OTT Communications brings 10GB broadband service to eastern and northern Maine
New Gloucester-based OTT Communications, a division of Otelco Inc., announced on Thursday that it will the first company to bring 10 gigabits per second broadband Internet service to the full northern ring of Maine Fiber Co.’s Three-Ring Binder network.
“Our company was formed by rural Mainers over 100 years ago when the major phone companies were uninterested in bringing the latest technology, then the telephone, to rural communities,” said Otelco CEO Rob Souza in a statement. “OTT’s investment to bring 10 gigabits per second of capacity to the full Northern Ring will foster our efforts to bring the very latest in communications and cloud services to the 77 rural Maine communities the Three-Ring Binder connects in Aroostook, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Hancock and Washington counties.”
Maine Fiber’s network is what is called “dark fiber,” meaning that while it owns the fiber-optic infrastructure, it doesn’t actually provide services to residential or commercial users. Under the agreement, OTT is paying to lease and “light” fiber to provide services to end users all along the route, and to have the capacity to expand services into new areas, according to a press release.
OTT has already signed two well-known Maine companies for the high-speed service offering — Woodland Pulp LLC and Jasper Wyman & Son, in addition to the new enterprise St. Croix Tissue Inc.
“Our two mills Woodland Pulp LLC and St. Croix Tissue Inc. are very excited to be able to access world class future proof fiber to provide the necessary bandwidth that is crucial to our businesses now and into the future,” said Dan Sullivan, IT Manager at Woodland Pulp and St. Croix Tissue. “We hope OTT’s venture into our area will be the catalyst to bring these super-fast future proof fiber connections to other local businesses and consumers.”
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