Through the end of September the Vermont Department of Public Service and the Agency of Transportation will be conducting drive tests on more than 6,500 miles of state roads to determine the actual level of mobile wireless coverage.
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When Christine Hallquist, the director of the Vermont Community Broadband Board, bought her house in Wolcott last year, the home had never had internet installed.
Dennis Roland with his new Starlink satellite internet dish When Dennis Roland retired to the hills outside Waterbury in 2014, he knew part of the price of a slower pace of life would be slower internet service. He
didn t know it would practically cost him his sanity. As a chemist at a New Jersey pharmaceutical company, Roland had been used to collaborating with colleagues around the world using lightning-fast internet services. But from his new home at the end of an unpaved road in the Worcester Range, Roland s connection was agonizingly slow when he had it at all. It would go out for a couple weeks at a time, which drove me nuts! Roland exclaimed.
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Two companies have won more than $3 million through a competitive process overseen by the Federal Communications Commission to bring high-speed internet service to unserved parts of Bennington County.
Consolidated Communications won $2,697,942 in support for 958 locations within the county, while SpaceX â the developer of Starlink, a satellite internet company â won $327,545 for 159 locations.
Across the country, as part of the same competitive process, more than $9.2 billion was awarded to a total of 180 bidders, who over the next decade will be tasked with bringing broadband âto over 5.2 million unserved homes and businesses,â according to a news release this month from the FCC, which awarded the funding through the first phase of its Rural Digital Opportunity Fund auction.