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WORCESTER — With many Worcester residents expressing their unhappiness with Charter/Spectrum, the challenges and potential plans to achieve municipal broadband and Verizon’s plans to install fiber in the city were topics of discussion during a City Council meeting Monday.
Ellen Cummings, regional director for external and state government affairs for Verizon, explained the telecommunication company’s current plans and took questions from the Urban Technologies, Innovation and Environment Committee.
In 2021, Verizon approached the city to let officials know the company planned to install a fiber to the premises network, a network where optical fiber is run directly onto the premises of customers.
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