Funding is key to expanded broadband

ADDISON COUNTY — When the Vergennes City Council voted to join Maple Broadband on April 13, it marked a milestone: Every community in Addison County now belongs to a Communications Union District, or CUD, and 20 of them have signed on with Maple Broadband. Vermont’s nine CUDs are legal entities in which multiple towns band together as a quasi-municipal entities for the purpose of building out faster internet infrastructure. Notably, CUDS can cooperate to expand broadband internet service into unserved and u … (read more)

ADDISON COUNTY — Addison County residents in rural areas could see a new source of affordable, robust broadband internet service in the not-too-distant future. Selectboards in Ferrisburgh, Leicester, New Haven, Monkton and Salisbury recently voted to form … (read more)