Following the lead of other small Idaho cities such as Ammon and Emmett, McCall is creating a fiber-optic infrastructure, Rapid McCall, to provide up to 1 gigabit per second internet service to homes by next summer. McCall will install, own ...

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A Wisconsin-based company is building a network that will bring 700 miles of fiber-optic cabling – and high-speed internet – to North Idaho. The project, parts of which are due to be complete by November, is intended to bring fiber to ...

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The second meeting of the broadband task force, held in Twin Falls on July 17, focused on the internet infrastructure Idaho already has. But it isn’t clear how many Idaho citizens lack broadband internet, and presentations during this meeting contradicted ...

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Members of the broadband task force met in Boise on June 19, with the goal of presenting a report to Gov. Brad Little on Sept. 25 about the state of broadband internet access in Idaho and with recommendations to improve ...

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COEUR D’ALENE — In many ways, getting broadband internet to rural Idaho feels familiar, said Mike Kennedy, president of Intermax Networks. “A lot of people are contemplating how similar this is to rural electrification in the 1930s,” Kennedy mused. As with ...

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McCall hopes to become a destination for tech workers, and it is looking to broadband internet to attract them. In response to an economic development summit last fall that found the McCall region had insufficient broadband internet, a regional organization ...

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Gov. Brad Little has formed a task force by executive order intended to improve broadband internet access in Idaho, a goal he laid out in his January State of the State. “In a data-driven society, connectivity is imperative for a ...

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Emmett is continuing to add fiber optic cabling to its city-owned network, and is starting to foresee the time when all city offices and resources are hooked up. At that point, the city can start thinking about how to provide ...

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Idaho’s west central mountain communities such as McCall, Donnelley, and Cascade are trying to attract workers to improve their economic development, and they see improved broadband internet access as one avenue. “It’s a community issue,” said Andrew Mentzer, executive director ...

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The most expensive part of installing fiber optic cabling to provide high-speed broadband internet to a community is the hole. Because entities such as roads, utilities and irrigation districts regularly dig up the ground anyway, some people are calling for ...

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