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Towns ask state to improve reliability of ‘middle mile’ internet network    Published: 4/22/2021 10:41:25 AM Citing recent problems, leaders of more than a dozen publicly owned broadband systems are asking a state tech agency to make the “middle mile” network more reliable, preventing service gaps that leave people in rural areas without phones as well as internet access. The state, in response, says towns are in a position to find solutions as well, by working with the network’s operator and their internet service provider. “It’s going to take some money and some time, we ac...

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 orig...