About Us

Fortis Telecom is among the first competitive local exchange service providers to deliver secure, high performance broadband, carrier grade telephony and managed PBX services over a wireless “last mile”. Fortis Telecom is not a Wireless ISP or WISP.  We are a full-service communications provider that utilizes proprietary software and fixed-wireless technology to provide a cost-effective alternative to traditional land based facility services. Our services are guaranteed to work with our customers’ existing PBXs and Telephone Systems. Our broadband services are 4-16x the speed of a T1 and 10x faster than a typical DSL circuit on upload speeds. Customers can keep their existing phone numbers through Local Number Portability (LNP). Our network supports e911 emergency services and 411 Directory Assistance. We provide Hunt Groups, Direct Inward Dialing (DID), Caller ID and Voicemail with Integrated Messaging. Our product offering is the best combined Telco and broadband solution available today; delivering lower cost and higher quality performance for our customers.

In many cases the availability of high-capacity broadband with speeds above 2 Mbps is limited in the urban and suburban areas. Businesses are forced to settle for DSL circuits with inferior upload speeds or pricey T1 circuits that only offer a maximum speed of 1.5 Mbps. Our service offerings provide 1.5-20 Mbps Internet Access, Virtual Private Networks and Voice Services for Small-Medium-Large sized Businesses, Small Office/Home Office Users (SOHO), Medical Facilities, Managed Care Facilities, Education Facilities and Libraries, Government Agencies including Public Safety and Law Enforcement.

The Market Need: Community Focus

When a customer is given a choice between a Fortis Telecom Community Network and the traditional wire-line phone companies, Fortis is the clear winner in price, performance and Network Support. The choice is easy: local expertise, faster delivery for telephone lines and Internet access, more bandwidth, guaranteed reliability, no long term contract and lowest price.

Wire-line T1 circuits typically take 30 days for delivery. Fiber Optic circuits typically take 90 days for delivery. The wire-line phone companies require additional fees to expedite this process. Our ability to deliver up to 20 Mbps (14 T1s of bandwidth) combined with voice lines, hunt groups and PBX Trunking in as little as 48 hours represents a telecom industry break-through for time-to-market in service delivery.

About our Network Engineering Team

The Fortis Telecom engineering team is lead by Peter Oliver and David Hudock who each have over 25 years experience in network engineering, network operations and business management.

Oliver was an early Sprint employee and is a contributor to the nations first all fiber optic network and has extensive experience in designing and deploying Operations Support Systems (OSS) for large scale carrier networks. Hudock was an early Intel employee, where he was instrumental to establishing the Intel global network.

Both Oliver and Hudock were employees of OSI where their NetExpert and Visual Agent software was deployed in over 80% of the wireless service providers around the world. In their previous startup company, Ai Metrix, Inc., Oliver and Hudock designed and deployed large scale telecommunications Operations Support Systems for Comcast, Cincinnati Bell, Broadwing (now Level 3) and the United States Department of Defense, Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA).