Comcast Rejected by Small Town -- Residents Vote For Municipal Fiber Instead

A small Massachusetts town has rejected an offer from Comcast and instead plans to build a municipal fiber broadband network. From a report: Comcast offered to bring cable Internet to up to 96 percent of households in Charlemont in exchange for the town paying $462,123 plus interest toward infrastructure costs over 15 years. But Charlemont residents rejected the Comcast offer in a vote at a special town meeting Thursday. 'The Comcast proposal would have saved the town about $1 million, but it would not be a town-owned broadband network,' the Greenfield Recorder reported Friday. 'The defeated measure means that Charlemont will likely go forward with a $1.4 million municipal town network, as was approved by annual town meeting voters in 2015.' About 160 residents voted, with 56 percent rejecting the Comcast offer, according to news reports.

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