Broadstripe will connect about 700 residents in southern...
Broadstripe will connect about 700 residents in southern Anne Arundel County, Md., to high-speed broadband in the next several days, said county officials in a news release Monday (http://bit.ly/1gTzRZe). Anne Arundel was one of nine jurisdictions to participate in One…
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Maryland’s Inter-County Broadband Network (ICBN) with funds from the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program, said county officials. Before the construction of the network, studies found residents in the region were “completely unserved by any form of wireline broadband service,” they said. The ICBN program built about 800 miles of fiber to nearly 700 schools, libraries and other community anchor institutions in central Maryland, and Anne Arundel took the initiative “a step further” by building fiber connections to a 30-square mile area to allow broadband connectivity directly to residents, said county officials.