Monadnock Ledger-Transcript
Published: 4/23/2021 11:38:23 AM
About 170 Francestown households are now eligible for a new source of fiber broadband internet after TDS announced its customers could sign up for fiber earlier this week. Broadband committee chair Alfred Eisenberg described the situation as a “small glow at the end of the tunnel” for eligible residents. “Prices/speeds can’t be beat,” for households in the TDS footprint, he wrote to residents.
There are about 113 houses in town with no real access to internet outside of satellite services like HughesNet or StarLink, Eisenberg said. Comcast serves 665 residences in town, and TDS additionally serves 140 of those, plus 30 additional residences that Comcast does not, he said. Francestown has 808 addresses in the 911 database, although that number might include some unoccupied structures, he said.