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Portland, Maine, Mayor Announces Goal of Citywide Broadband

January 23, 2015 /

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Bear Paw Development Corporation is a private non-profit organization created for the purpose of administering programs to help improve regional economic conditions in Hill, Blaine, Liberty, Chouteau and Phillips Counties and the Fort Belknap and Rocky Boy's Indian Reservations.

In his State of the City address, Mayor Michael Brennan said he planned to convene a working group to pursue the establishment of citywide fiber-optic broadband Internet service.

"By wiring the city it will ensure our economic and social future," Brennan said. "We talk about building roads and building highways and building housing, but one of the key pieces of infrastructure for the city moving forward is high-speed Internet."

by Seth Koenig, Bangor Daily News, Maine

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