A polar vortex blew through the U.S. earlier this month, and the bitter cold winds put a temporary halt to Point Broadband’s fiber optic cable installation.
Although they did not reach the Grand Traverse Lighthouse at the end of the Leelanau Peninsula by New Year’s as planned, Point Broadband is still determined to work through the snow and finish the network buildout north of Northport.
They plan to move south in the spring and mop up some areas in Elmwood and Bingham townships. The remaining portions of the project are geographically large, representing about 20% of the fiber network, but contain just a few hundred “unserved and underserved” potential customers.
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