ConnectMaine Opens Applications for Broadband Bond Money
ConnectMaine has opened applications for about half of the $15 million in bond money approved by voters last July to fund high-speed broadband infrastructure projects in unserved and underserved communities in the state. by Lori Valigra, Bangor Daily News / February 26, 2021 Mercedes Mehling/Unsplash
(TNS) ConnectMaine Authority opened applications Thursday for about half of the $15 million bond money approved by voters last July to fund high-speed broadband infrastructure projects in unserved and underserved communities in the state.
The authority, which oversees the bond money, will hold two rounds of applications, the second early in the summer after town meetings,
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Jack Dexter has lived on Cod Cove Farm Road for 30 years. In that time, two things have not changed: A spectacular view of the Sheepscot River and unreliable internet speed. BILL PEARSON/Boothbay Register
Jack Dexter moved to Edgecomb in 1990 and his Cod Cove Farm Road home has a spectacular view of the Sheepscot River. What the location lacks is reliable internet. Dexter and his six Cod Cove Farm Road neighbors have internet through Consolidated Communications which provides three megabytes per second. “ConnectME considers speeds that low as being underserved,” Dexter said. “We have internet, but there is a lot we can’t do because of the speed.”