Maine telecom company lands two grants for unserved communities
The New Gloucester-based OTT Communications, a division of Otelco Inc., was awarded a pair of ConnectME Authority matching grants for the telecommunications company to provide high-speed fiber optic broadband service to many unserved residents of Gray, New Gloucester and Lowell.
The two grants, which totaled $52,000, will be matched by an equal investment by the company and bring speeds of up to 150 Mpbs to at least 138 homes — 86 of which currently meet the ConnectME Authority definition of “unserved” with less than 1.5 Mbps of bandwidth, according to OTT.
“Many of the people living in Gray, New Gloucester and Lowell have told us what all rural Mainers know — you cannot work remotely or make a living in the modern economy with the equivalent of dial-up Internet speeds,” Otelco CEO Rob Souza said in a release. “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.”
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