What is a Socket Certified Builder?
When you see the Socket Certified Builder logo in a newly constructed home, you'll know the builder has gone above and beyond to ensure the home has been wired with dependable, fast, high quality, fiber-optic internet, ready for connection as soon as the home buyer moves in!
A Socket Certified Builder is forward-thinking, making dependable, high speed internet a priority when considering the current and future needs of the home buyer.
How does a builder become Socket Certified?
- Their electricians and/or project managers meet with a Socket Fiber Installation Supervisor to learn the best methods and materials necessary to wire a home for the most optimal fiber-optic speeds and reliability.
- Their sales team has met with a Socket Fiber Development Specialist to discuss best methods of coordinating our Socket Fiber connection to the home during construction, as well as installation after construction, ensuring a smooth transition for the buyer upon move-in.
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High-speed internet is considered a basic utility for today's home buyer.
- Multiple studies have shown that access to a fiber-optic network increases a home's value. Premium technology is important to today's world of telecommuting, whole house entertainment systems and video monitoring. A home with access to fiber-optic technology stands apart from the competition when people are looking to purchase or even rent a home.
- Fiber-delivered internet services boosts the value of a typical home by $5,437 - that's as much as an additional fireplace or half-bath.
- Homes with 1 Gbps fiber access saw transaction prices more than 7 percent higher than comparable properties with slower 25 mbps.
- In today's world, parents working from home and students learning remotely are both a reality. Bandwidth-intense video conferencing, file sharing, and real-time collaboration work together to eliminate the distance between the office and classroom with those at home. To make that happen, more homeowners than ever are demanding the near-enterprise-level of stability and speed that only fiber can deliver.
Let Socket help you plan a future proof neighborhood with our phone, internet, and TV services. Call us when your engineer begins working on the electrical plans, and we'll make sure you have reliable fiber to the home for your newest subdivision!
Why connect fiber to the home during construction?
- Connecting fiber to the home after it is completely finished can require call backs for landscaping/irrigation/pet fence repairs.
- Nothing is more frustrating than moving into a home and realizing you don’t have internet service connected. Sometimes it is not a matter of hours, but days until clients can get internet connected if there is not already a drop placed to their home.
- All it takes is some duct...and Socket will even supply it! Just run the duct from the right-of-way to the outside of the home where the other utilities are and cap it off. This duct allows Socket to pull our fiber through at any time, avoiding cut fiber wires and damage to your finished landscaping!
- Having the new home ready to go “live” upon move-in, shows you, as the builder, are forward thinking, and include internet service as a priority utility in today’s home.
- Custom builds can include internet use for the family as part of the planning when installing cabling and electric in the home. Planning ahead makes a big difference.
- As a certified builder, your electrician already knows how to most efficiently wire the home for quality fiber internet experience. We will be happy to answer any questions you have about our wireless “boosters” and how they help all those smart appliances and gadgets you put in the home work seamlessly throughout the home, never dropping a signal. Thinking about how the family will be using internet before they move in is no different than thinking about where they want to place electrical outlets and switches.
- Why Socket? Phone, internet, and TV - all in one affordable package, priced for life. No contracts, no data caps, and no hidden fees. Your buyer will thank you!
Interested in becoming a Socket Certified Builder? Contact us at realtor@socket.net or give us a call at 800-SOCKET-3 ext. 118.