you will be able to keep your existing services. However, once you move to our services, you’ll have enough speed and bandwidth to manage all your services over the internet. It’s also easy to move to a voice-over-internet-protocol (VOIP) service like Google Voice or Vonage where you can keep your phone number. You always have the option to remove your home phone altogether in favor of using your cell exclusively instead. Most national security monitoring companies offer “cut the cable cord” services with faster response times than a landline can offer.

Growing fiber-optic start-up will move to space in April 2022

Frequently Asked Questions

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