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New internet service provider seeks to add alternative in Lebanon, York Hal Conte, Lebanon Daily News Providing internet service during the new coronavirus pandemic Replay Video UP NEXT NetKey Communications is set to bring a local alternative to major internet providers in the area, with services beginning in April in York and in September in Lebanon. “NetKey is an idea I’ve had a long time,” said Gary Schaeffer, a partner at the company. "It’s much-needed. I kept seeing the digital divide even before the pandemic. After the pandemic, this became magnified.” Th...

The company will offer internet, voice-over-internet protocol, and AT&T TV in business and residential plans and will be installing a "fiber optic internet backbone" that will be distributed via the company's wireless network. The company will use a location at 701 Hay St. in York and the Paper Box Factory at 1131 Cumberland St. in Lebanon, owned by Bryan Donovan, a partner at the company. Schaeffer said the company’s prices on internet access will be “not all that different” from Comcast’s, and said that they would include options Comcast does not. The higher-level packages ...