Leveraging fiber broadband expansion to ensure public safety has access to reliable and redundant communications capacity.Promoting local input and oversight in the direction of future use for publicly funded broadband infrastructure through empowered regional Communications Union Districts (CUDs) and.Facilitating competition and choice of multiple internet service providers at the majority of premises in the state.Ensuring that telecommunications systems are resilient, redundant, secure, and future-proof for commercial, consumer, and public safety needs.

Leveraging residential fiber deployments into better mobile voice coverage along key roadways and in small communities.

Bringing every currently unserved and underserved on-grid Vermont home access to 100/100 megabits per second (Mbps) broadband that can be scalable to faster speeds as demand warrants.Specifically, the Plan provides a roadmap to achieving the state’s most pressing telecommunications and broadband goals, including: The 365-page Plan provides an overview of the current state of telecommunications services and facilities in the state, current trends in usage and adoption, and recommendations for improving access to broadband services throughout Vermont. The Ten-Year Plan was developed in partnership with CTC Energy and Technology and Rural Innovations Strategies, Inc. Vermont Business Magazine The Vermont Department of Public Service issued the final draft of the 2021 Vermont Ten-Year Telecommunications Plan on Thursday.

Vermont DPS releases final draft of the Ten-Year Telecommunications Plan

Final draft 10 customer number