The Next Chapter of Cobalt Ridge

Exciting times are ahead for the locally-owned company known as Cobalt Ridge, that hundreds of families and businesses in Wichita Falls, Holliday, Iowa Park, and Lakeside City have relied on for years for crucial internet and phone services. I started offering internet services back in February of 2018 to bridge the digital divide in rural areas, a task that was sorely overdue in the Greater Wichita Falls area. I grew up in The Woodlands, TX and graduated from The Woodlands High School in 2013. No matter where I lived around that area, internet access was available, and fast! I thought everyone already had access to high speed internet when I moved to Wichita Falls in the fall of 2016 for a full-time IT job. When my wife and I moved to Byers, TX to get some extra space, we were shocked to find out that internet pretty much didn’t exist, save for 5 Mbps wireless for $80/month.
That speed just wasn’t going to cut it, so we set out to build a solution. Fast forward to 2024, and Cobalt Ridge has grown to nearly 2-dozen towers and now covers Wichita Falls, Holliday, Iowa Park, and Lakeside City. All that without selling our soul to private equity or venture capitalists! We are still locally-owned!
The technology landscape is always changing. In the 7 years of Cobalt Ridge, not only has wireless technology improved immensely, but also the speeds that customers require have ballooned. The 25 Mbps we started offering in 2018 just wouldn’t cut it in today’s high-tech landscape, which is why we started offering Gigabit internet in 2023 with immense success! No longer just a startup trying to get internet to some neighbors, I had to re-imagine the vision for what Cobalt Ridge could be and how we could help even more people stay on-top of the ever changing technology landscape.
The solution: Cobalt Technology! While only a slight name change, it reflects our new mission of taking care of ALL technology needs for our customers. We will continue expanding our internet coverage across the Greater Wichita Falls area, but in addition, we will now be offering our one-of-a-kind in-house solution for 100% guaranteed-uptime commercial internet called InfinityConnect! Even the big-dogs in the ISP world don’t offer a 100% guarantee on their service. Not only will our InfinityConnect customers get internet with a 100% uptime-guarantee, but they will also enjoy a full network overhaul, including Wi-Fi, switches, and firewalls, completely free with their InfinityConnect service!
My background before starting Cobalt was in enterprise networking, datacenters, and Windows Server administration, all of which are pivotal in running modern businesses, but most businesses don’t have the staff to handle all of their technology needs. Cobalt Technology already has the staff to run our own systems, so why not expand the services to others in the area to help our city be more competitive in the modern technology landscape?

Wichita Falls is a prime location for growth, especially in the high-tech sector due to access to a large amount of fiber networks, cheap land, and low cost of living. The whole Cobalt Technology team will be doing our part to modernize our city and put us on the map!