Nonprofit OneCommunity receives a grant to add nearly 1,000 miles of of fiber-optic cable to their high-speed broadband network, enlarging its range to 27 counties.
What does this mean?
The OneCommunity “middle-mile” fiber project will create a broadband superhighway for robust and affordable connectivity services through an open and provider-neutral network infrastructure. This means the high-speed network will be available for use by all of the region’s carriers, cable operators and private networks at reasonable rates and terms, allowing them to better serve business and residential customers. OneCommunity also will leverage this great regional asset to provide robust, affordable broadband services to public interest subscribers, called community anchor institutions.
The network will improve access to 21st century services for schools, hospitals, libraries and other.
And, oh yeah, the project will bring 500 jobs to the region.