BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) – Tired of waiting for state-of-the-art communications technology, voters of Vermont’s biggest city decided in 2000 to form their own company to provide telephone, Internet and cable TV service. Nearly 11 years later, city-owned Burlington Telecom offers Cadillac service – fiber-optic broadband – to nearly every home and business in the city. […]
Where are Comcast, FairPoint in Vermont?
EAST MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) – Marlene and Mike McCarty, real estate brokers who do much of their work at home less than four miles from the Vermont Statehouse, say they spend hundreds of dollars and hours each month on things they wouldn’t have to if they had broadband Internet access. Despite promises for years by […]
Vermont city’s foray into telecom hits $17M snag
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) – A public option for phone, cable and Internet seemed like a good idea when this Vermont college town launched Burlington Telecom four years ago. Now top city officials are under fire to explain a $17 million debt and whether taxpayer dollars are subsidizing an enterprise usually left to the private sector. […]