Vermont Business Magazine NEK Broadband has successfully taken another step forward in offering truly high-speed internet to the Kingdom. In February, 182 new homes and businesses along all or part of 16 roads in Concord and Lunenburg became able to connect to this reliable fiber optic network to meet educational, social, business and other personal goals. All or part of 16 roads now have access to NEK Broadband internet. In some areas there are technical reasons that we can’t complete an entire road at the same time. Service will become available in the future to areas of these roads that have utility poles but are not yet connected to our network.
People in Caledonia, Essex, and Orleans counties, plus Wolcott in Lamoille county, who would like to keep track of when service will be available at their address can sign up for updates and pre-register at https://get.nekbroadband.org/.
In the next months, additional towns will see new service availability from NEK Broadband as it continues to fulfill its commitment to reach unserved and underserved addresses in our territory. Residents and businesses along completed routes now have access to fiber optic cable that provides symmetrical internet speeds from 50Mbps to a Gigabyte per second. That means the same speed for uploads as downloads and there are never any data caps.
About NEK Broadband
NEK Broadband is a Communications Union District (CUD) representing every town in Caledonia, Essex, and Orleans counties, plus Wolcott in Lamoille County. We are a community-driven organization building public infrastructure to help ensure that every address that has existing electric utility service will have access to high-speed broadband service. As a municipality, we are a non-profit, so revenue from customers will go towards building and repairing infrastructure and increasing affordability for our residents.
Source: 2.23.2024. Northeast Kingdom, VT— NEK Broadband
