GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. The town is working with Fiber Connect to bring seamless, free public high-speed WiFi service to downtown Great Barrington. "We will soon be able to.
The former mill building known as Cookâs Garage, as seen from across the Housatonic River in Housatonic village. Town officials are exploring a fiber-optic broadband system for Housatonic that they believe might help attract developers and businesses to old mill buildings. EAGLE FILE PHOTO
GREAT BARRINGTON â Town officials still are pressing for utility companies to tell them what it would take to build a fiber-optic hub that would help bring broadbandâs gold standard into a village whose vacant mills and other old buildings cry for reawakening.
With broadband, itâs rarely quick â workers have to go pole by pole to investigate the capacity of each, and learn from National Grid and Verizon what it all might cost.