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Portsmouth Broadband Authority sets Dec. 31 target to complete city fiber ring, seeks ISP partners
Summary
At a meeting held without a quorum, the Portsmouth Broadband Authority presented the history and purpose of the city's fiber ring, set a Dec. 31 internal completion target and said it will seek ISP partners or resellers to bring service to underserved neighborhoods; no votes were taken.
The Portsmouth Broadband Authority on an unscheduled meeting discussed the status of the city's fiber ring, its role in encouraging private internet service providers and a Dec. 31 target to finish the internal network, officials said.
Agency official (S6) told board members an independent authority can enter into agreements with private providers in ways a municipality cannot, and said the board's role is to reduce deployment risk so ISPs will extend service into neighborhoods that otherwise would be left out. "We're not saying that the Internet service providers have to use a fiber drop all the way to the home," the agency official said. "We don't have a preference as to how they deliver the service. What we're trying to do is take some of the risk out of them having to build that backbone."
The presentation emphasized that federal and state grant…
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