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NAHA Chosen for Apartment Wi-Fi Program

This initiative aims to enhance digital equity and connectivity for residents, ensuring that everyone has equal access to high-quality internet services.

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Municipal Services Could Be Solution to Limited, Unreliable Internet

This first public meeting for North Berkshire plan for communities Adams, Cheshire, Florida, Lanesborough and North Adams included a presentation on current data and feedback on the key topics of broadband access, digital devices and digital literacy.

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Pittsfield Hosting Digital Resource Fair

Ensuring residents can use the internet to conduct activities of daily life from finding a job to reaching their doctor or connecting with family is the focus of the city's work to create a Digital Equity Plan.

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Countywide Digital Equity Project Studies Pittsfield First

Pittsfield is the first of 14 local communities to participate in the digital equity planning project through the Massachusetts Broadband Institute and the Berkshire Regional Planning Commission.

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Readsboro Gets Connected to High-Speed Fiber Internet

After months of planning and engineering, DVFiber began constructing its new, 21st-century fiber optic network in 2022, focusing first on Readsboro where most households and businesses have lacked adequate Internet service for a long time.

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Dalton Library Upgrading Internet, Replacing Return Bin

The library's primary provider Crocker, through CW Mars (the Central and Western Massachusetts Automated Resource Sharing consortium), will have the the new routers hooked up by Oct. 1.

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Pittsfield Expands Downtown Public Wi-Fi Network

The expansion was made possible through the commonwealth's Community Compact Cabinet Information Technology Grant Program.

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Williamstown Officials Discuss Pros, Cons of Municipal Fiber Optics

Although no decisions were made and no votes were taken, the general gist of the conversation was that there are a lot of unknowns and risks that the town has to consider before taking that step.

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Williamstown Broadband Survey Indicates Support for Town Project

But at least 60 percent of all homes and businesses on such a network would have to make such a switch to make the project sustainable.