Shentel Successfully Deploys Fiber-based DIA Solution for Utz®
August 8th, 2017

Fully redundant network gives PA company room to grow

Edinburg, VA. – August 8, 2017 – Shenandoah Telecommunications Company (Shentel) (SHEN) is pleased to announce the completion of a new fiber optic network deployment for Utz® Quality Foods, LLC. Headquartered in Hanover, Pennsylvania, Utz is a privately owned, family-managed company which manufactures and markets snack foods throughout the United States and internationally.

Shentel provided fiber-based Dedicated Internet Access (DIA) service to the Utz corporate headquarters as well as dark fiber to connect an additional facility. The solution allows Utz to easily add capacity as the company grows, up to 100 Gbps over Shentel’s fully redundant fiber optic network.

“We have enjoyed working with Shentel,” said Steve Toth, C.I.O., Utz Quality Foods. “They provided a fiber optic solution that immediately benefited the productivity to our plant operations. Internet access is an essential business tool, and Shentel tripled our bandwidth without burdening our budget with growth to scale for our future needs.”

“Shentel recently completed a $5 million expansion of our fiber network into central Pennsylvania, and we are excited about entering the Hanover, PA market with such a prominent business partner like Utz,” said Ed McKay, Senior Vice President of Wireline and Engineering at Shentel.

To find out more about Shentel business solutions, go to www.business.shentel.com.

About SHENTEL

Shenandoah Telecommunications Company (Shentel) provides a broad range of diversified communications services through its high speed, state-of-the-art network to customers in the mid-Atlantic United States. The Company’s services include: wireless voice and data; cable video, internet 

and digital voice; fiber network and services; and regulated local and long distance telephone. Shentel is the exclusive personal communications service (“PCS”) Affiliate of Sprint in portions of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia. For more information, please visit www.shentel.com.

 About Utz® Quality Foods, LLC.

Founded in 1921, Utz® Quality Foods, LLC. is the largest privately-held and family-managed salty snack food company in the United States, producing a full line of products including potato chips, pretzels, cheese snacks, corn chips, tortillas, veggie stix/straws, popcorn, onion rings, pork skins and more.  Its brands, which include Utz®, Zapp’s®, “Dirty”® Potato Chips, Golden Flake®, Good Health®, Bachman®, Bachman Jax®,  Wachusett® and Snikiddy® among others, are distributed nationally and internationally through grocery, mass-merchant, club stores, convenience stores, drug stores and other channels.  Based in Hanover, PA, Utz® operates 10 facilities located in Pennsylvania, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Alabama and Colorado.  For information about Utz® or its products, please visit www.utzsnacks.com or call 1-800-FOR-SNAX.