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03/16/12
Connect Appalachia Broadband Task Force Discusses Future Broadband Coverage & Expansion
The Connect Appalachia Broadband Initiative Task Force held its third meeting Thursday, March 15, in Athens, which was hosted by Ohio University and held in the Baker University Center. Representatives from Frontier Communications and Time Warner Cable overviewed their anticipated broadband coverage efforts for the Appalachia Ohio region to Task Force members. The information is especially useful in guiding the Task Force’s focus on bridging future unserved gaps. Frontier Communications’ 2012 expansion plans include 24 new broadband deployments, multiple metro Ethernet site launches, and the continued use of loop extender technology, which...
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03/06/12
Broadband is Significant for School-Aged Children’s Connectivity
Upon the completion of the two-year project to get a tower installed in Knox Township in May of 2011, more than 300 households and businesses now have access to broadband Internet service. The project began in 2009 with Columbiana County officials and Omnicity, a fixed-wireless Internet service provider, collaborating for the approval of constructing a MARCS (Multi-Agency Radio Communication System) tower in the township. Connect Ohio worked in assisting this project through the last mile efforts of providing propagation studies and business models for Omnicity to know where to build and deploy, as well as assisting with partnerships....
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02/10/12
Stu Johnson Presents at Ohio Appalachian Task Force
Connect Ohio had the privilege of joining the Ohio Appalachian Task Force meeting hosted by the Corporation for Ohio Appalachia Development (COAD) Wednesday, February 8, at Stuart’s Opera House in Nelsonville. Executive Director Stu Johnson discussed the current state of broadband and technology adoption for Appalachian Ohio. Johnson opened the presentation by asking the nearly twenty attendees if they had broadband service at home. Four attendees had no home Internet service and two had service that didn’t meet their needs, which parallels the situation for the entire Ohio Appalachia area. According to Connect Ohio’s recent Technology...
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01/20/12
Connect Appalachia Broadband Initiative Commences with Inaugural Task Force Meeting
In December, the Governor’s Office of Appalachia in conjunction with Connect Ohio announced the launch of a special initiative to address the broadband divide facing rural Appalachia. Thursday, January 19, a task force comprised of state and local stakeholders conducted its first meeting and committed to help the region overcome connectivity barriers and digital literacy gaps. The Connect Appalachia Broadband Initiative (CABI) Task Force intends to pull Appalachia Ohio to within state and national standards in broadband adoption within 24 months by responding to requests for assistance from community leaders, private industry, Internet...
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