Hanover, New Hampshire, Looks To Build Open-Access Fiber Networks
Hanover, New Hampshire, is looking at how it can create voluntary special assessment districts that could finance open-access fiber networks, said Town Manager Julia Griffin during a Community Broadband Bits podcast, hosted by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance. New Hampshire's…
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current law doesn't allow towns and cities in the state to invest in broadband, Griffin said. But the New Hampshire governor recently signed a bill that allows towns and cities to authorize special assessment districts that let residents and local businesses opt into an assessment that would finance construction and allow them to pay it off over many years, she said. The town is looking at building communications infrastructure underground instead of on poles, Griffin said.