What is an iTown Local Community Public-Use Network?
The iTown Local Community Public-Use Network is a community-wide, ultra-high capacity broadband access infrastructure connecting all homes, businesses, government offices, schools and other community institutions to each other and to a variety of voice, video, Internet, data and advanced application service providers. The network is operated by a private company under non-profit objectives in partnership with and for the benefit of the local community. Back to Top Why build an iTown Local Community Public-Use Network? Communications infrastructure is essential to the economic well being of a community, just like electricity and water. The communications infrastructure must also be able to expand and adapt to changing business, consumer and public needs. However, in many non-metropolitan areas the existing infrastructure will not support current needs let alone future demands for new services and applications. Incumbent service providers have limited capital to invest. They make careful
