RICH HILL, MISSOURI WAS NAMED IN 1871 BY C.W. RATEKIN AND USED THE SLOGAN “THE TOWN THAT COAL BUILT”. THE TOWN EXPERIENCED A RAPID POPULATION EXPANSION DURING THE LATE 1800’S UNTIL MINING EFFORTS BEGAN TO DECLINE AND EVENTUALLY ENDED IN 1906. LATER THE MINING EFFORT WAS RENEWED BY PEABODY ENERGY. IN THE 1950S KLM TELEPHONE COMPANY, A RURAL TELEPHONE COMPANY, AND ITS OWNER, AMERICAN BROADBAND, IS BASED IN RICH HILL. DAVID K. BENNETT, DEAN TALBOT, SONNY PETTY, HOMER SWOPE, KENNY KERNS, RALEIGH MASUR AND GARY RAMAGE WORKED FOR KLM TELEPHONE CO. AND HELPED INSTALL THE FIRST DIAL TELEPHONE SYSTEM AND EQUIPMENT IN THE TOWN OF RICH HILL, MISSOURI. BLUEBIRD FIBER CONTINUES THE RICH HILL TRADITION OF TELECOM AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BY PROVIDING OUR NETWORK AND DATA CENTER SERVICES.
Bluebird Fiber offers a true business class service suitable for handling mission critical data communications. The Bluebird Fiber fiber architecture supports transport, Ethernet and Dedicated Internet Access through intelligent routing with speeds up of up to 100G. Our MPLS backbone and diverse Internet Service Provider connections with diverse Tier 1 Internet Providers, providing reliable Internet service for government and public safety centers, educational institutions and other small businesses and enterprises. Bluebird Fiber owns and maintains their private fiber network and we pride ourselves on our immediate, consistent, and accessible customer service, with personal service from our account teams and our field technicians.
Bluebird Fiber offers collocation, gigabit transport and gigabit Internet services through the Bluebird Underground Data Center in Springfield, Missouri. Housed in a cave 85 feet underground and encased by natural limestone, the Bluebird Underground Data Center is the ideal location to protect your equipment and hardware from natural and man-made disasters. Our facility combines the natural protection of our underground surroundings with the latest security measures to offer peace-of-mind from any kind of emergency. As a SOC 2 Type 2 compliant data center, Bluebird Underground is committed to meeting and exceeding ever-evolving industry standards, critical component redundancies and maintaining a 100% uptime assurance to our customers.
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Rich Hill, Missouri Area
616 E Park St.
Rich Hill, MO 64779