A new telecom provider is formally launching services Nov. 1 in Port Angeles,...
A new telecom provider is formally launching services Nov. 1 in Port Angeles, Wash., according to the Metro-Net website (http://xrl.us/bnuhtw). “Metro-Net relies on wireless technology to deliver the ‘last mile’ connection,” the service’s website said. The city emphasizes the network’s…
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benefits to both the community and for public safety purposes. Metro-Net is “designed and built by Capacity Provisioning, Inc. ... made available to the public through a non-exclusive partnership with local ISP OlyPen, which will then share subscription revenues with the City of Port Angeles,” said the city. Port Angeles “will share in the revenues from Metro-Net, helping pay for the ongoing operations and maintenance of the infrastructure for the first responders,” it said. A federal Broadband Technology Opportunities Program grant of $2.6 million helped fund the network, said the city. Port Angeles touts Metro-Net as the “first city-wide wireless network in the state of Washington” and “one of the only wireless networks to share an infrastructure with a separate first-responder public safety network” on its site.