Two communication districts in Vermont planned to jointly build and operate an open access fiber network to serve communities with unreliable access to high-speed broadband. However, plans fell apart last week. VTDigger reported that Lamoille FiberNet and Northwest Fiberworx nearly inked a deal with Google Fiber, but the ISP walked away. Google Fiber said it lacked confidence in Lamoille FiberNet and the project, so it declined to become the first ISP on the network.
According to Sean Kio, executive director of Northwest Fiberworx, the company still wants to build, own and maintain an open access network in the three counties it serves. However, he added that without the addition of Lamoille FiberNet's customers (14,000 addresses), it couldn't meet Google Fiber's 42,000 minimum addresses requirement. Continue Reading
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