NORFOLK, Neb. -- Gone are the days of dial-up.

A telecommunications company is getting more homes up to speed on fiber, the latest push in a past couple of years to send internet speeds in northeast Nebraska through the roof and beyond.

"We’re the first one that will take fiber to every business, governmental entity, and residence," said ALLO Communications CEO and Founder Brad Moline.

Allo is building a Fiber Overbuild in Norfolk. It’s a city-wide project that will do a lot more than just increase the internet speeds.

"Gigabit communities, gigabit societies," Moline said, "in other words, that bandwidth is no longer an issue."

Governor Pete Ricketts recognizes the need to get Nebraska better internet access.

$40,000,000 of CARES act funding was dispensed to get underserved communities connected to fiber and broadband.

"Those programs are very beneficial to bringing fiber to more and more smaller communities and rural areas," said Windstream Kinetic Operations Regional President Brad Hedrick.

Windstream’s Kinetic service is another provider working to connect the state. They received $5.7 million to bring fiber to Ashland, David City, Geneva, Hebron, and Louisville.

And they’re planning to deliver connectivity to 17 more communities in the first quarter of 2021.

"Probably none of them had fiber to their home until we brought fiber to the home," Hedrick said.

That is all on top of Northeast Nebraska Telephone Company, located in Jackson, which focuses on providing fiber to small communities in the northeast corner of the state.

According to Broadbandnow.com, a website that tracks internet connectivity, Nebraska ranked 48th out of the 50 states for internet access.

Telecommunications providers acknowledge there's a lot of work left to do. They say it starts with modernizing connectivity.

"This is really important. It's like the electrification of the United States," Moline said.

"Today almost 1 in 4 Nebraskans can get 1,000mbps up and down from Allo. Our goal is to take it even higher than that."