Broadband access is mostly a demand issue in...
Broadband access is mostly a demand issue in Maine, said David Maxwell, Connect Maine Authority program director, on the Maine Public Broadcasting Network Wednesday (http://bit.ly/19mdpn3). Maxwell joined two other members of the Maine Broadband Task Force on a daily call-in…
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radio show to talk about the obstacles of getting high-speed Internet access in Maine. “Most connections in Maine are Tier 1 or Tier 2, which we would consider your basic average,” said Maxwell. “There’s conflict when increasing demand is coming from the unserved and the underserved.” The broadband technologies are always changing, so the industry “needs to decide what level of service they are going to provide,” said Maxwell. The state would need $60 million to expand coverage to all areas of the state in a “few dozen years” and therefore the state “needs to do something different” in order to get the rest of the state connected, he said. The University of Maine wants to get 25 percent of all credits produced to be online courses, said Allyson Handley, University of Maine-Augusta president and Maine Broadband Task Force member, on the radio show. “We have a number of Mainers who have not completed their bachelor’s degrees, and technology will be a primary factor to make this program happen,” said Handley.