Montana LECs to Build Fiber to All Rural Schools by 2018, Says Report
Rural telecom companies in Montana aim to connect all rural schools in the state with fiber or -- in the most remote places -- point-to-point wireless connections by year-end 2017, the Montana Telecommunications Association said Tuesday. That will provide 1…
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Mbps bandwidth per student, MTA said in a rural broadband report on efforts by the association’s nine member companies and cooperatives. Today, 78 percent of Montana schools are connected with at least 100 kbps per student, it said. MTA members spent $248.6 million on fiber broadband infrastructure since 2011, it said. “Our members serve areas of the state where cows and deer greatly outnumber houses and businesses,” said MTA General Manager Geoff Feiss. “We’re connecting rural Montanans to the kinds of advanced communications services and plentiful bandwidth that they’ll need to thrive.”