The City of Superior now has the first publicly-owned, open-access broadband network in the state of Wisconsin. ConnectSuperior went live this week and is currently available to residents and businesses in the Central Superior neighborhood.
Superior’s open-access network is like a highway. The city owns and maintains the infrastructure, in this case fiber optic cables and lines. Then different companies, internet service providers, can use that to transport internet access to customers.
How can residents plug into new internet options? ConnectSuperior offers two different internet service providers: Advance Stream and Superion. The city expected to have 80 customers make the switch within the first year. But they have already surpassed that with close to 100 people joining just this first week.
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