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The Ten-Year Plan was developed in partnership with CTC Energy and Technology and Rural Innovations Strategies, Inc.
The 365-page Plan provides an overview of the current state of telecommunications services and facilities in the state, current trends in usage and adoption, and recommendations for improving access to broadband services throughout Vermont.
Specifically, the plan provides a roadmap to achieving the state’s most pressing telecommunications and broadband goals, including:
- Bringing every currently unserved and underserved on-grid Vermont home access to 100/100 megabits per second (Mbps) broadband that can be scalable to faster speeds as demand warrants;
- Leveraging residential fiber deployments into better mobile voice coverage along key roadways and in small communities;
- Ensuring that telecommunications systems are resilient, redundant, secure, and future-proof for commercial, consumer, and public safety needs…
