Segee quoted in BDN article on Old Town’s consideration of fiber optic Internet
Bruce Segee, the Henry R. and Grace V. Butler Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maine, was quoted in a Bangor Daily News article about how Old Town city leaders chose to move forward with plans to spend $80,000 to connect local residents and businesses to the state’s open 1,100-mile fiber optic cable infrastructure project known as the “Three Ring Binder,” according to the article. Current “upload speeds are abysmal,” Segee told the finance committee. The proposed three miles of connecting fiber would add high-speed Internet fiber along Main Street and Stillwater Avenue that would connect to Orono’s planned route along Bennoch Road and into the town’s downtown, Segee said. “The ultimate hope — the goal — is to have inexpensive gigabit service to homes and businesses,” he said.