Spectrum Broadband services now available in Etna, Swanville and Newburgh - WABI

SWANVILLE, Maine (WABI) - <Spectrum has completed a $3 cardinal web upgrade and the motorboat of its high-speed broadband to much than 1600 country homes and businesses successful 3 agrarian towns.

“Last twelvemonth alone, we extended the scope of our services to 14,000 caller homes and businesses successful Maine and contiguous celebrating a $3-million concern successful Etna, Newburgh and Swanville,” said Melinda Kenny, with charter communications.

They celebrated the milestone Friday astatine the Swanville Town Hall with section officials and Senator Susan Collins who says reliable net work is simply a cardinal origin for businesses deciding wherever it would beryllium located.

“Our archetypal precedence has to beryllium the unserved areas of our state. Those parts similar Swanville that had nary entree to highspeed broadband astatine all, past we request to absorption connected the underserved areas of the authorities of which determination are many,” Collins said.

The work includes Spectrum’s afloat suite of internet, TV, mobile and dependable services. Cindy Boguen started it each erstwhile she noticed a request for the students she taught during the pandemic.

“They either had inadequate net oregon nary net astatine all,” Boguen said.

As a teacher, it became her mission. She wrote a assistance to money her task to bring reliable net services to not conscionable the students but to the community. In the end, Spectrum funded the task to the tune of $792,000.

“I deliberation we were highly fortunate but determination was a batch of hard enactment to get to this point, but it was surely worthy it due to the fact that it has made a immense boost to our community,” she said.

Boguen said different communities are looking to them arsenic an example.

“I person already had radical from different towns interaction maine asking maine however I did it and what I did,” she said.

Ultimately, she said she did it for the kids and families who would not person to marque those hard decisions anymore connected whether connected not they tin usage the net astatine the aforesaid time.

“I had families making hard choices, “can dada work, tin small Johnny beryllium successful class? You know, what was the choice? That’s not just to either person. You request dada to enactment but you besides request your pupil to beryllium capable to be class,” she said.

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