Broadband Service in Newport Tennessee?

By Caleb Abramson

NPT Staff WriterNEWPORT-Friday morning, representatives of Connected Tennessee,

an independent non-profit organization that strives to use

technology to improve infrastructure within the state, presented

a program about broadband Internet connections at the

Cocke County Chamber of Commerce.

Michael Ramage, executive director of Connected Tennessee

and Steve Buttry, e-connected project manager, discussed the

benefits of becoming a broadband county. High-speed Internet

is commonly referred to as broadband and the

Tennessee Broadband Task Force was established to study the

challenges related to providing this service to all Tennesseans.

The 2007 executive report preview for Tennessee has a Task Force

report issued in January that states, "Broadband expansion is to

the 21st century what rural electrification was to the 20th century

...High-speed Internet access...is critically important to Tennessee's

future, especially in jobs, education and healthcare."Ramage told the

Chamber of Commerce Cocke County is one of only

four Tennessee counties he has visited to discuss plans for

introducing plans for a broadband Internet. Cocke County is

the only county he and Buttry have visited in East Tennesse.

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!

 Viewed 2244 times by 348 viewers