Aaron West works from his home office. Becca West teaches English to Chinese children via the internet.
Chloe and Ariana West work on their homework at the kitchen table.
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BY LISA SAVAGE
HOME GIG INTERNET SERVICES GIVE WEST FAMILY FLEXIBILITY TO WORK AND STUDY AT HOME
8 | September/October 2019
ost mornings, Aaron West works at five computers set up in his home office. He might communicate with developers in the Ukraine on Skype or chat with co-workers near Nashville. Meanwhile, in another room in the house, his wife, Becca, wraps up an online teaching session with a group of Chinese students. And the couple’s children, Ariana and Chloe, start their day with online home-school classes. “We are all online — working or doing classwork — at the same time,” says Aaron West. “We couldn’t do this if we didn’t have a gig from Ben Lomand Connect.” West and his family relocated from Spring Hill, Tennessee, last year to be near his wife’s parents in the Crossville area. “One of the first questions we asked the real estate agent when we were looking at houses was about access to high-speed internet,” West says. They settled in a Crossville subdivision that is one of the locations where Ben Lomand Connect has installed fast, reliable, fiber internet service capable of speeds up to 1 Gbps. “It’s working out perfectly for us,” he says. Ben Lomand Connect
