More Tiny Towns Get MuniFied

This week alone three tiny towns - Vail in Colorado along with Rockland and Thomaston in Maine - unwired their future. Vail, selected CenturyTel to build its system following a competitive bid process that included proposals from six other companies. The deal is pretty much the same as in other towns that have been unwired.Free Internet access up to 300Kbps (kilobits per second) anywhere in town by the end of 2006. Vail will also offer higher speeds on a daily, weekly and monthly pay cycle. The situation in Rockland and Thomaston, both communities in Maine the situation was the one faced by many small communities. There was little or no broadband. The two towns teamed up with RedZone Wireless, that built the network, and now sells broadband in the $19.95 to $50.00 per month range. All three deployments are using Skypilot Networks’ equipment.