Expecting any cool new toys this holiday season? Many households will be adding some new items to their wireless networks - if you’ve received a video game system, ebook reader, tablet, computer, or mp3 player, you’re probably among them.

If you have a wireless router, or use the internet on a laptop, chances are your wireless network is already set up. If so, adding another item is relatively painless.

As we head into 2013, we are reaching some major landmarks with our fiber network. New areas of phase 2 are now eligible for installations, including the first section of Highway RA and some areas off of Highway F near County Road 248.  We expect to have all areas within our network north of Highway F eligible for installations by the end of January 2013.

Our December You-Make-The-Difference winner, Brian Taylor, hadn’t even received his certificate yet before learning that he was also voted our Socketeer of the Year. But since the trophy will take a week or two to be engraved, he’ll at least have something to hang on his wall in the meantime!

The Socketeer of the Year award was started 8 years ago, when Socket’s owners decided to honor one of the year’s monthly You-Make-The-Difference award winners based on their embodiment of our Core Values and Beliefs.