from the listserv May 12, 2013
Some "news" really is too good to be true. The business section of the Sunday Valley News carried two stories about ECFiber, one focusing on the town of Vershire, and the other describing our expansion plans in other towns incuding Norwich. Unfortunately, there were some fairly serious misquotes and errors in the second story. I did _not_ say that we expect to connect people in "almost all of Norwich" by next fall. Almost all of two or three unserved Norwich neighborhoods, maybe, but at best perhaps 5 or 6% of the town as a whole.
Among other errors, ECFiber is not already "delivering service to 23 municipalities in the Upper Valley and other parts of the state," and the reference to "service from Barnard to Vershire" is true alphabetically but not geographically. We now have customers connected in Royalton, Bethel, Barnard, Pomfret, Chelsea, and Vershire, and fund-raising efforts are underway in Pomfret and West Windsor as well as the towns mentioned in the article.
Lsst but not least, Strafford residents have had some fun today renaming their mis-spelt town as "Stratford on the Ompompanoosuc."
I only wish we could make things happen as fast as the news reporter seems to have imagined, but we're doing our best.
Thanks,
Irv Thomae (Chair, as well as Norwich delegate, ECFiber.)
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