{"id":299080,"date":"2025-07-28T17:58:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T17:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/299080\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T17:58:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T17:58:11","slug":"community-network-in-arrowsic-maine-aims-to-weather-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/299080\/","title":{"rendered":"Community network in Arrowsic, Maine aims to weather competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNews<br \/>\nThe Maine town of Arrowsic\u2019s community-owned broadband network is facing potential strain amidst new competition.<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.noahwire.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Noah Wire Services<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the small town of Arrowsic, Maine, the arrival of a major broadband provider has sparked tensions with advocates for the community\u2019s locally built internet network.<\/p>\n<p>A recent <a href=\"https:\/\/themainemonitor.org\/arrowsic-broadband-challenge-fidium-fiber-network\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report by The Maine Monitor<\/a> details the conflict, which pits The Arrowsic Broadband Authority against Fidium Fiber, a subsidiary of Consolidated Communications.<\/p>\n<p>The Arrowsic Broadband Authority provides broadband to the town\u2019s approximately 500 residents, as The Maine Monitor reports. However, several months ago, the town\u2019s residents reportedly received mailers from Fidium Fiber.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bbcmag.com\/nominations-have-opened-for-our-2025-multifamily-top-100\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-26539\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/MF-Top-100-1024x120.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"120\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to the report, Fidium offered broadband at a price significantly lower than the town\u2019s pricing.<\/p>\n<p>A local broadband commissioner was quoted in the report, warning that The Arrowsic Broadband Authority is \u201cliterally on the edge of maintaining that network because we have such a small customer base.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fidiumfiber.com\/news\/fidium-fiber-helps-bridge-connectivity-gap-in-maine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fidium Fiber has rapidly expanded across Maine<\/a> in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, the company expanded access to over 294,000 homes and businesses in Maine.<\/p>\n<p>Total Telecom is trialing AI tools for content generation. Please flag any errors!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Get content like this delivered to your inbox.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bbcmag.com\/newsletter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Also, subscribe to the Broadband Communities newsletter<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"News The Maine town of Arrowsic\u2019s community-owned broadband network is facing potential strain amidst new competition. Source:\u00a0Noah Wire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3161],"tags":[3082,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-299080","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-internet","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114932161323204204","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}