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County renews broadband construction and monitoring contracts; last year spending topped $379,000 for outside-plant work
Summary
Columbia County extended multiple one-year broadband contracts — including outside-plant construction and network monitoring — citing last-year expenditures of roughly $379,000 with Highlighter Cable Services and approximately $23,000 for monitoring services from Excedion.
Columbia County approved renewals of several broadband-related vendor agreements covering outside-plant fiber construction, equipment and network monitoring.
Mr. Blanchard, a county staff member who presented the items, said the contracts cover work such as trenching, conduit and fiber placement (outside plant) and network monitoring equipment and licensing. ‘‘This is how they bring new customers on…
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