August 24, 2010
Broadband for America: "Maine Broadband Expansion Project Shows Importance of Building Up Infrastructure."
Penobscot Bay Press: "Maine Fiber Company of Portland, as part of the Three Ring Binder Project, has begun an initiative to install government-supported fiber optics to 'Community Anchor Institutions' along the Three Ring Binder route."
NetworkWorld.com: "Five billionth device about to plug into Internet."
July 29, 2010
WCSH 6 (video): "Broadband reaches out to rural areas in Maine."
WCSH 6 (article): "Broadband could be Maine's communication backbone."
July 23, 2010
Press Release: "Maine Fiber Company, Inc. in conjunction with the Maine Fiber Company Advisory Board and as part of the Three Ring Binder Project, has begun an initiative to install federally-supported fiber optics (internet connections) to Community Anchor Institutions ("CAI's") along the Three Ring Binder route."
Click here to download the release as a PDFJune 14, 2010
MFC President Joshua Broder provides a progress update at the NTIA's BroadbandUSA blog.
May 10, 2010
Maine Public Utilities Commission: "MPUC Grants Maine Fiber Petition to Provide Dark Fiber Service."
May 5, 2010
Bangor Daily News: "Delegation urges more broadband coverage; Rural business owners seek access to fast Internet."
April 15, 2010
Portland Press Herald: Editorial: "Our View: Recent moves bode well for broadband access."
April 9, 2010
Capital Weekly: "Three Ring Binder broadband steps toward unserved areas."
April 8, 2010
MPBN: "Bill Paves Way for Maine Broadband Project."
Bangor Daily News: "Bill Pushes 'Three-Ring Binder' Network Forward."
April 7, 2010
Press Release: "MAINE FIBER COMPANY'S THREE-RING BINDER RURAL BROADBAND PROJECT MOVES FORWARD WITH SUPPORT FROM MAINE GOVERNOR AND LEGISLATURE."
Click here to read the press release, or here to download a PDF copy.March 17, 2010
"State of the State" TV program: The Maine Center for Economic Policy devoted a full program called "Wiring Maine for Success" about moving forward with Maine Fiber Company's Three Ring Binder project -- and how it would help the state's economy.
Visit the program's site at the link above to download an audio copy of the program, or to find the local broadcast schedule on Time Warner Cable.
Machias Valley News: "Maine Fiber Touts Plan for Expanding Open Access Rural Broadband Network"
Broadbandreports.com: "Fairpoint Still Fighting Rural Maine Broadband Expansion"
Lightreading.com: "Maine Fiber Network Comes Under Fire"
The Quoddy Tides: "The Three Ring Binder project to bring expanded broadband access for service providers to Downeast Maine may be threatened if meetings between the Maine Fiber Company and Fairpoint are unsuccessful."
March 16, 2010
Portland Press Herald: "Portland vies to be Google's 'fiber city'"
March 15, 2010
NPR: "Will The National Broadband Plan Come Up Short?"
Read the article here, or listen to the broadcast here.
March 12, 2010
New York Times: "The Federal Communications Commission is proposing an ambitious 10-year plan that will reimagine the nation's media and technology priorities by establishing high-speed Internet as the country's dominant communication network."
March 4, 2010
Bangor Daily News: "Access and capacity. That's the essence of the protracted battle between FairPoint Communications and Maine Fiber Co. over the Three Ring Binder project that would bring broadband infrastructure to 1,100 miles of rural Maine, according to Maine Fiber's CEO."
Wired.com: The Wired Interview: FCC Chair Julius Genachowski on Broadband, Google and His iPhone
March 1, 2010
NPR: National Public Radio's Morning Edition program examines the issue of expanding access to high-speed Internet nationally -- and how some telecommunications companies are are fighting federal stimulus funding, like the $25.4 million won by Maine's Three Ring Binder project, because they do not want to provide open access to fiber. Click here to listen to the segment (4:52), or here to read the transcript.February 25, 2010
Press Release: "MAINE FIBER COMPANY'S 'THREE RING BINDER' RURAL BROADBAND PROJECT EARNS BROAD SUPPORT AT STATE LEGISLATIVE HEARING."
Click here to read the release, or here to download a PDF.February 18, 2010
Comms-express.com: "Fibre optic cables to improve broadband availability in Maine"
February 17, 2010
Press Release: "MAINE FIBER COMPANY INVITED TO THE WHITE HOUSE TODAY TO MEET WITH PRESIDENT OBAMA & HIGHLIGHT THE IMPORTANCE OF THE 'THREE RING BINDER.'"
Click here to download a PDF of the release.February 14, 2010
Maine Sunday Telegram: "High-speed Internet grant good public policy - Federally funded fiber lines create fair competition for small service providers."
February 10, 2010
MPBN: "New Company Formed to Develop High-Speed Fiber Optic Network."
Kennebec Journal: "Company formed to install fiber network."
Portland Press Herald: "Maine Fiber to install cable in rural broadband project"
MaineBiz: "New company to lead broadband project."
Associated Press: "Maine company to lay 1,100 miles of optic cable."
February 9, 2010
Press Release: "NEW MAINE COMPANY FORMED TO BUILD STATE AND FEDERALLY APROVED, HIGH CAPACITY, OPEN ACCESS RURAL BROADBAND NETWORK."
Click here to read the release, or here to download a PDF.
