North Country Public Radio
Gov. Andrew Cuomo announces plans for New York to become the first state to offer universal access to high-speed Internet in 2016.
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Since Patsy LaFlam’s local library and senior center closed at the start of the pandemic, she’s developed a new mental map of places where she can access the internet.
“The city of Plattsburgh, the Trinity Park is a hotspot, the fire station in Altona, which is about 25 to 30 minutes from here is a hotspot,” she lists. “CVPH hospital … Lowe’s! Lowe’s is a hotspot.”
Broadband internet infrastructure hasn’t yet arrived to her and around 50 other houses on her road, in a community outside Plattsburgh. She’s looked into a personal wireless hotspot that gets internet from cell towers, but balked at the cost.