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Gov. Charlie Baker and Town Leaders Talk Over Video Skype at Stan Rosenberg’s Municipal Conference. Watch and Listen as Town Leaders Tell the Governor What Life Without Broadband is Doing to Their Towns.

David Dvore2019-10-21T20:41:08-04:00May 3rd, 2016|Top Stories, News|

Governor Charlie Baker expresses his point of view on the Commonwealth's Broadband Project and his reasons for insusting on a delay, and then takes comments and questions from the audience at a meeting of municipal leaders from Hampshire & Franklin Counties sponsored by Senate President Stan Rosenberg on 4/9/16 at Greenfield Community College. Town Leaders answer back, expressing [...]

Editorial: State Should Clear Air About Broadband Money

Bob Labrie2016-05-04T19:07:05-04:00March 24th, 2016|News, Top Stories|

"The Baker administration should clear the air regarding its plans for “last mile” broadband Internet money. Doing so would clear uncertainty that now exists for WiredWest’s effort to bring Internet to the county’s smaller towns." The Recorder - Editorial - March 22, 2016

Shutesbury & New Salem Broadband Committees’ response to The Recorder

admin2019-10-21T20:41:08-04:00March 7th, 2016|News, Top Stories|

In a recent article in the The Recorder, “Wendell Eyes WiredWest Alternatives,” it was implied that Shutesbury and New Salem are looking at ways to build a (small) regional network. While our broadband committees are continuously evaluating all options as a part of appropriate due diligence on this critical issue, we do not at this [...]

WiredWest Continues to Develop Plans as State Reviews Last Mile Broadband

admin2019-10-21T20:41:08-04:00February 6th, 2016|News, Top Stories|

WiredWest continues to actively develop its plans in coordination with the Massachusetts Broadband Institute (MBI). WiredWest will continue to push hard on behalf of and in concert with our towns and citizens for this desperately needed project to move forward. Every household, business, organization and town without access to high-speed Internet access is suffering today, [...]

Who Is Killing the Towns of Western Massachusetts?

David Dvore2019-10-21T20:41:08-04:00January 17th, 2016|News, Top Stories, Get the Latest Info|

by Susan Crawford. Reprinted from BackChannel. Read the original article. It may be the governor. In the State House. With the lobbyists. This is the story of a dramatic failure of imagination and vision at the state level: Governor Charlie Baker’s apparent insistence that Massachusetts relegate small towns to second-rate, high-priced, monopoly-controlled (and unregulated) communications [...]

CTC Report supporting WiredWest Business Model

David Dvore2019-10-21T20:41:09-04:00December 21st, 2015|News, Documents|

CTC Technology & Energy (Columbia Telecommunications Corporation) is an independent communications engineering consultancy that offers a unique combination of qualifications and capabilities in broadband financial analysis, business planning, engineering, network strategic planning, and marketing automation. If you are not sure what software to use to automate your business marketing then read Marketo vs Hubspot comparison. Founded [...]

WiredWest Board Creates Negotiating Team For MBI Meetings

admin2016-01-13T07:51:01-05:00December 20th, 2015|News|

The Board of Directors of WiredWest, at its meeting on December 19th, voted unanimously to appoint a select group of representatives from its member towns to negotiate with the Massachusetts Broadband Institute (MBI) to resolve differences between the organizations’ plans for last-mile broadband deployment in WiredWest towns. MBI issued a statement on December 1st saying [...]

WIredWest charges that MBI action ignores the will of the towns

admin2016-01-13T08:16:17-05:00December 4th, 2015|News|

Northampton, December 4 — WiredWest, the cooperative of towns in western Mass working together to build and operate a regional fiber-optic broadband network, has reacted strongly to the December 1st statement by the Massachusetts Broadband Institute denying funding to the WiredWest project. WiredWest found the statement to be based on distortions, unsubstantiated claims and innuendo [...]

Rebuttal to the Statement by the Massachusetts Broadband Institute of December 1, 2015

David Dvore2020-08-31T20:44:50-04:00December 1st, 2015|News, Archived Documents|

MBI said: “The MBI is committed to working with you to develop a sustainable plan for governance and operation of a regional network, and therefore will be prepared to partner with towns on new pathways to successfully expand broadband service as needed.” WW replies: The only way that MBI can work and partner with the [...]

THE REALITIES OF SMALL TOWNS BUILDING SINGLE-TOWN, HIGH COST, HIGH RISK NETWORKS

admin2019-10-21T20:41:09-04:00November 20th, 2015|News|

The Otis Select Board announced they will be pursuing their own solution for last-mile broadband, rather than the WiredWest regional solution. A town has every right to choose the course it takes, however, based on the extensive due diligence completed by WiredWest, this decision will increase the cost of bringing fiber-optic service to Otis as [...]

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