"My son and his family live in Germany.  I have a 2 year old granddaughter.  Without high speed internet provided to us in this part of rural Vermont by EC Fiber, I was unable to Skype with my family.  A one minute video would take hours to download versus minutes with EC Fiber.  Having high speed internet makes it possible to take part in their lives."

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• The next meeting of the ECFiber Governing Board is scheduled for Tuesday, May 8th, Oakes Hall, Room # 012, Vermont Law School, So. Royalton, 7 pm
  
  The monthly Governing Board meetings are open to the public and are a very good place to get the most up-to-date information. Meeting dates are listed above.

Fiber-Optic is the Ultimate Solution

It all began with the sounds of a dial-up modem screeching as it connected to the Internet. Then these connections graduated to a vast cable infrastructure. But what’s the next big technology for connecting an increasingly data-hungry world to the Internet?

Read the full article at Washingtonpost.com

Grassroots Connections Desperately Seeking Broadband

Look no further than Barnard, Chelsea, Strafford, Tunbridge or Thetford to find out why the provision of high-speed Internet service has been called the great infrastructure challenge of the 21st century. These and many other towns in Vermont represent broadband dead zones -- places inadequately served, if served at all, by commercial vendors.

Full story in the Valley News 2/15/12

"Straight talk from, arguably, the premier expert on the topic in America." Tim

The Case for Publicly Owned Internet Service: Susan P. Crawford

In cities and towns across the U.S., a familiar story is replaying itself: Powerful companies are preventing local governments from providing an essential service to their citizens. More than 100 years ago, it was electricity. Today, it is the public provision of communications services.

Read the full article at Bloomberg.com

Valley News  2/1/2012

Barnard Academy's Open House demonstrating the power of a fiberoptic connection to support multiple simultaneous educational application was a resounding success.  Here's how the school feels about their ECFiber fiberoptic service