Residents are expected to have access to service by the beginning of 2024.
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Village Trading Post in Minot reopens 2 years after devastating fire
Also in The Buzz: GoNetspeed fiber-optic internet service coming to Lisbon; Brazilian steakhouse planned for former Yvette’s Cocina on Main Street.
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Posted inThe Franklin Journal
Wilton votes to accept MCA grant
With the acceptance of the MCA grant on Tuesday, July 18, the Select Board will be able to move forward with Matrix Design Group to bring high-speed internet to Wilton.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
Maine will get $272 million in federal funds to expand broadband
More than $42 billion has been allocated nationwide to expand high-speed internet access, and Maine’s share is the largest of any state in New England.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
Maine wants to use $200 million to expand broadband access, starting where it’s needed most
The state is deciding how to use federal funds for improving high-speed internet access, and wants public input on some of the priorities that have been identified so far.
Posted inBusiness, Lewiston-Auburn, Maine
Fidium Fiber internet service available in parts of Lewiston and Auburn
About 18,000 homes and small businesses can order service; full coverage of area expected in coming weeks.
Posted inThe Franklin Journal
Wilton hears update on affordable internet plans
Chris Lynch of Matrix Design Group appeared in a special workshop with the Wilton Select Board on Tuesday, March 28, to cover some changes to their initial grant application, including a price reduction.
Posted inBusiness, Maine
New group forms to support faster Internet for all of Maine
PORTLAND — A group of businesses, nonprofits and policymakers supporting broadband expansion have formed the Maine Broadband Coalition to research and lobby in favor of bills supporting increasing Internet speeds in Maine. The group includes a number of organizations, companies and state officials who have previously advocated for expanding high-speed broadband and fiber-optic networks in […]
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Bill seeks to bring high-speed Internet to rural farmers, small businesses in Maine
AUGUSTA — Farmers in rural parts of Maine who struggle to maintain their businesses and ship their goods out to customers while dealing with slow, spotty or at times nonexistent Internet service are rallying behind a bill moving through the Legislature. The concept draft of the measure, LD 826, seeks to increase funding to the […]
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Workshop on high speed Internet for business offered
LEWISTON — Nancy Marshall, marketing and communications expert, will be the facilitator of a seminar on using the Internet to grow small businesses. Nationally, small business enterprises with high Web use grew at an average annual rate of 13 percent during the past three years, while those with low Web use rates grew at only […]