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BRIEF: Portland, Maine, Mayor Announces Goal of Citywide Broadband

In his State of the City address, Mayor Michael Brennan said he planned to convene a working group to pursue the establishment of citywide fiber-optic broadband Internet service.

(TNS) PORTLAND, Maine — In the last State of the City speech of his four-year term, Mayor Michael Brennan announced plans to pursue citywide fiber-optic broadband Internet service.

He said he planned to convene a working group to pursue the establishment of citywide fiber-optic broadband Internet service, an effort he acknowledged would be logistically and financially expensive.

“By wiring the city it will ensure our economic and social future,” Brennan said. “We talk about building roads and building highways and building housing, but one of the key pieces of infrastructure for the city moving forward is high-speed Internet.”

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