The network could provide communication, entertainment and data-transfer services in the region. WCNH.net is comprised of Orford, Lyme, Hanover, Enfield, Springfield, New London, Sunapee and Newbury. Hanover Town Manager Julia Griffin says preliminary estimates are that the network would cost $20 million.
The communities have been working on the project for three years. They plan to send officials to Galax, Va., this spring to meet with organizers of a similar effort known as ''The Wired Road.'' The Virginia network is expected to be finished in 2012 and provide rural residents voice telephone service, television, Internet access, telemedicine services, business videoconferencing, home and business security systems, movies on demand and other services.
Griffin says New Hampshire officials want to compare their plans to the Virginia project to see what can be done.
Information from: New Hampshire Union Leader, www.unionleader.com.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): (AP)
Quelle/Source: WBZ, 12.05.2008
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