With larger providers having little economic incentive to upgrade internet infrastructure, some Western Massachusetts towns created their own municipal broadband networks, treating high speed internet as a public utility.
Frustrations climbed during the Municipal Light Plant board’s presentation this week to the select board over the future of a new municipal fiber-optic network.
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