NCC
- America’s Most Rural State: Connecting Communities Across Maine (NCC April 30, 2021)
- Next Century Cities Hosts Regional Summit with Over 250 Broadband Leaders in Maine (NCC Sept. 29, 2015)
- Next Century Cities Hosts Digital New England, a Regional Broadband Summit in Maine, Featuring Senator Angus King (NCC Sept. 28, 2015)
- Members: Belfast, Islesboro, Lewiston, Penobscot, Rockport, Sanford, Scarborough, South Portland
Other news
- Maine: Gov. Janet Mills announces $128 million to expand broadband, from American Rescue Plan funds Government Technology
- Hancock County, Maine Broadband Forum Notes
- Working with a consultant
- In information gathering stage
- Planning to see how far their initial SLFRF funding ($5.3 million) could get them
- Each city is doing something slightly different, but county is convening them to talk about the overall plan and coordination
- Rangeley Region Economic Opportunity Committee and the Greater Franklin Development Council in Maine project moving forward to provide residential broadband
- Four municipalities partnering with service providers
- CEO of Mid-Maine Chamber of Commerce calls for permanent Emergency Broadband Benefit, calls broadband an essential service
- Communities in Maine receive broadband bond funding
- Southport, Maine voting on municipal broadband (April 5, 2021)
- Pandemic straining internet speeds in Maine
- Bar Harbor, Maine building its own fiber network
- Katahdin Region Broadband Utility (Maine 2018)
- Project: Connect Cumberland (Cumberland County, Maine)
- Maine Connectivity Authority Allocates $10 Million to ConnectMaine for Spring 2022 Grant Round | Maine Connectivity Authority
- Legislative committee approves first president of Maine Connectivity Authority to lead broadband expansion. “The job of the Maine Connectivity Authority …” Butcher said in opening remarks, “… is to turn the challenge of affordable, reliable, universal digital connectivity in Maine into not just a possibility but a present force.”
- Bremen becomes 1st midcoast Maine town to make high-speed broadband available to all (partnership with family-owned provider Tidewater)
- “Members of the broadband committee such as Sam Hafford, a former lineman for a telephone company, helped set up homeowners with conduits prepared with a string to pull the wire through during the installations.”
- Tidewater is planning to recreate the Bremen project in several other towns in the area, including Hope, Appleton and Bristol.
- “Virtual health care could allow people to live in their house longer instead of moving to an elderly care center, Hanly said.”
- OTO Fiber Corp., a joint venture between Old Town, Orono and the University of Maine, is activating the first part of its network, which is a decade in the making
- Andrew Butcher, director of the Maine Broadband Coalition, will be nominated to head a new state agency tasked with rapidly accelerating Maine’s effort to make broadband internet service available to all residents of the state.