Fed up with poor broadband access, he started his own fiber internet service provider

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Jared Mauch, a network architect by day, wanted better internet at his home in rural Michigan. So he started his own internet service provider. Job Snijders

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Long before the pandemic forced many office workers to depend on their home internet, Jared Mauch had been working from home for about two decades.

When he moved to Scio Township in 2002, an area in rural Michigan not far from Ann Arbor, his employer set him up with a great home internet connection — many

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