COOPER MUNICIPAL BROADBAND UPDATES
Fiber Broadband Internet Now Available in Cooper
September 25, 2024
Call 1-866-335-1254 to sign up for installation
For more information click here
September 25, 2024
Call 1-866-335-1254 to sign up for installation
For more information click here
Cooper Internet Project Updates:
May 30, 2024
Consolidated Communications has completed all the make ready work for the Cooper broadband project. Make ready is the moving of wires on every telephone pole to allow Downeast Broadband Utility via our network builder Pioneer Broadband to attach our fiber to the poles.
We have received the necessary licenses today.
Pioneer has multiple crews at the ready to begin construction. I will get a timeline from Pioneer and update everyone once that is in hand.
Downeast Broadband Utility, Cooper’s partner in all this has been doing very well. Signing up customers daily. Another Internet Service Provider has joined our network as well. That means there are now two providers, Pioneer and NCS Services. NCS is starting in Calais and will expand across all the DBU network moving forward.
When actual construction begins, we will be sure to let the people of Cooper know.
Thanks,
Daniel Sullivan
Consolidated Communications has completed all the make ready work for the Cooper broadband project. Make ready is the moving of wires on every telephone pole to allow Downeast Broadband Utility via our network builder Pioneer Broadband to attach our fiber to the poles.
We have received the necessary licenses today.
Pioneer has multiple crews at the ready to begin construction. I will get a timeline from Pioneer and update everyone once that is in hand.
Downeast Broadband Utility, Cooper’s partner in all this has been doing very well. Signing up customers daily. Another Internet Service Provider has joined our network as well. That means there are now two providers, Pioneer and NCS Services. NCS is starting in Calais and will expand across all the DBU network moving forward.
When actual construction begins, we will be sure to let the people of Cooper know.
Thanks,
Daniel Sullivan
September 20, 2023
The new Maine Connectivity Authority required more information and legal changes than was previously required under the ConnectME Authority. This caused a delay of almost 1 year in the project. Downeast Broadband Authority paid their lawyers to amend the contract to fulfill Maine Connectivity Authority requirements to enable Cooper and Princeton to receive their grants.
Pole licensing from the pole owner, Consolidated Communications is a very slow process. Consolidated’s behavior of slowing the process down is well documented. In Cooper’s case the first step to getting that license has been completed. Consolidated now has 180 days to complete their side of the bargain or face penalties. According to the contract, construction should begin November 29, 2023 but that will be determined by how quickly they give us the licenses to attach to the poles.
Actual construction, laying of support and fiber cables, testing would be next. Once the licensing is in place Pioneer assures me they have the crews ready to start. I will update the schedule then.
I will update Cooper once we have the licenses in hand.
Thanks,
Daniel Sullivan