Rural towns looking to connect to broadband internet
Modified: 4/11/2021 10:14:33 PM
NORTH HAVERHILL A group of municipal managers is asking Grafton County residents about their internet service, or lack thereof, as it explores ways to expand broadband across the county.
The Grafton County Broadband Committee, made up of the leaders of four rural towns, hopes to use information collected as part of a new survey to identify and document existing gaps in coverage.
It then plans to leverage that knowledge into federal grants, stimulus dollars and possibly part of President Joe Biden’s proposed $2 trillion infrastructure plan.
The ultimate goal is to build or contract for “broadband backbone,” or fiber-optic lines that service providers could use to build out coverage into Grafton County’s communities, according to Bristol, N.H., town manager Nik Coates, who chairs the broadband committee.
Johnson Newspaper Corp. New York broadband providers are slow to react to the details of a new state program requiring mid-sized and large companies to provide internet service for low-income families for $15 per month. The state’s historic $212 billion budget, which the Legislature adopted nearly a week late Wednesday night, mandated a new program requiring companies that provide internet connection to 20,000 households or more to offer broadband service of at least 25 Mbps at the discounted rate of $15 per month to state households in need. Lara Pritchard, senior director of communications for Charter Communications’s Northeast Region, would not comment on the state’s new program or the potential fiscal impacts on the company.
New York broadband providers are slow to react to the details of a new state program requiring mid-sized and large companies to provide internet service for low-income families for $15 per month.
The stateâs historic $212 billion budget, which the Legislature adopted nearly a week late Wednesday night, mandated a new program requiring companies that provide internet connection to 20,000 households or more to offer broadband service of at least 25 Mbps at the discounted rate of $15 per month to state households in need.
Lara Pritchard, senior director of communications for Charter Communicationsâs Northeast Region, would not comment on the stateâs new program or the potential fiscal impacts on the company.
Under a sunny sky for Saturday’s special town meeting, Westport Island voters agreed 79-1 to seek a ConnectME broadband infrastructure grant. Residents stood outside town hall for the vote that lets the Broadband and Cable Committee submit the grant.
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