[Hidden-tech] Internet Access

[Noah Paessel]

I just moved to Leverett in June. The fact that every house in Leverett has fiber connectivity was a major  consideration for our choice to move here. We have silky smooth 1GB connectivity at our home, and as yet, no outages.

All houses in leveret are remote, connected by dirt roads, and built on top of precarious stone ledges.

 If Leverett can do this, any municipality would be capable. I don't know how hard it was to get this thought local government, but I am sure it will pay dividends.

Here is a page that describes Leverett's fiber arrangement, including links to supporting local, state, and federal studies: https://lmlp.leverettnet.net

Municipal broadband is the appropriate response to the degradation of Net Neutrality regulatory oversite.  Keep the dream alive!

Cheers,

- Noah

On Dec 29, 2017, 9:29 PM -0500, Mark D. Hamill <markdhamill at gmail.com>, wrote:
> As was pointed out there are some municipal networks available or under construction in western Massachusetts. They are under construction in Holyoke, Greenfield and Leverett. Apparently Westfield has one.
>
> A couple weeks ago I had a chat with the mayor of Northampton on a municipal network, inspired by the discussion here back in November. He was very informed about it and is not opposed to it but doesn't see it as a pressing priority.
>
> Anyone in Northampton interested in seeing the city construct such a network might want to chime in with Mayor Narkewicz (mayor at northamptonma.gov). He did point me to a study the city did that's about a year old. Most of it does not address a public municipal network, but how to extend what they have for broader city government and school use. However, section 6.1 of the document talks about what would be required to build a public municipal network. The mayor believes it would be more expensive to build one in Northampton than most places because houses are relatively spread apart.
>
> http://www.northamptonma.gov/DocumentCenter/View/6799
>
> If there are enough Hidden Tech people in Northampton, we might want to take this up as an issue for lobbying, form an ad hoc committee and get the city council to take a stand on it. We might publish an OpEd in the Gazette or do some sort of news conference to draw attention to the issue. I have already addressed it with the mayor and my Ward 7 council member.
>
> Mark
>
> > On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 6:55 PM, EJ Lafleur <ejlafleur at comcast.net> wrote:
> > > Your only option is to move, Charter is in Easthampton, Belchertown, Chicopee, Wilbraham, Ludlow, and East Longmeadow. Everyone else in the area with cable is Comcast
> > >
> > > Sent from my iPhone
> > >
> > > > On Dec 29, 2017, at 5:46 PM, Tom Kopec <tek at acm.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Move to Westfield? /snark
> > > >
> > > > My daughter is very happy with their municipal fiber service, she's been
> > > > on for a month and did the final Comcast disconnect today..
> > > >
> > > > Which might be a lesson for other cities and towns 'round these parts...
> > > > just sayin' ..
> > > >
> > > >> On 12/29/2017 4:18 PM, HTH Consulting wrote:
> > > >> I have gotten disgusted with Comcast. I am happy with their high-speed Internet access, Blast, for $79/mo, but I can’t seem to unbundle from everything else. Charter-Spectrum seems to be the only other access in the Northampton area. I will not use satellite ever again. Charter-Spectrum doesn’t seem to offer higher speeds than their entry-level 60. Does anyone know of any other options in my area?
> > > >>
> > > >> Thank you,
> > > >> Lesley
> > > >
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