Community Corner
City Of Monroe Has Partial Solution For Oconee County's Internet Problems
Developers approached the city of Monroe for help, and county officials, worried about Caterpillar executives, pitched in to find solution.
Oconee County has found a fix to its Internet problems that bypasses the two commercial providers of Internet service in the county, AT&T and Charter.
The fix is not perfect–“not a silver bullet”–according to Brian Thompson, director of electric and telecommunications for the city of Monroe in neighboring Walton County.
But Thompson estimates the fix will provide Internet service to roughly 80 to 90 percent of the homes in Oconee County now without it.
Thompson is scheduled to present the solution to the Oconee County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday. His presentation is the fourth item on the agenda for the meeting, which starts at 7 p.m. at the Courthouse in Watkinsville.
For more on the story, go to Oconee County Observations.
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