Reports Continue on UMaine High-Speed Internet Collaboration

The business and technology magazine website CIO, the California-based Campus Technology, Mainebiz and the Maine Public Broadcasting Network carried reports about the Gig.U high-speed Internet broadband collaboration announced this week among UMaine, GWI Inc. Internet provider and 36 other leading research institutions across the country. The collaboration will provide Maine’s first commercial and residential gigabit Internet access, starting in the Old Town-Orono area. In his column in the Bangor Daily News, Michael Aube, president of Eastern Maine Development Corp. in Bangor, discussed the project in a piece about improving economic development opportunities in the Bangor area.

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