Charter Communications plans to build network in Warwick, Royalston
A digital map of Warwick from the Federal Communications Commission website. Screenshot
A rendering of houses in Warwick that would not be served by the Charter Communications’ broadband network, as seen on the Federal Communications Commission website. Charter would reportedly have to build its network to serve up to 96 percent of Warwick and Royalston. Screenshot
Published: 5/11/2021 6:23:35 PM
WARWICK The Selectboard is expected to hear a draft agreement from Charter Communications to build its own broadband network in Warwick, following a Federal Communications Commission reverse auction.
Town Coordinator and Warwick Broadband Chair David Young said he “welcomes the competition” of another internet service provider, as Warwick already provides broadband service through a town-owned network. He also noted the town has been speaking with AT&T to “overbuild” on the town’s broadband system to he
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Royalston broadband awaits vendor contract OK; one paragraph at issue
Published: 4/22/2021 2:38:44 PM
Modified: 4/22/2021 2:38:42 PM
ROYALSTON Work on bringing broadband internet service to the town of Royalston after more than 10 years of hard, often frustrating effort is tantalizingly close, but details of a contract with one of the vendors, while near completion, remain to be worked out.
At a recent meeting of the town’s Broadband Committee, member Jon Hardie expressed confidence the agreement with BLiNQ Networks should be finalized soon. He said there is just one more issue to resolve.
Royalston’s Selectboard, acting on the recommendation of the committee, voted in March 2020 to award the contract for construction of the network to the Toronto-based company.
My Turn: Failure of the state MB123 broadband fiber network jacoblund jacoblund
Published: 4/8/2021 9:08:04 AM
On Monday, March 29, there was an internet outage for nearly 10 hours affecting six towns and over a thousand customers. It would have been more towns had they finished building their networks. The failure was due to a line down on the MB123 Middle Mile Network built and owned by the state.
The Massachusetts Broadband Institute (MBI) was established as the agency to build and manage the network. The funds allocated by the state legislature by emergency legislation in 2008 were originally intended to bring broadband service to 44 unserved communities, but the MBI accepted a matching funds grant from the federal government and built the MB123 Middle Mile network to 123 communities. It is restricted by the grant to only provide service to Community Anchor Institutions (such as libraries, schools, etc. ). Private companies would have to build out the “last mile” to cu
Petersham fetes completion of high-speed broadband project
Broadband crews prepare for the final fiber road crossing of Petersham s now completed broadband project. Contributed photo
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Modified: 4/6/2021 1:31:53 PM
PETERSHAM The Town of Petersham announced on March 29 that it has received its full Last Mile Grant funding in the amount of $880,000 from the Massachusetts Broadband Institute, marking the completion of the High Speed Fiber Optic Broadband Project that has been more than 12 years in the making.
Petersham becomes the 30th town among the 53 (partially served and unserved) Central and Western Massachusetts communities to have completed its Broadband Project.
Actual construction began just one year ago as part of Petersham’s partnership with Matrix Connected Fiber. According to Broadband MLP Board Chairman Chip Bull, “Petersham’s broadband project was by far and away the most ambitious and technically challenging project ever undertaken by the Tow
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