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DVFiber update, August 2021

Below are links to four news items concerning DVFiber. For more news about DVFiber and connecting to the Internet with Vermont’s new communications union districts in the coming weeks and months, go to dvfiber.net, sign up for Connecting to our Future, our quarterly newsletter, and like us (DVFiber) on FaceBook.

In July, DVFiber formed a public/private partnership with Great Works Internet (GWI) to work together to secure high-speed Internet service for every home and business in our 24 town communications union district. To learn more, go to https://dvfiber.net/dvfiber-to-partner-with-great-western-internet-to-secure-broadband-access/.

Governor Scott recently appointed Christine Hallquist to be the executive director of the newly formed Vermont Community Broadband Board. See https: //dvfiber.net/hallquist-to-lead-vermont-community-broadband-board/.

Read VTDigger’s recent article and listen to The Deeper Dig: How to spend a broadband windfall podcast interview with Hallquist.
(https://vtdigger.org/2021/07/20/the-deeper-dig-how-to-spend-a-broadband-windfall/)

Vermont’s new 10-year telecom plan prioritizes communications union districts, private partnerships. (https://vtdigger.org/2021/07/25/new-10-year-telecoms-plan-prioritizes-broadband-districts-private-partnerships/)