Leader Communications LLC

09/04/2026

Elk River, ID Customers: Since we know the "snow" season is approaching, we have upgraded our backup power for our location in town. Rather than a mere 10-15 minutes of protection we now will have closer to 96 hours of runtime should we lose power. This transition from grid to backup power will be a seamless action meaning we are always running on DC power that is charged by grid power. Should we lose the charge power we will already be on our battery system. This will help with surges, brownouts, and most of all power outages with virtually no disruption!

09/04/2026

Santa, Id customers- Well well...things apparently are doing well in that area lol, you are officially maxing out the capabilities of some hardware we have out there. No worries though, we are going to upgrade that older equipment this coming week :) -- Jason

09/04/2026

Thank you Ryan! --Resolved--Potlatch clients- on the west side of town closer to the highway and north of town we are experiencing some oddities, we are working on the issue and should have it resolved this evening. -- Jason

08/25/2026

Elk River customers- this outage is from 1am until 5am Thurs the 27th of August 2026, most people will not experience this as they will be nestled quietly asleep in their beds. Just an FYI

Approximately 635 Avista electric customers east of Deary in Helmer, Bovill and Elk River will experience a planned power outage this Thursday. The planned outage will start at 1:00 a.m. and end at 5:00 a.m. All affected

07/21/2026

An entity reached out to us this past week in need of several radio system repairs, we found numerous issues today and of course will be addressing all of them in a prompt manner to assure they have good reliable communications again. Many people and companies for that matter, often have a hard time finding someone reliable and professional for their two-way radio repairs. If you or your company are in need of two-way radio or C.B repairs, we will be happy to take care of your radio communication needs! Couple pics of issues I found today- each picture is from a different vehicle with different problems.

07/17/2026

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07/15/2026

Resolved-Appears we have lost one of the connections to our provider in St. Maries. We are investigating. Jason

07/04/2026

Supporting communities that support us! We sponsored the connection and ATM machines for Elk River this weekend! If you don't have plans come check out town and all the vendors! Fireworks tonight hosted by Log Inn and tomorrow Thunder in the Mountains does theirs!

04/16/2026

Many of you may have noticed, some more than others, we have just increased our speeds for a majority of our customers! That's right, at no additional charge to you, we have increased the allowed bandwidth to a majority of our customers. Many will see closer to 30mbps rather than 10mbps.

Over the past 2 decades we have come a long ways and drastically improved our network reliability, speed, and sustainability. Many moons ago we offered 1.5mbps for 45/mo, then we went up to 3mbps, then 7, then 10mbps all for the same price.

Although we have opened up the gates on bandwidth to our end users, this is still in early stages of testing, monitoring, and optimizing. As time progresses we will more easily be able to detect and adjust our network in areas where things may not be quiet as optimized as others. So at this time we are still doing "best effort" 10mbps for our Platinum package clients but we have opened those limits to 35mbps. --Jason

We are also still offering 100mbps for 100 bucks in St. Maries (select locations need surveyed) and some locations around Lake CDA.

Enjoy!!!