Broadband for all in thee years

The Brown County Connect Ohio committee got a dose of good news and bad news Tuesday. The good news is a new telecommunications company will be bringing broadband service to all areas in Ohio currently served by Verizon phone lines.
The bad news is, the service will not be fully operational until 2013.

Frontier Communications, a telecommunications company from Stamford, Conn., announced plans to purchase all of Verizon's land based phone lines in 14 states in May 2009. As part of their licensing agreement with the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, Frontier is required to make a commitment to bring broadband to their coverage areas in the state, according to Connect Ohio State Operations Manager Don Shirley...