“For more than a decade, we’ve worked tirelessly to reduce the number of unserved and underserved addresses in the county,” Matt Murell, R-Stockport, chairman of the Columbia County Board of Supervisors said Monday during the county Broadband Subcommittee meeting. “I’m proud to say that by working together locally and with New York state, we’ve brought that number down from over 3,000 unserved and 10,000 underserved to a combined total of approximately 700 addresses.” The county first began working toward improving access to broadband in 2015, with the commissioning of a countywide broadband survey.
The Columbia County Economic Development Corporation was also included in the efforts to coordinate the county’s push for broadband access, Murell said during Monday’s meeting. In 2017, the state also provided funding to the main internet service providers in the county, Consolidated Communications, Mid-Hudson Cablevision, Charter, now known as Spectrum, and GTel. “They made some significant dents in the list of unserved and underserved address,” F.
Michael Tucker, president and CEO of the Columbia County Economic Development Corporation, said Tuesday. A field study was also conducted in 2017 by the county Economic Development Corporation with the vendor MC Fiber Services to determine where broadband service was, or was not being provided, Tucker said. “Through that process of continually updating that list and working with the state, we have been able to r.