The Camino Fiber Network Cooperative (CFNC) is a California cooperative nonprofit corporation formed to provide Internet protocol-based telecommunications services in El Dorado County. Telecommunications cooperatives were formed in the United States early in the 20th Century to provide telephone service in areas where investor owned companies could not profitably provide service. 

A similar situation exists today with many El Dorado County residents lacking reliable and affordable access to today's modern telecommunications services including high speed Internet, video and Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) due to incomplete build out of telecommunications infrastructure.  As Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski described them in a March 2, 2010 speech, these services are "not only the Web and email; it’s a telephone; it’s television; it’s a library; it’s a town hall."

To deliver these vital services now and in the future with superior value for its owner members, CFNC intends to construct open access fiber optic-based telecommunications infrastructure with the goal of "no home left behind."

You can also contact us at

Camino Fiber Network Cooperative
P.O. Box 355
Camino, CA. 95709