Segee quoted in BDN article on effort to bring high-speed internet to Orono, Old Town
Bruce Segee, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Maine, spoke with the Bangor Daily News for an article about leaders in Orono and Old Town planning to bring high-speed internet to their communities. As part of the effort, officials are conducting surveys to ask residents and business owners for input on where the lines should be located, according to the article. Orono and Old Town are partnering with UMaine to connect to the state’s open 1,100-mile fiber-optic cable infrastructure project known as the Three Ring Binder, the article states. Segee said the new internet connections will do more than just add speed. “This is high-bandwidth, bidirectional connections,” he said. “The services that can be run through it run the range of television and video to virtual reality gaming and telecommunications and any other thing people can image,” he said. “It’s going to be cool.” The plan is to start installing the high-speed connections in the summer of 2017 and complete the project a year later, the BDN reported. WABI (Channel 5) also reported on the project.