Attending the press conference at the invitation of Senator King will be Susan P. Crawford, who served as President Barack Obama’s Special Assistant for Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy. She is the author of “Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age,” in which she suggests that high-speed Internet access in the U.S. is as essential as electricity, but is currently too slow and too expensive.
Thirty countries have faster Internet speeds than the U.S., and a recent study ranked Maine 49th out of 50 states for Internet access and quality. The new network in Rockport is a “gigabit per second” network, meaning it can transmit 1,000 megabits of data per second. It is also “symmetrical,” meaning a customer can upload data to the Internet just as fast as downloading. (In Maine, it is common for download speeds to be 15 megabits per second or less, and for upload speeds to be 1 megabit per second or less.)
What: Press Conference, first municipally-owned ultra-fast Internet network in Maine
When: Monday, August 11, 2014, 12:30 p.m
Where: Maine Media Workshop + College, Haas Building, 70 Camden Street, Rockport, Maine
Who: U.S. Senator Angus King, former Special Assistant to President Obama Susan B. Crawford, Town of Rockport, Maine Media College + Workshop, Network Maine, GWI
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