Vermont Business Magazine The Vermont Community Broadband Board (VCBB) is celebrating CVFiber, one of Vermont’s 10 Communications Union Districts (CUDs), on its launch of construction set for Wednesday, December 21.
CVFiber leadership will welcome state and local officials to the Calais Town Hall, 1662 Kent Hill Road, at 11 am to mark the start of construction of its 1,200-mile fiber network that will serve nearly 6,000 underserved locations throughout central Vermont.
The start of construction comes after more than four years of planning. CVFiber’s district includes 20 communities in central Vermont. The construction will begin in Calais, one of the most underserved communities in the area. They will begin connecting homes and businesses early next year.
CVFiber is a nonprofit municipality formed in March 2018. It is one of 10 CUDs in Vermont, tasked with building community-governed nonprofit broadband networks. CVFiber membership includes 20 communities that voted to create and join the organization. Each community appoints representatives to the Governing Board.
CVFiber communities include Barre City, Barre Town, Berlin, Cabot, Calais, Duxbury, East Montpelier, Marshfield, Middlesex, Montpelier, Moretown, Northfield, Orange, Plainfield, Roxbury, Washington, Waterbury, Williamstown, Woodbury, and Worcester.
More information can be found at https://cvfiber.net.
Vermont Department of Public Service, Montpelier. 12.16.2022.
