What a relief: real broadband coming to downtown Great Barrington

Terry Cowgill for the Berkshire Edge (Feb. 27, 2018)

“Downtown Great Barrington seems like a bustling place. By Berkshire County standards, it’s like living or working in the fast lane – that is, unless you want to use the internet...New Marlborough resident Tim Newman, along with Selectman Ed Abrahams, has enticed Fiber Connect of the Berkshires, a Monterey-based broadband provider, to wire the core of downtown with fiber-optic lines that will bring standard download speeds of up to 1 gigabit per second. That’s a far cry from Charter-Spectrum, the cable television behemoth whose consumer-grade speeds max out at 100 megabits per second, or about one-tenth of Fiber Connect’s.” Read More.

Fiber Connect's broadband build-out off and running in Monterey - and it's picking up speed

Heather Bellow for The Berkshire Eagle (July, 2017)

“And it's moving fast. His company, Fiber Connect, has six employees who, with a few trucks, are stringing  fiber at a rate of about one mile per day. In just four days, Chait said, they had 40 homes ready for service.

And the company is about to announce to 40 households that some have fiber connections already, and all they have to do is call and sign up.” Read More