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22 Towns in Massachusetts Are Building Their Own Gigabit Fiber Network
Large swaths of rural Western Massachusetts are about to get gigabit fiber internet after residents in 22 separate towns decided to join a government cooperative designed to bring high speed broadband to places where traditional cable companies refuse to offer service. The towns have secured $34.5 million in government bonds to undertake the project, which is expected to cost a total of $79 million.
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I'm interested to see how this works out. New England has had stalled quite a bit as far as investing in new internet infrastructure is concerned. I was starting to think nothing to be happening in the foreseeable future.