Monroe County and the City of Rochester are poised to hire a Denver-based firm to study their fiber networks and to help them figure out whether they could open the systems to outside users. Magellan Advisors has worked with several cities — from Riverside, California, to Hudson, Ohio, — to assess the state of their […]
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County, city to explore fiber options
Monroe County and City of Rochester officials want to hire a consultant to figure out how to best use their fiber networks. Over the years, county workers have installed 367 miles of fiber optic cable throughout Monroe’s towns and villages, and particularly in the City of Rochester, said Monroe County Executive Maggie Brooks during a […]
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Fiber growth speeds up
If any Ontario County community seemed poised to get a high-tech fiber optic Internet system, it would have to be Victor; it’s a fairly wealthy Rochester suburb that’s seen plenty of development. But in this case, assumptions don’t match reality. The tiny Village of Naples in the county’s rural southwest tip is actually the first […]
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The speed wars
When Time Warner Cable announced recently that it’s raising cable Internet rates, customer complaints were inevitable. And once the grumbling started, it became clear that many customers believe that they are going to pay more a month for less-than-stellar Internet connections. “Other people around the world do not pay close to what we pay for […]
