Midcoast Towns Look at LCI Fiber Initiatives and Midcoast Internet Consortium Publicly Owned Approach

 

 An April 15 article in the Village Soup Knox Edition reviews discussions in multiple midcoast towns.  What is the best model for providing modern broadband to everyone in a community?  Support for subsidizing the expansion of an existing provider's local network?  A regional non-profit utility that would fund and own the network in its entirety?  I single-town publicly owned broadband utility that contracts for provider services? 

With the prospect of substantial federal and state broadband funding an imminent reality, the choices for unserved and under-served communities have taken on increased urgency.  This article offers some very current and very local grist for that discussion.

https://knox.villagesoup.com/p/the-race-is-on-to-gather-towns-grants-for-expanded-broadband/1888082