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County official disputes Columbia Forward critique, outlines broadband progress and pilot study plans
Summary
County staff responded to a Columbia Forward website critique about broadband progress, reported a large drop in unserved addresses, and described a proposed pilot study with the state to test wireless and tower sites.
A county staff presenter disputed a critique on a local advocacy website that said Columbia County had fallen behind other New York counties in applying for broadband funding, and outlined steps county officials say have reduced the number of unserved addresses substantially. The presenter said the county’s 2015 inventory (by ECC Technologies) originally identified about 3,000 unserved and 10,000 underserved addresses. Since then, he said, the county and state reconciled…
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