The Adobe Flash Player is required to view this multimedia interactive. Get it here.
Home  >  Living  >  Technology

Maine company to lay 1,100 miles of optic cable

Hot Topics

The Associated Press 2:21 PM Tuesday, February 9, 2010

PORTLAND, Maine — A new company is promising to lay 1,100 miles of fiber optic cable across Maine to help expand high speed Internet service to remote parts of the state.

Maine Fiber Co. will use $25.4 million in stimulus funding from the U.S. Department of Commerce to help build a high capacity rural broadband network.

Starting this spring Maine Fiber will begin installing the fiber optic cable for the Three Ring Binder project.

The project will provide broadband service within more than 100 rural Maine communities with 110,000 households, 600 community institutions, and 38 government facilities that are not served today.

___

February 09, 2010 07:05 PM EST

Copyright 2010, The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

We welcome your comments. Please remember this is a public forum and behave appropriately. Your comments must conform to our visitor's agreement.

The form has errors highlighted in red, please review these entries and try again!



Comments are limited to 500 characters


500 character limit

Incorrect please try again


These words come from scanned books.
Entering them helps digitize old texts.


Breaking news by e-mail

Start your day with top headlines in your inbox and get breaking news e-mail alerts at any time by subscribing to our Headlines e-mail newsletter.

See Sample | Privacy Policy
SIGN UP
View All

Home Tours

Lifestyle photos & videos

Latest entertainment blog posts


About our ads

About our ads

Home | News | Sports | Entertainment | Opinion | Life | Recreation | Jobs | Cars | Homes
Advertising Media Kit | Online Ad Studio | Advertiser Tools | Customer Service | Our Partners | RSS | Site Map

Copyright © 2010 Hamilton Journal-News, Hamilton, Ohio, USA.All rights reserved.

By using this site, you accept the terms of our Visitors Agreement and Privacy Policy. About our ads. You may wish to note our other business policies.

This website is ACAP-enabled