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| The Vermont Telecommunications authority invites you to go to http://www.telecomVT.org and click on the link to the "Vermont Connectivity Map". The Vermont Connectivity Map is an online mapping application that the VTA has created to help us understand the real communications landscape in Vermont. By entering your home (or work) address on this map, and indicating the present connectivity status at that location, you will contribute to a state wide survey that will help us to advance the goal of 100% coverage in Vermont. Please do NOT use the map to indicate what you 'could' have, just what you are 'actually using' today. The virtual pins will allow us all to see where there are pockets of folk who only have dialup or satellite coverage. Local town broadband committees (check out Stowe…they have 550 pins so far), are using the map to organize neighborhood coffees to educate people on the use of new technologies, like Verizon EVDO cards in laptops and computers that access the Internet through the cellular phone network. People are also banding together to think of ways to encourage independent Vermont phone companies and cable companies to extend their coverage a bit further. The folk working on fiber projects can use the map to understand better what coverage is already available in their towns. If you are not happy with your current Internet access there is also a document on the site explaining all the various ways to get service today. Please enter your home today and ask your friends and workmates to enter theirs also. David Zahn Public Relations Committee |
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