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New York promised universal internet. For many upstate rural residents, it never came | News, Sports, Jobs


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Gov. Andrew Cuomo announces plans for New York to become the first state to offer universal access to high-speed Internet in 2016.
(Provided photo — David Sommerstein, NCPR)
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. ....

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New York promised universal Internet. For many North Country residents, it never came.


Gov. Andrew Cuomo, announcing plans for New York to become the first state to offer universal access to high-speed Internet in 2016. Photo: David Sommerstein
Dec 22, 2020
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. ....

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