There are lots of efforts currently underway to extend high speed internet service in Vermont: Comcast plans to add 220 miles of fiber-optic line to 53 communities this year. On town meeting day, voters in a number of central Vermont towns approved non-binding resolutions to join a regional effort to bring high-speed Internet to their homes, and there are numerous other efforts underway.
Governor Jim Douglas has pledged to make Vermont an e-state by the end of 2010. Bruce Edwards is business reporter for the Rutland Herald. He spoke with VPR’s Jane Lindholm about whether we’re on track to reach that goal and what it will take.