Select Board’s Moglin wants to continue discussion on fiber-optic network

Select Board’s Moglin wants to continue discussion on fiber-optic network

SOUTHWICK — After not getting the two-thirds needed for the borrowing authorization to build a town-owned fiber-optic network at Town Meeting, Select Board member Douglas Moglin wants the full board to discuss if it might be possible to move forward on a network that would be significantly a smaller in scale.And two major reasons are that the town has already encumbered $900,000 of American Rescue Plan Act funds and a $250,000 state grant that m…

Palo Alto Prepares for Fiber Network

June 5, 2025 – The city of Palo Alto, Calif., moved closer to officially releasing its city-operated fiber network, a project in development since 2022. The city announced the network’s pricing and addressed expected market competition. In December 2022, the city of Palo Alto – a small city near San Francisco with a population of 64,000 and 26,000 households – launched a $102 million Fiber to the Home/Premises Project. The project came in respon…