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Article: New Muni Consortium Formed to Spur Expansion of Municipal Broadband Networks Nationwide; Consortium Dedicated to Helping Municipalities and Utilities Plan and Deploy Broadband.
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- March 10, 2003
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MINNEAPOLIS -- MINNEAPOLIS, March 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Optical Solutions Inc., the leader in fiber-optic broadband equipment solutions for the last mile, today announced it has formed the Muni Consortium. The new Consortium is a select group of telecommunications companies and consultants dedicated to helping municipalities and utilities successfully deploy ultra high broadband networks nationwide via passive optical networking (PON) technology.
"When we started planning the Borough of Kutztown's fiber-to-the-home deployment three years ago, we didn't know which companies out there in the marketplace truly had the industry experience and expertise to help us plan, ...