EPB

EPB, also known as the Electric Power Board of Chattanooga, is an electricity distribution and telecommunications company owned by the city of Chattanooga, Tennessee. In 2010, EPB was the first company in the United States to offer 1 Gbit/s high-speed internet, over 200 times faster than the national average. On October 15, 2015, Chattanooga implemented the world's first community-wide 10-gig Internet service, available to all of EPB's 175,000 homes and businesses.

In 1935, an act of the Tennessee Legislature established EPB as an independent, non-profit board of the City of Chattanooga to provide electric power to the Greater Chattanooga area. Today, EPB remains one of the largest publicly owned electric power distributors in the country. EPB serves more than 175,000 homes and businesses in a 600-square-mile (1,600 km²) area that includes greater Chattanooga and Hamilton County, portions of surrounding Southeastern Tennessee counties and areas of north Georgia.

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EPB is also providing its gigabit internet service in the Chattanooga Airport, where visitors enjoy free high-speed Wi-Fi service. They set up a demonstration area in the former gift shop. EPB also provides free high-speed Wi-Fi in Miller Plaza. EPB is also one of the largest providers of electric power in the US. EPB has chosen Aimetis Corp as their security system operator to optimize their efficiency. This is because of Aimetis's "robust video analytics and the open architecture system." EPB has petitioned the FCC to allow them to deliver internet to communities outside of the 600 square mile area that they service. Nineteen states in the US have laws the make it difficult or impossible for utility companies to deliver internet outside of the area that they service.

EPB (disambiguation)

EPB may refer to:

EPB49

Dematin is a protein that in humans is encoded by the EPB49 gene.

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